Scheffer, Mário
Mosquera, Paola
Cassenote, Alex
McPake, Barbara
Russo, Giuliano
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MR/R022747/1, MR/R022747/1)
Pan American Health Organization (OPAS/FFM SCON2023-00159, OPAS/FFM SCON2023-00159)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, grant number 2023/10124-0, 2024/17428-8)
Article History
Received: 25 October 2024
Accepted: 11 March 2025
First Online: 28 March 2025
Declarations
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: This paper is based on secondary data from Brazil’s Medical Demography collected over the last 20 years by the University of São Paulo, and therefore does not require ethics approval or consent to participate.
: This paper does not contain any individual person’s data in any form, and therefore consent for publication was not sought.
: The authors declare no competing interests.