Covid-19 is causing the collapse of Brazil’s national health service

Brazil is one of the few countries in the Americas that has free universal healthcare. But years of neglect and the pandemic have left the system on the verge of collapse, writes Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade.

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ (Online) 2020-07, Vol.370, p.m3032-m3032
1. Verfasser:	de Oliveira Andrade, Rodrigo
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Betacoronavirus - isolation & purification Brazil - epidemiology Coronavirus Infections - economics Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology Coronavirus Infections - therapy Coronavirus Infections - virology Coronaviruses Cost of Illness COVID-19 Disease transmission Ethnicity Health care policy Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data Health Expenditures - trends Health Resources - economics Health Resources - statistics & numerical data Health Resources - trends Health services Healthcare Disparities - economics Healthcare Disparities - statistics & numerical data Healthcare Disparities - trends Humans Medical research Pandemics Pandemics - economics Physicians Pneumonia, Viral - economics Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology Pneumonia, Viral - therapy Pneumonia, Viral - virology Primary Health Care - economics Primary Health Care - statistics & numerical data Primary Health Care - trends Public health SARS-CoV-2 State Medicine - economics State Medicine - statistics & numerical data State Medicine - trends Workforce - economics Workforce - statistics & numerical data Workforce - trends
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Zusammenfassung:	Brazil is one of the few countries in the Americas that has free universal healthcare. But years of neglect and the pandemic have left the system on the verge of collapse, writes Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade.
ISSN:	1756-1833 1756-1833
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.m3032