Table 2.

Projects financed and amount invested by the Ministry of Health and partners according to type of call for proposals or mode of selection, Brazil, 2004-2009.

Description	Type of call for proposals or mode of selection
	Decentralized calls (PPSUS)	National calls for proposals	Direct contract of strategic projects	TOTAL
Number of calls for proposals (n)	77	58	77	212
Number of projects financed (n)	1,775	1,705	106	3,586
Resource invested (U$)	75 million	297 million	47 million	419 million
Resource/project invested (U$)	42 thousand	174 thousand	443 thousand	117 thousand

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.