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Home Care and Family Health Care Programs: A Reality in the Brazilian Health Care System

State University of Rio de Janeiro

Gertrudes Teixeira Lopes, PhD, RN

The article provides an overview of the Brazilian health care system regarding home care and family health care programs. It poses an historical-critical reflection about those modalities of health care that have been offered to the Brazilian population according to public and private policies. It compares and contrasts the Brazilian home care and family health care programs in relation to their perspectives of increasing access and providing quality care to people.

Key Words: family health care • home care • Brazilian health care system

Home Health Care Management & Practice, Vol. 15, No. 5, 375-381 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1084822303252399


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