Child morbidity and mortality associated with alternative policy responses to the economic crisis in Brazil: A nationwide microsimulation study.

<h4>Background</h4>Since 2015, a major economic crisis in Brazil has led to increasing poverty and the implementation of long-term fiscal austerity measures that will substantially reduce expenditure on social welfare programmes as a percentage of the country's GDP over the next 20...

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Main Authors: Davide Rasella, Sanjay Basu, Thomas Hone, Romulo Paes-Sousa, Carlos Octávio Ocké-Reis, Christopher Millett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-05-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002570