Brazil's Family Health Strategy — Delivering Community-Based Primary Care in a Universal Health System

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Brazil's national health system has developed and rapidly scaled up an approach to primary care that relies on lay community health agents and interdisciplinary care teams to provide universal access to proactive first-contact care and public health interventions.

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