... of Goiania (Brazil): a challenging organizational context in primary care (PHC). Interviews were carried out with 25 frontliners – managers, doctors, nurses and community health workers. Data were thematically and hierarchically analysed according to theoretical concepts such as policy knowledge, policy...

...; and some introduced insurance and competition. For example Brazil created a national health system, the Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS – Unified Health System), and Colombia introduced a social health insurance scheme based on the principles of managed competition. Some countries have constructed benefits...

.../approach Reported in this paper is research in healthcare organisations in Brazil and Australia that use a multidisciplinary model of care delivery which test these relationships. Findings The paper's findings indicate that in the Brazilian case learning has to do with the formal acquisition...

...Joao Ausse; Mayeh A. Omar; Silvia Mamede; Marinila Calderaro Munguba Mecedo; Augusto Pinto; Jocileide Sales Campos Discusses the national health information system in Brazil which,until very recently, consisted of two main structures of health services with a dichotomy between curative...