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Programa Saúde da Familia - Family Health Program

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Federal Government
Legal Status: 
State/government
Year Launched: 
1994
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Government

Scale

Replication: 
The method developed by the Ministry of Health has been replicated in all the Brazilian Territory.
Summary: 

The Program was created by the Brazilian Government in 1994, as a review of Social Assistance programs. The government places a team of professionals from different specialties in public primary health care units, which are responsible for the development of a specific number of families in that neighborhood. Teams work with health promotion, prevention, recovery, disease rehabilitation, and community health.

Key program components: 

The program provides families with support in different spheres: medical, educational and social. The goal is to provide support to families and help their development, and take the burden of medical treatment from public hospitals- by fomenting prevention, sanitation and health promotion.

Patients who visit primary health care units have their familial and economic profile built. The agents working at this unit, may take that family for assistance, following the health and economic developments of the family. Doctors can be sent to home visit, or patients are assigned the proper care.

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