Vol. 50 No. especial 3 jun (2026): Evaluation, analysis and auditing of health policies

Presentation of the special issue ‘Evaluation, analysis and auditing of health policies’: “In universal and complex systems such as the SUS, it is necessary to understand how public problems are defined, how priorities are established, how programs are implemented, what effects they produce, and how they can be corrected. At this level, the articulation among policy analysis, evaluation, and auditing is affirmed. […] It is precisely at the intersection between these three fields that the relevance of this special issue of ‘Health in Debate’ […]”.

Topics covered: Institutional changes and innovations in internal auditing of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS); Social participation in the regulation of electronic cigarettes in Brazil; The Argentine government’s response to COVID-19; The governmental internal audit of the Ministry of Health to the governance of federal hospitals and institutes in Rio de Janeiro; Health surveillance and Black population health; Primary Health Care medicines in Brazilian capitals; Audit in the Annual Management Report and in the opinion of the Health Council; Cancer policy and dependency; Health expenditures in the SUS; SUS internal audit in achieving the 2030 Agenda; Priority criteria in Brazil’s Farmácia Popular Program in relation to social vulnerability and the Mais Médicos Program; Monitoring and Evaluation in the state management of the SUS in Rio Grande do Sul; Internal audit of the SUS and the commitment to improving the quality and effectiveness of health policies; Governance and responsiveness: Implications for the context of public policies; Policy analysis: From absolute rationality to the centrality of institutions; Public policies, complementarity, and social transformation; Health inequity indicators for policy formulation, monitoring, and evaluation; Governance, evaluation, auditing, and corruption control; Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in Primary Health Care; The new specialized care policy: A change in the federative role of the Ministry of Health?; The Internal Audit Capability Model at DenaSUS; Monitoring internal audit recommendations as a driver of transformation in the Brazilian Unified Health System; Critical review of the book ‘50 años de políticas de salud’ by Ginés González García; Interview with Wesley Matheus da Silva about public policy monitoring and evaluation in Brazil’s federal government.