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Primary health care policies: investigation on morbidity

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  • Fabiana Fontes Rocha
  • Marislei Nishijima
  • Sandro Garcia Duarte Peixoto

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the impact of primary health care policies on infant morbidity and mortality, by using as health indicators the number of infant hospitalizations and infant mortality rates, respectively, in Brazilian cities. Our sample comprises towns and cities in the South-East of the country, where there is some controversy about the impact of the Family Health Program on mortality for the 1999--2003 period. We found that the preventive health care model did achieve its goal of reducing hospitalizations and mortality rates in municipalities without hospitals, and to some extent, achieved its goal in municipalities with hospitals.

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  • Fabiana Fontes Rocha & Marislei Nishijima & Sandro Garcia Duarte Peixoto, 2013. "Primary health care policies: investigation on morbidity," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(11), pages 1046-1051, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:20:y:2013:i:11:p:1046-1051
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2013.774456
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    1. Rita Bastião & Nuno de Sousa Pereira, 2020. "Performance in the Delivery of Primary Health Care Services: A Longitudinal Analysis," CEF.UP Working Papers 2002, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
    2. Nishijima, Marislei & Sarti, Flavia Mori & Canuto, Otaviano, 2020. "Does the Brazilian policy for oil revenues distribution foster investment in human capital?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    3. Mayara Lisboa Bastos & Dick Menzies & Thomas Hone & Kianoush Dehghani & Anete Trajman, 2017. "The impact of the Brazilian family health on selected primary care sensitive conditions: A systematic review," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(8), pages 1-14, August.

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