Public Management

This study analyzes the spending of Brazilian municipalities on health using an approach based on computational intelligence. The study was characterized by a quantitative and documentary database, and 117 municipalities with an average population between 2004 and 2019 of more than 100,000 inhabitants were analyzed. The data was obtained from the Brazilian Finance database (Finbra) (National Treasury Secretariat) and processed and adjusted for inflation. The main technique used was cluster analysis via R software, version 3.3.3.