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Can mothers rely on the Brazilian health system for their deliveries? An assessment of use of the public system and out-of-pocket expenditure in the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study, Brazil

BACKGROUND: In a country where comprehensive free health care is provided via a public health system (SUS), an unexpected high frequency of catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure has been described. We studied how deliveries were financed among mothers of a birth cohort and whether they were an impo...

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Autores principales: Barros, Aluísio JD, Santos, Iná S, Bertoldi, Andréa D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2276487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18366672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-57