Health conditions and health policy in Brazil: an assessment of recent decades
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This article describes the health situation of Brazil's population, the Brazilian health system, and their implication for the development process. Although there were substantial improvements in the last decades, Brazil still has an epidemiological pattern where infectious and parasitic diseases, due to lack of adequate sanitary infrastructure, are still prevalent. This pattern is closely associated with Brazil's highly concentrated income distribution. While the middle and upper income classes can buy health plans and use the type of health care which is similar to that used in advanced industrial countries, the urban poor and the rural population have limited access to public health services, with are mostly quite precarious.
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