Table 1.

Proportion of projects approved and amount of resources allocated by the Ministry of Health and partners in the decentralized PPSUS program and academic degrees related to the projects, according to the geographic region, Brazil, 2004-2009.

Region	Number of PPSUS projects	Amount invested in PPSUS (U$ millions)	Proportion of Master + Doctor degrees (%)	Proportion of the Brazilian population (%)
Midwest	152	3.9	8.1	7.3
Northeast	581	14.3	32.1	28.0
North	236	9.8	7.6	8.0
Southeast	459	36.8	28.9	42.3
South	347	10.3	23.3	14.4
Total	1,775	75.1	100.0	100.0

Source: data summaries were calculated by the authors based on information taken from: http://www.saude.gov.br/sisct, and http://www.saude.gov.br/pesquisasaude, captured on Jan 21, 2011.