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the state. Since then, Brazil has adopted a policy regime that combines both neoliberal policies - associated with those … outcomes, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, have improved significantly. What steps did Brazil take to achieve … agent in inducing development in Brazil opens a window of opportunity to create a virtuous complementarity between health …
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Health care, including access to medicines, is granted as a citizen's right by the Brazilian Constitution through a national health system called Unified Health System (SUS). The Pharmaceutical Care Programmes of SUS are, quite often, the only way a large part of the population has to obtain...
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Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of … in Brazil despite universal coverage using a nationally representative sample of over 48,000 households. Additional …
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) health services across municipios (counties) in Brazil, and on the probability that uninsured individuals who require medical …
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adopted in the public health system in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach - As a research method, this paper opts for a case … out that the obstacles identified in Brazil are the same as those faced by high-income countries such as regulation, lack … incorporate these new technologies, but only a few focuses on low or middle-income countries such as Brazil. …
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We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …
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This report is a case study analyzing key issues--coverage, equity, sustainability--faced by the Brazilian health system in the state of Bahia, in the context of national reforms geared to the decentralization of health care. Thus, the report examines the instruments and the incentives in the...
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We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal …
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Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of … in Brazil despite universal coverage using a nationally representative sample of over 48,000 households. Additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461589
explores these distinct patterns of clientelism in the context of healthcare and female sterilization in Brazil …
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