Reducing Disparities by Restructuring Health Care: Brazil's Family Health System Shows the Way!

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Editorial

Toni P Miles. Am J Public Health. 2021 May.

. 2021 May;111(5):762-764.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306245.

¹ Toni P. Miles is with the Epidemiology Department, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens.

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Family Health Strategy, Primary Health Care, and Social Inequalities in Mortality Among Older Adults in Bagé, Southern Brazil.
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