DATA VISUALIZATIONS

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Families that had monthly visits from a CHW

Data Source: Malta DC, et al.

Five key success factors

GDP by state in Brazil

Data Source: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Overview of National Health System, Brazil

The federal government provides direct transfers to both state and municipal funds. Then, each state has the ability to supplement the state fund with their own budget and then transfer to municipalities. Finally, municipalities can contribute to their municipal health fund. Thus, each municipal health fund (the tier directly funding the Family Health Strategy) receives federal, state and municipal resources.Data Source: Ministry of Health of Brazil, Last Mile Health

Program Overview

Ratio of community health workers (CHWs) to population by state

Data Source: Ministry of Health of Brazil

State level coverage of family health strategy teams in Brazil, 2018

Data Source: Ministry of Health of Brazil, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Synthesis of survey evaluation from initial Ceara state CHW pilot

Data Source: PACS study

Health indicators in Brazil

Data Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Federal transfers per capita by type of care

Data Source: Ministry of Health of Brazil

Health facility density in Brazil per 10,000 population

Data Source: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Health expenditure in Brazil

Data Source: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME); World Bank

Primary health care utilization and ESF/CHWs

Data Source: Ministry of Health of Brazil

Ratio of community health workers (CHWs) to population in Brazil

Data Source: Ministry of Health of Brazil, World Bank

Ratio of health workers to population in Brazil

Data Source: WHO Global Health Workforce Statistics

Service utilization per capita by level of care

Data Source: Ministry of Health of Brazil; World Bank

Ratio of doctors by region in Brazil, 2010

Data source: World Health Organization Global Health Workforce Statistics, OECD. supplemented by country data.

Methodology