The Leser Reform: the architecture of a São Paulo (Brazil) public health project, 1967-1979

This article recovers t he relevance of these actions, both in the sense of reorganization of the government ’ s public health machinery and for the contextual opening to the public health movement of S ão Paulo, which was organized, above all, within the state government ’ s machinery of the period. It is considered that the Leser Reform has had a relevant impact especially in the constitution of Primary Health Care (PHC) and in its consolidation as an important level for the health system, as it would be considered in the proposal and implementation of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) after 1988. However, the public policy that defined the PHC under the Leser Reform as a certain care model, the Programa ção em Saúde, had a very short historical existence.
Source: Saude e Sociedade - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research