Brazil's National Program for Improving Primary Care Access and Quality (PMAQ)

Despite some remarkable achievements, there are several challenges facing Brazil's Family Health Strategy (FHS), including expanding access to primary care and improving its quality. These concerns motivated the development of the National Program for Improving Primary Care Access and Quality (PMAQ). Although voluntary, the program now includes nearly 39 000 FHS teams in the country and has led to a near doubling of the federal investment in primary care in its first 2 rounds. In this article, we introduce the PMAQ and advance several recommendations to ensure that it continues to improve primary care access and quality in Brazil.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  The journal of ambulatory care management

• Publication date

  2017-03-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/JAC.0000000000000189PMID 28252498PMCID 5338882
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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