Impact of Brazil's More Doctors Program on hospitalizations for primary care sensitive cardiovascular conditions.

ABSTRACT: Globally, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of disease burden and death. Timely and appropriate provision of primary care may lead to sizeable reductions in hospitalizations for a range of chronic and acute health conditions. In this paper, we study the impact of Brazil's More Doctors Program (MDP) on hospitalizations due to cerebrovascular disease and hypertension. We exploit the geographic variation in the uptake of the MPD and combine coarsened exact matching and difference-in-difference methods to construct valid counterfactual estimates. We use data from the Hospital Information System in Unified Health System, the MDP administrative records, the Brazilian Regulatory Agency, the Ministry of Health, and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, covering the years

SUBMITTER: Ozcelik EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725939 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature