Making medicine for the poor: Primary health care interpretations in Pelotas, Brazil

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-143

  Behague D P ^a,b   Goncalves H ^a   Dias Da Costa, J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Brazil; Community participation; Ethnography; Primary health care; Social inequality; Social power

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 0036267016     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/17.2.131     Document Type: Review

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