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January 2009, Vol 99, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 8
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.153791

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Recent Positive Developments in the Brazilian Health System

Mauricio L. Barreto, MD, PhD, MPH and Rosana Aquino, MD, PhD, MPH

Instituto de Saúde Coletiva Federal University of Bahia Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Figure 1

Brazil is a large country, with a population of almost 190 million. Despite its wide socioeconomic disparities, Brazil is classified as a middle-income country. A number of important political, economic, and social changes have taken place in recent decades in Brazil, including changes in population health. There has been a sharp decrease in infectious-disease mortality, and deaths from cardiovascular diseases and cancers now predominate. The major vaccine-preventable diseases have been eradicated or are disappearing. A massive income-transfer program has caused a decrease in the prevalence of child malnutrition, which we hope will soon be eliminated. Violence-related mortality has increased, however, . . . [Full Text]






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