%0 Journal Article %T Conceitos de regula£¿£¿o em sa¨²de no Brasil %A Oliveira %A Robson Rocha de %A Elias %A Paulo Eduardo Mangeon %J Revista de Sa¨²de P¨²blica %D 2012 %I Universidade de S?o Paulo %R 10.1590/S0034-89102012000300020 %X the healthcare regulatory concepts used in brazilian scientific publications on healthcare management were reviewed. a typo-logical classification for regulatory concepts was developed from the most current ideas in five disciplines: life sciences, law, economics, sociology and political science. four ideas stood out: control, balance, adaptation and direction, with greatest emphasis on the technical nature of regulation. the political nature of regulation was secondary. it was considered that dis-cussion of healthcare regulatory concepts was connected with comprehension of the role that the state plays in this sector. de-finition of the forms of state intervention is the key convergence point between the different ways of conceptualizing healthcare regulation. %K health care coordination and monitoring %K health law %K health public policy %K health systems %K health management %K unified health system %K review. %U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-89102012000300020&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en