Emergency Care Gap in Brazil: Geographical Accessibility as a Proxy of Response Capacity to Tackle COVID-19

• Main Authors: Lincoln Luís Silva (Author), Amanda de Carvalho Dutra (Author), Luciano de Andrade (Author), Pedro Henrique Iora (Author), Guilherme Luiz Rodrigues Ramajo (Author), Iago Amado Peres Gualda (Author), João Felipe Hermann Costa Scheidt (Author), Pedro Vasconcelos Maia do Amaral (Author), Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha (Author), Catherine Ann Staton (Author), João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci (Author), Rosilene Fressatti Cardoso (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has claimed thousands of lives worldwide and disrupted the health system in many countries. As the national emergency care capacity is a crucial part of the COVID-19 response, we evaluated the Brazilian Health Care System response preparedness again...