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Implementation of promotion and prevention activities in decentralized health systems: comparative case studies from Chile and Brazil (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Cohn, A., Ducci, M., & Gideon, J. (2005). Implementation of promotion and prevention activities in decentralized health systems: comparative case studies from Chile and Brazil. Health Promotion International, 20(2), 167-175. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dah605

The policies for restructuring health systems in Latin America during the 1990s have included an emphasis on changing in the model of health care delivery to one that incorporates prevention and promotion activities. At the same time, health systems... Read More about Implementation of promotion and prevention activities in decentralized health systems: comparative case studies from Chile and Brazil.

Prevention and promotion in decentralised rural health systems: a comparative study from Northeast Brazil (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Fernandes, L., Caprara, A., & Gideon, J. (2005). Prevention and promotion in decentralised rural health systems: a comparative study from Northeast Brazil. Health Policy and Planning, 20(2), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czi009

Policies to reform health care provision often combine the organizational restructuring of decentralization with ideological restructuring through a new model of health care that gives greater weight to prevention and promotion. Decentralization prov... Read More about Prevention and promotion in decentralised rural health systems: a comparative study from Northeast Brazil.

Individual and district scale determinants of users' satisfaction with primary health care in developing countries (2005)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Haran, D. (2005). Individual and district scale determinants of users' satisfaction with primary health care in developing countries. Social Science & Medicine, 60(3), 501-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.05.019

The paper has two aims: to explore possible determinants of user satisfaction based on a broad conception of the health care system involving both individual and district scale variables, and to add to the limited knowledge and empirical study about... Read More about Individual and district scale determinants of users' satisfaction with primary health care in developing countries.