The physiotherapy workforce in the Brazilian Unified Health Care System.

Carolina Hart RodésJoão Vitor Lovato DaréBruna Carolina de AraujoLeonardo GracianiSilvia Maria Amado JoãoAna Claudia Camargo Gonçalves GermaniAna Carolina Basso Schmitt

Published in: Human resources for health (2021)

Although the physiotherapy workforce in Brazil is relatively small, there was a trend towards growth with differences among care levels, and public and private sectors. The physiotherapy workforce-to-population ratio is bigger in the private secondary health care sector, followed by public tertiary, secondary and primary health care sectors. Sub-national regions show similar trends to the national estimates, with minor variations by region.

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healthcare
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