Twenty years of health system reform in Brazil : an assessment of the Sistema Único de Saúde / Michele Gragnolati, Magnus Lindelöw, Bernard Couttolenc.

It has been over twenty years since the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System or SUS) was formally established by the 1988 Constitution. The impetus for the SUS came in part from rising costs and a crisis in the social security system that preceded the reforms, but also from a broa...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors:	Gragnolati, Michele, 1968- (Author), Lindelöw, Magnus (Author), Couttolenc, Bernard (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, ©2013.
Series:	Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
Subjects:	Sistema Único de Saúde (Brazil) Public health administration > Brazil. Medical care > Brazil. Health care reform > Brazil. Health care reform. Medical care. Public health administration. Brazil. History.