Objectives To evaluate the impact of Brazil's recently implemented Family Health Program
(FHP), the largest primary health care programme in the world, on heart and�…

Objectives. We evaluated the effects of the Family Health Program (FHP), a strategy for
reorganization of primary health care at a nationwide level in Brazil, on infant mortality at a�…

Background Vital information, despite of being an important public health instrument for
planning and evaluation, in most of the developing countries have still low quality and�…

Background Expanding delivery of primary healthcare to urban poor populations is a priority
in many low-and middle-income countries. This remains a key challenge in Brazil despite�…

Abstract Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is one of the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving UHC will require strong health systems to promote�…

This article assesses the effects of an integrated community-based primary care program
(Brazil's Family Health Program, known as the PSF) on microregional variations in infant�…

In 1994 Brazil launched what has since become the world's largest community-based
primary health care program. Under the Family Health Program, teams consisting of at least�…

Background Brazil has the largest public health-system in the world, with 120 million people
covered by its free primary care services. The Family Health Strategy (FHS) is the main�…

Background Universal health coverage (UHC) can play an important role in achieving
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10, which addresses reducing inequalities, but little�…

Objective: To use publicly available secondary data to assess the impact of Brazil's Family
Health Program on state level infant mortality rates (IMR) during the 1990s. Design�…