Health Policies in Brazil

Through its wide-ranging references, the book makes it possible to develop a critical and reflective analysis of the current Unified Health System, providing academic/professional reflection by analysing the challenges of legislation (theory) versus practice that must be overcome in order to make the SUS a reality. Aimed at academics in the health sciences, it comprehensively compiles scientific literature on the construction of the public health system in Brazil, from its historical basis and evolutionary process to the standards and protocols developed from the country's health policies. It covers the health models adopted in Brazil's history, up to the emergence of the Unified Health System (SUS) with its principles and guidelines, standards and pacts, the blocks and organisation that finance the public system. It also includes an analysis and organisation of the Health Care Levels according to the determinants of the health and disease process, highlighting primary care. The tool that I consider essential for achieving the objectives of primary care, which is Community Diagnosis, was discussed.