Call for government to cut bowel cancer deaths by 60% in the next 13 years
The number of deaths from bowel cancer could be cut by 60% by 2025 if the government acts on recommendations made in a report, a charity has claimed. ::: ::: Bowel Cancer UK has set out a plan, which, it claims, could result in an extra 2500 people with bowel cancer a year surviving for at least five years after diagnosis by 2025. ::: ::: Changes that the report recommends include: encouraging a greater uptake in screening, which is currently only 50%, earlier and high quality diagnosis with increased capacity—colonoscopy capacity should be more than doubled over the next five years to cope with growing demand due in part to an ageing population—and improved and more coordinated care for …
This article discusses issues related to funding and resource allocation in the SUS, in the context of two different projects policies. The study analyzed health spending in Brazil, in the period 1995 to 2012, compared to international spending, the Gross Domestic Product and Current Federal Gross Revenue. In the analysis, we compared the commitments made to the SUS in the administrations of Presidents FHC, Lula and Dilma. It was observed that, in relation to the behaviour of health spending, the Federal Governments of the Workers' Party did not differ from the Governments of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. The profile of health spending didn't realize the dream of health reform in the years 1980.