More Doctors Program: health work process and socioeconomic indicators

Primary Health Care in Brazil and the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program: an analysis of production indicators.

This study analyzes the number of medical appointments and referrals performed in primary health care in Brazil focusing on the Mais Médicos Program (More Doctors Program). It is a cross-sectional study on the work of physicians included, or not, to the Mais Médicos Program in 2014. Based on validation protocols, a unified database was created from two health information system databases - SIAB...

Beyond the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program.

This article situates the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program (PMM) at a historical point between the “continuation of consolidation” and the “breaking with tradition” of primary healthcare policies in Brazil. The authors present “changes and qualitative differences” attributed to the program, as well as the challenges it has faced and its limitations. The model chosen by countries to identify ...

Socioeconomic Indicators That Matter for Population Health

Increasing research and policy attention is being given to how the socioeconomic environment influences health. This article discusses potential indicators or metrics regarding the socioeconomic environment that could play a role in an incentive-based system for population health. Given the state of the research regarding the influence of socioeconomic contextual variables on health outcomes, t...

Doctors and Their Work

thoughtfulness and judgment; the author's experience is on almost every page, and as Mr. Carter has been in our ranks for more than half a century, and has, during that time, had excellent opportunities of forming opinions on these matters, we may consider his advice and conclusions well worth having. There is very little in the book that any of us would disagree with, for on any question about...

More Doctors, More Problems: Exploring Brazil’s Mais Médicos Program and the Legal Challenges it has Provoked