Brazil: Revitalizing Primary Health Care but Continuing Wide Inequalities

Introduction
Colonial history
The political and economic context of health inequalities
The revitalisation of PHC and the struggle for democratic rights
AIDS HIV and access to essential medicines

Reading

PAHO (2003) "Brazil: Health situation analysis and trends summary."

Lobato and Burlandy (2000). Chapter 4. The context and process of health care reform in Brazil. in Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. S. Fleury, S. Belmartino and E. Baris, IDRC Books Online: 292.

Lobato, L. (2000). Chapter 5. Reorganising the health care system in Brazil. Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. S. Fleury, S. Belmartino and E. Baris, IDRC Books Online: 292.

CPTech Brazil page on Access to Essential Medicines

UNICAMP and NEPP (2004). The decentralisation of the public health care system in Brazil: assessment and perspectives, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and Centre for Public Policy Studies (NEPP).

Naércio Menezes-Filho and Lígia Vasconcellos (2007) Chapter 9. Human Capital, Inequality, and Pro-Poor Growth in Brazil. in Besley and Cord (Editors) (2007). Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences. Washington DC, The World Bank, Palgrave Macmillan.

Presentations // Apresentações

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