Impact of primary health care on mortality from heart and cerebrovascular diseases in Brazil: a nationwide analysis of longitudinal data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the impact of Brazil's recently implemented Family Health Program (FHP), the largest primary health care programme in the world, on heart and cerebrovascular disease mortality across Brazil from 2000 to 2009.

Design

Ecological longitudinal design, evaluating the impact of FHP using negative binomial regression models for panel data with fixed effects specifications.

Setting

Nationwide analysis of data from Brazilian municipalities covering the period from 2000 to 2009.

Data sources

1622 Brazilian municipalities with vital statistics of adequate quality.

Main outcome measures

The annual FHP coverage and the average FHP coverage in previous years were used as main independent variables and classified as none (0%), incipient (<30%), i

SUBMITTER: Rasella D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4080829 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature