The Programa Mais Medicos (PMM) is a national strategy to increase the numbers of Brazilian trained doctors entering primary care and is possibly the most significant human resource intervention in Latin America in recent years. From an English persp...
In small towns, which are generally located in more isolated geographic areas, combined with situations of greater social and economic vulnerability, the shortage of doctors is a constant problem. The aim of this study was to identify the participati...
The Project More Physicians (PMM) aims to expand the access to health providing physicians, investments in health units structuring, integration for family health care. The Vale do Ribeira contains 25 cities; it is the most vulnerable region of the S...
Inequalities in access to health services affected by the shortage and poor geographical distribution of health professionals have been iden those tified as a challenge for the country. This paper makes analysis of the geographic distribution of prof...
Although 224 professionals hired by the Project More Doctors in Brazil (PMMB) to strengthen the National Primary Care Policy (BANP) of 104 municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso, have found significant problems in relation to the work process, im...
This article aims to propose an adaptation of the methodology used by Starfield and Shy (2002) to assess the quality of health care in the municipalities which joined the Program More Doctors. In 2014, municipalities were grouped into three groups ac...
Strategy (FHS) in areas work doctors of the project. Users positively see the MMBP because it have expanded access to health care, although the remaining of organizational and technical barriers that limit the use of services. The performance of for...
Two years after the implementation of the Program More Doctors in our country, the study of its viability is made necessary. This research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of care provided in primary health care,the perspective of health professio...
