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