• The fundaments of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) were established in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, under the principles of universality...
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  • Healthcare in Brazil is a constitutional right. It is provided by both private and government institutions. The Health Minister administers national health policy...
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    This article lists the ministers of health of Brazil. "Galeria de Ministros da Saúde". bvsms.saude.gov.br. Retrieved 2021-11-19....
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    Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and in Latin America. Brazil is the world's...
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    The Ministry of Health (Portuguese: Ministério da Saúde) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. Since January 2023, the Health Minister is Nísia...
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  • Environmental issues in Brazil include deforestation, illegal wildlife trade, illegal poaching, air, land degradation, and water pollution caused by mining...
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    The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Portuguese: Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, Anvisa, literally National Health Surveillance Agency) is...
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    The Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae, and it is also the name of the tree's commercially harvested...
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  • Informática em Saúde (Brazilian Society of Health Informatics), abbreviated as SBIS, is a professional society created in November 1986 in Campinas, during...
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  • Same-sex marriage has been legal in Brazil since 16 May 2013 in accordance with a decision from the National Justice Council, ordering notaries of every...
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  • Brazil Child Health (Associação Saúde Criança and formerly Renascer) is a Brazilian nonprofit organization that works to break the cycle of hospital readmissions...
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    Crime in Brazil involves an elevated incidence of violent and non-violent crimes. Brazil's homicide rate was 21.26 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021, according...
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    Brazil Currency of Brazil: Real ISO 4217: BRL Economic history of Brazil Energy in Brazil Energy policy of Brazil Health care in Brazil Industry in Brazil...
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    Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8% of the population residing in urban and metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian...
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    Unidade de Pronto Atendimento (category Health in Brazil)
    24h, is a type of health center that can be found in many cities in Brazil. They are responsible for providing medium complexity health care, forming a...
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    Climate change in Brazil is mainly the climate of Brazil getting hotter and drier. The greenhouse effect of excess carbon dioxide and methane emissions...
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  • reassignment surgery provided by Brazil's public health service, the Sistema Único de Saúde. Before 2009 In 1993, the first Brazilian national meeting was held...
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    agriculture of Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy. While its initial focus was on sugarcane, Brazil eventually became...
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    predominant religion in Brazil is Christianity, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. In 1891, when the first Brazilian Republican Constitution...
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  • hearing health, the Brazilian government established the national policy for giving attention to hearing health in 2004, in which the Ministry of Health, considering...
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  • approximately double the actual number that was later reported by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and most international organizations. South and Southeast have...
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    Sistema Único de Saúde (category Medical and health organisations based in Brazil)
    dʒi saˈudʒi], Unified Health System), better known by the acronym SUS, is Brazil's publicly funded health care system. Created in 1990, the SUS is the...
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    by Zika virus, began in Brazil and affected other countries in the Americas from April 2015 to November 2016. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared...
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    Spaniards). Brazil has seen greater racial equality over time. According to a recent review study, "There has been major, albeit uneven, progress in these terms...
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    The military dictatorship in Brazil (Portuguese: ditadura militar), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, was established on 1 April...
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    residence program for health informatics.[citation needed] The first applications of computers to medicine and health care in Brazil started around 1968...
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    Imunizações, or PNI) of the Unified Health System is the national government agency overseeing vaccination in Brazil. Historically coverage has been high...
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    Nova classification (category Health promotion)
    applied to them. Researchers at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, proposed the system in 2009. Nova classifies food into four groups: Unprocessed or...
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    Brazil had an official resident population of 203 million in 2022, according to IBGE. Brazil is the seventh most populous country in the world, and the...
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    involving community health officer in China, Brazil, Iran and Bangladesh have demonstrated that utilizing such officer can help improve health outcomes for large...
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