Mortality associated with alternative policy options for primary care and the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program in Brazil: forecasting future scenarios

• Main Authors: Gabriel Vivas Francesconi (Author), Renato Tasca (Author), Sanjay Basu (Author), Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha (Author), Davide Rasella (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Pan American Health Organization, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective. To forecast the impact of alternative scenarios of coverage changes in Brazil's Family Health Strategy (Estratégia Saúde da Família) (ESF)-due to fiscal austerity measures and to the end of the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program (PMM)-on overall under-5 mortality rates (U5MRs) a...