Categorization of beneficiaries
Categorization of beneficiaries creates inequalities through hindering the ability of Brazilian citizens to access healthcare services. Brazil faces many huge demands for the implementation of good healthcare public policies due to the numerous healthcare inequalities due to lack of affordable and accessible healthcare services. The nation has a complex disease profile through which “diseases of poverty” are set aside and combined with other prevalent diseases such as heart disease, obesity, and chronic diseases (Nunes & Lotta, 2019). Some of these poverty diseases include parasitic infections and mosquito-borne diseases. While the nation’s health system uneasily balances between goals of equity and universality in access, it needs policies, which regard heterogeneity alongside racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, and territorial lines (Nunes & Lotta, 2019). The categorizations limit access to healthcare, which the vulnerable and remote populations in Brazil lack. Hence, vulnerability and poverty play a major role in health care access in Brazil as these two actors influence the access these individuals have to resources, besides, influencing health outcomes at the community level. Moreover, categorization creates inaccessibility through forcing health care workers in Brazil to make decisions concerning resource allocations without receiving adequate training, thus, their reliance on personal judgments concerning the merits of Brazilian citizens.