The recently completed Family HealthExtension Project (FHEP) has provided support toBrazil's Family Health Program (Programa de Saude daFamilia, or PSF) and allowed dramatic improvements in thecoverage of basic health services. The project aimed toimprove utilization and quality of publicly-financed healthservices by: (a) expanding coverage of the PSF in about 100large municipalities, establishing well-articulated referraland counter-referral systems, and introducingperformance-based financing and management arrangements; (b)establishing family health as a core element of healthprofessional and para-professional training; and (c)strengthening the Ministry of Health's (MOH orMinisterio da Saude) capacity to monitor and evaluate PSFhealth services, policies, and training activities on asystematic basis.
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