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Family Health Strategy, private health care, and inequalities in access to mammography in Brazil

Objective To evaluate the association between access to mammography and coverage by private health insurance or by the public healthcare system through the Family Health Strategy (FHS). Method An ecological study was performed with data obtained from the Unified Health System Data Processing Department (DATASUS). Time trends were analyzed using the Prais-Winsten method, having the […]
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Spatial risk of tuberculosis mortality and social vulnerability in Northeast Brazil

Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common infectious disease in the world. The authors aimed to analyze the spatial risk of tuberculosis mortality and to verify associations in high-risk areas with social vulnerability. They performed an ecological study. In addition, they used scan statistic to detect areas at risk, and the Bivariate Moran Index to verify […]
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