Patients' perceptions on the performance of a local health system to eliminate leprosy,Paraná State, Brazil.

• Main Authors: Flávia Meneguetti Pieri (Author), Michelle Mosna Touso (Author), Ludmila Barbosa Bandeira Rodrigues (Author), Mellina Yamamura (Author), Ione Carvalho Pinto (Author), Elma Mathias Dessunti (Author), Juliane de Almeida Crispim (Author), Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos (Author), Luiz Henrique Arroyo (Author), Marcelino Santos Neto (Author), Maria Concebida da Cunha Garcia (Author), Marcela Paschoal Popolin (Author), Tatiane Ramos dos Santos Silveira (Author), Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In Brazil, leprosy has been listed among the health priorities since 2006, in a plan known as the "Pact for life" (Pacto pela Vida). It is the sole country on the American continent that has not reached the global goal of disease elimination. Local health systems face many challenges to ac...