This study discusses the issue of financial incentives for the Family Health Program (PSF) in Brazil, from the perspective of adapting the incentives to the need for expanding the PSF in large cities. We begin by analyzing the context in which the proposal for incentives was formulated and the reasons for emphasizing coverage of the PSF, and proceed to discuss the criterion for calculating the prevailing financial incentive, analyzing the extent to which it contemplates the needs of administrators in large cities. Finally, we indicate a range of possibilities for introducing new mies that raise the levei of payment by the Federal government per PSF team based either on a given number of teams implemented or an absolute number of individuais covered by the Program, while maintaining the current criteria for ali the municipalities that have still not reached this threshold.
Family Health Program; Financing Public Policies; Heaith in Large Cities