We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money …-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall …, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …

This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills …