Press coverage on the dismantling of the Mais Médicos Program

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Solano
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3575
• topic: Mais Médicos; Atenção básica; Cubanos; Reportagem; Más Médicos; Atención primaria; Cubanos; Reportaje; Mais Médicos; Primary care; Cubans; Report

This paper describes the main steps of the journalistic investigation that culminated in the report “The little children who are gone,” published by piauí magazine. According to article, the disorganization of the Primary Care system in poor municipalities, caused by the dismantling of the More Doctors Program, led to a 58% increase in deaths from preventable causes in children under the age of five. The report is the result documents obtained by the Access to Information Law (LAI), and by cross-references made in the Mortality Information System (SIM), an open database of the Ministry of Health. Registry office research and the search for families who lost children in 2019 are also described. In short, the article takes part in the process of providing information for public deliberation.