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- Published on: 24 August 2018
- Published on: 24 August 2018Brazilian health system: the turnaround goes beyond resilience
Massuda and colleagues have recently published at BMJ Global Health a paper entitled “The Brazilian health system at crossroads: progress, crisis and resilience” describing the Brazilian health system and its challenges in health system financing, coverage, resource allocation and the impact over the regional disparities in access to healthcare services and health outcomes.
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Brazil is a large country with an estimated population of approximately 209 million inhabitants. The Universal Health Coverage provided by Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) is a constitutional right of every citizen. According to the National Supplementary Health Agency (ANS) in May 2018 only 22.7% of Brazilians had private insurance plans, with a 12% decrease in relative numbers during the last 30 months due to the local political and economic crisis [1].
Every two years the Brazilian National Cancer Institute generates data on cancer. According to the last publication 600,000 new cases are expected for 2018 [2]. Currently cancer is the second most common cause of death in Brazil [2].
Since the middle of the last century, the scientific understanding of cancer began to rise. This enabled the development of novel therapeutic interventions, such as new surgical techniques, modern radiotherapy, cytotoxic agents and more recently, targeted therapy and immunotherapy, giving place to a growing number of oncological interventions to combat cancer, improving quality of life, overall survi...Conflict of Interest:
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