A Right to Health : Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil /

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"In 1988, a new health-care system, the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health Care System or SUS) was formally established in Brazil. The system was intended, among other goals, to provide universal access to health-care services and to redefine health as a citizen's right and a duty of...

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Main Author: Jerome, Jessica Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Medical policy.
Medical care.
Health care reform.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Prestation de soins.
Politique sanitaire > Bresil > Histoire.
Services de sante > Reforme > Bresil > Histoire.
Universal Health Insurance
Health Policy > history
Delivery of Health Care
Health Care Reform > history
Social medicine > Brazil.
Medical policy > Brazil > History.
Medical care > Brazil.
Health care reform > Brazil > History.
Brazil.
Brazil
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pirambu : historical and contemporary accounts of citizenship in a favela
  • A history of welfare and the poor in Ceará
  • Democratizing health care : health councils in Pirambu
  • Prescribing knowledge : farmácia viva and the rationalization of traditional medicine
  • Favors, rights, and the management of illness
  • Public and private medical care for a new generation in Pirambu
  • Conclusion : a politics of health.

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