Health in Brazil
Launched in Brasília May 9, 2011
Brazil has made significant improvements in maternal and child health, emergency care, and in reducing the burden of infectious diseases. But the news is not all good. The country continues to have a burden of injury mortality that is different from other countries due to the large number of murders, especially using firearms. Obesity levels are increasing and caesarean section rates are the highest in the world.
Brazil now has the opportunity to move closer towards its ultimate goal of universal, equitable, and sustainable health care as enshrined in the 1988 Constitution. To highlight this opportunity, The Lancet is publishing a Series of six papers that critically examine what the country’s policies have achieved and where future challenges lie. As Cesar Victora and colleagues conclude in the final paper of the Series: "the challenge is ultimately political, requiring continuous engagement by Brazilian society as a whole to secure the right to health for all Brazilian people."
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Brazil’s health-care reform: social movements and civil society
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Series Papers
The Brazilian health system: history, advances, and challenges
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Maternal and child health in Brazil: progress and challenges
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Successes and failures in the control of infectious diseases in Brazil: social and environmental context, policies, interventions, and research needs
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Chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil: burden and current challenges
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Violence and injuries in Brazil: the effect, progress made, and challenges ahead
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Health conditions and health-policy innovations in Brazil: the way forward
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