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