Rollout of community-based family health strategy (programa de saude de familia) is associated with large reductions in neonatal mortality in São Paulo, Brazil

Rationale: Several recent studies suggest that Brazil’s Estratégia Saude de Familia (Family Health Strategy-FHS) has contributed to declines in mortality at the national and regional level. Comparatively little is known whether this approach is effective in urban populations with relatively easy acc...

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Main Authors: Alexandra Brentani, Sandra Josefina Ferraz Ellero Grisi, Mauro T. Taniguchi, Ana Paula Scoleze Ferrer, Maria Lúcia de Moraes Bourroul, Günther Fink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827316000021