Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Federal Center for Technological Education of Rio de Janeiro, CEFET/RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
BMC Res Notes. 2023 Apr 25;16(1):63. doi: 10.1186/s13104-023-06323-0.
Primary health care builds the backbone of an effective healthcare system and can improve population health, reduce cost growth, and lessen inequality. We offer a machine-readable and open-access dataset on primary health care coverage in Brazil from 1998 to 2020. This dataset is interoperable with epidemiological data from two major studies and reusable by the research community worldwide for other purposes, such as monitoring progress toward universal health coverage and studying the association between primary health care and health outcomes.
The dataset gathers official and public information from the "e-Gestor AB" platform of the Ministry of Health of Brazil and restricted data obtained by the Brazilian Access to Information Law. It includes 1,509,870 observations and 35 attributes aggregated by months/years and policy-relevant geographic units (country, macroregions, states, municipalities, and capitals) on primary health care team count and their absolute and relative population coverage estimates, information on the More Doctors Program implementation and physician counts, and spatial, demographic, and socioeconomic characteristics. We automated all data processing and curation in the free and open software R. The codes can be audited, replicated, and reused to produce alternative analyses.
初级卫生保健是有效医疗体系的支柱，可以改善人口健康状况、降低成本增长速度并减少不平等现象。我们提供了一个可机读的、开放获取的巴西初级卫生保健覆盖数据集，涵盖了 1998 年至 2020 年的数据。该数据集与两项主要研究的流行病学数据互操作，可供全球研究界用于其他目的，例如监测全民健康覆盖的进展情况以及研究初级卫生保健与健康结果之间的关系。
该数据集汇集了巴西卫生部“e-Gestor AB”平台的官方和公共信息，以及根据巴西信息获取法获取的受限数据。它包括 1,509,870 个观测值和 35 个属性，按月/年和与政策相关的地理单位（国家、大区、州、市和首都）汇总，包括初级卫生保健团队人数及其绝对和相对人口覆盖估计数、更多医生计划实施和医生人数信息，以及空间、人口和社会经济特征。我们在免费和开放源码软件 R 中自动完成了所有数据处理和管理。这些代码可以被审核、复制和重复使用，以产生替代分析。
