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Author Gragnolati, Michele, 1968- author.

Title Twenty years of health system reform in Brazil : an assessment of the Sistema Único de Saúde / Michele Gragnolati, Magnus Lindelöw, Bernard Couttolenc
Published Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 112 pages) : color illustrations
Series Directions in development. Human development
Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
Contents Have the SUS reforms transformed the Brazilian health system? -- Have the SUS reforms led to better outcomes?
Summary It has been over twenty years since the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System or SUS) was formally established by the 1988 Constitution. The impetus for the SUS came in part from rising costs and a crisis in the social security system that preceded the reforms, but also from a broad-based political movement calling for democratization and improved social rights. Building on reforms that started in the 1980s, the SUS was based on three overarching principles: (i) universal access to health services, with health defined as a citizen's right and an obligation of the state; (ii) equality of access to health care; and (iii) integrality (comprehensiveness) and continuity of care; along with several other guiding ideas, including decentralization, increased participation, and evidence-based prioritization. Looks at how key building blocks of Brazil's health system have changed over time and then moves on to review performance in terms of intermediate and final outcomes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Sistema Único de Saúde (Brazil)
SUBJECT Sistema Único de Saúde (Brazil)
Sistema Único de Saúde (Brazil) fast
Subject Public health administration -- Brazil
Medical care -- Brazil
Health care reform -- Brazil
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Health care reform
Medical care
Public health administration
SUBJECT Brazil
Subject Brazil
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lindelöw, Magnus, author.
Couttolenc, Bernard, author.
World Bank, issuing body.
ISBN 9780821399323
0821399322