Family health strategy and equity in prenatal care: a population based cross-sectional study in Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• 作者：Mônica Viegas Andrade…
• 关键词：Antenatal care ; Prenatal care ; Primary health care ; Family health strategy ; Health equity ; Brazil
• 刊名：International Journal for Equity in Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1248KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Quality of Life Research; Social Policy; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1475-9276
• 卷排序：16

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BackgroundPrenatal care coverage is still not universal or adequately provided in many low and middle income countries. One of the main barriers regards the presence of socioeconomic inequalities in prenatal care utilization. In Brazil, prenatal care is supplied for the entire population at the community level as part of the Family Health Strategy (FHS), which is the main source of primary care provided by the public health system. Brazil has some of the greatest income inequalities in the world, and little research has been conducted to investigate prenatal care utilization of FHS across socioeconomic groups. This paper addresses this gap investigating the socioeconomic and regional differences in the utilization of prenatal care supplied by the FHS in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.