| Medicines |
Availability of various medications, information on chloroquine, ivermectin, etc |
| Accountability |
Expenses, resource applications, authorities’ agenda, authorities’ salaries, transfers of funds, financing of various campaigns by digital influencers |
| Water and soil |
Information on soil and water quality, basic sanitation, and related transmissible diseases |
| Not specified |
Any and all requests in which there was no specification of the database or the subject requested by the citizen |
| Pandemic |
Data related to COVID-19: hospitalizations, deaths from the disease, telephone contacts with the population to address the issue, contacts received from the population to resolve doubts about the disease, obtaining quick tests for diagnosing the disease, as well as requests seeking information about the severe acute respiratory syndrome |
| Chemical contaminants |
Data on poisoning by pesticide contaminants |
| Environmental health |
Data on cases of diseases and conditions caused by the environment |
| Nutrition |
Requests regarding food, access to adequate food, malnutrition, and related issues |
| Hospital procedures |
Medical procedures, bureaucratic procedures in the health area, and exams |
| Telemedicine |
Data referring to online medical consultations carried out in the country |
| Mortality |
Adult mortality, health professionals coping with COVID-19, infant mortality |
| Hospital resources |
Requests of accounting information regarding hospital equipment and personal protective equipment, among others |
| Morbidity |
Inquiries about the rate of carriers of a disease relative to the total population in a given location at a given time and about diseases in specific locations generally |
| Epidemiological data |
Requests regarding outbreaks of diseases such as yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, zika virus, occurrences of microcephaly, Creutzfedldt-Jakob disease, research in the area of epidemiology, epidemiological data from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases, epidemiological bulletins, among others |
| Human resources |
Data on the composition of teams in health establishments, the staff of the Ministry of Health, and the staff’s CV |
| Health data |
Requests referring to information from health databases belonging (or not) to the Ministry of Health, research data in the health area, such as the hospital census, etc |
| Transplant list |
Information on the status of the transplant list in Brazil |
| Indigenous health |
Information on indigenous health during the coronavirus pandemic, diseases that affect indigenous populations, mental health, equipment for serving the population, and professionals working with this public, among others |
| Mental health |
Data on self-inflicted violence, cases of burnout syndrome, etc |
| Vaccination |
Data on testing and application of vaccines throughout the national territory, including vaccines against the coronavirus, yellow fever, spending on vaccination campaigns, etc |
| National Healthcare System (SUS) |
Requests that require databases of competence of the Unified Health System, data regarding the system |
| Accidents |
Requests about accidents of different causes and natures |
| Work health |
Information relating to accidents at work, mental health, etc |
| Research |
Data regarding scientific research funding |
| Violence |
Data on sexual, domestic and/or other violence |
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Source: Elaborated by the authors. Adapted from