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0146/2015 - Mais Medicos Program: an effective action to reduce health inequities in Brazil
Programa Mais Médicos: uma ação efetiva para reduzir iniquidades em saúde

Author:

• Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos - santos, lmp - Brasilia, DF - UNB, Saúde Coletiva, Chefe do Departamento Braslia, Distrito Federal, Brazil - <leopac@unb.br>

Co-author(s):

• Sábado Nicolau Girardi - Girardi, Sábado Nicolau - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Estação de Pesquisa de Sinais de Mercado, Coordenador - <sabadogirardi@gmail.com>
• Ana Maria Costa - Costa, Ana Maria - CEBES, Presidente Brasília, DF, Brazil Escola Superior de Ciências da Saúde do Distrito Federal, Professora - <dotorana@gmail.com>

Thematic Area:

Políticas em Saúde

Abstract:

The Program More Doctors aims to decrease the shortage of physicians and reduce the regional health disparities and involves three main strategies: i) professional qualification, by increasing the number of undergraduate students at Medical Schools under new curriculum guidelines; ii) investments in the (re)construction of Primary Healthcare Units; iii) provision of Brazilian and foreign medical doctors. Until July 2014, the Program made the provision of 14,462 physicians to 3,785 municipalities with vulnerable areas. Evidence indicates a 53% reduction in the number of municipalities with physicians’ shortage; in the North, 91% of the municipalities with physicians’ shortage have been provisioned, with almost five physicians per municipality, on average. The professionals’ integration in the Family Health Teams has strengthened and expanded the capacity of intervention, particularly in the context of adopting a healthcare model that encompasses different demands of health promotion, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders, to face the challenge of the double burden of disease. The population is affected by obesity and non-communicable chronic diseases, alongside with infection, parasitic diseases and malnutrition remaining. The people of cities, rural areas and forests want more doctors, health perspectives and more social justice.

Keywords:

Program More Doctors Human resources Primary Health Care

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santos, lmp, Girardi, Sábado Nicolau, Costa, Ana Maria. Mais Medicos Program: an effective action to reduce health inequities in Brazil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2015/Aug). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/mais-medicos-program-an-effective-action-to-reduce-health-inequities-in-brazil/15215?id=15215



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