Twenty Years of Health System Reform in Brazil: An Assessment of the Sistema Único de Saúde

by Bernard Couttolenc, Michele Gragnolati, Magnus Lindelow

It has been over twenty years since the Brazilian Sistema nico de Sa de (Unified Health System or SUS) was formally established by the 1988 Constitution. The impetus for the SUS came in part from rising costs and a crisis in the social security system that preceded the reforms, but also from a broad-based political movement calling for democratization and improved social rights. Building on reforms that started in the 1980s, the SUS was based on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821398431
• ISBN13: 9780821398432
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"