Public health expenditure (% of GDP), 2002 : 3.6
Health expenditure per capita (PPP US$), 2002 : 611
Physicians (per 100,000 people), 1990-2004 : 206
Data Source:HDR 2005 - UNDP

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BRAZIL - Basic Healthcare

MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières
  § Basic Healthcare Country Sheet (in preparation)
   
WHO - World Health Organisation
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Brazil, Country Information, WHO, The World Health Report 2005

  § Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas: Brazil, Pan American Health Organization, WHO, Sep 2002
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Global Health Atlas, World Health Statistics 2005, WHO

  § World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS), WHO
  § Survey report on medicine prices and affordibility in Brazil
   
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
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Country tables, Human Development Report 2005

    ð Brazil Data Country Sheet
    ð Brazil Country Fact Sheet
   
Global Health Council
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Statistics from the Human Development Report 2003 are presented in an interactive world atlas.

    ð Brazil Statistics
   
The World Bank Group
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DevData, Health, Nutrition & Population Stats, 2005

   
ECOI - European Country of Information Network
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Ecoi.net collects and structures country resources with a specific focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, professional and volunteer refugee counsels as well as persons deciding on claims for asylum and other forms of international protection.
They provide an interesting search engine that gathers information from different sources with a high reputation, such as the UN, international non-governmental organisations, news services or newspapers.

   
LACHSR - Latin America and Carribean Regional Health Sector Reform Initiative
  § Health Systems Country Profiles, Brazil, LACHSR
   
HRC - Health Resource Centre
  § Brazil, Health Briefing Paper, Health Resource Centre, Sep 1999
   
Social Security Online
  § Brazil, Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2005
   
International Social Security Association
  § ISSA provides a database of social security systems in over 170 countries.
   
Transparency International
  § Global Corruption Report 2006, Special Focus: Corruption and Health
    ð Country Report Brazil, Ana Luiza Fleck Saibro
    ð Efficiency of federal transfers to municipalities in Brazil, Marcos Jose Mendes
  § Corruption Perceptions Index 2005, Country Rank: 62
   
Lists of development organizations in Brazil
  § Brazil, Directory of Development Organizations, edition 2006

You could also request further information from other organisations dealing with availability and accessibility of healthcare.

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