{"id":176,"date":"2017-09-07T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T09:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/?p=176"},"modified":"2017-09-07T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T09:43:26","slug":"senator-bernie-sanders-highlights-a-recent-imperial-college-paper-on-primary-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/2017\/09\/07\/senator-bernie-sanders-highlights-a-recent-imperial-college-paper-on-primary-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bernie Sanders highlights a recent Imperial College paper on primary care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-177 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/files\/2017\/09\/Sanders-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US Senator\u00a0Bernie Sanders shared a recent paper from Imperial College London on his Facebook page. The paper highlighted the importance of expanding universal health coverage to reduce \u2018avoidable\u2019 deaths among Brazil\u2019s black and mixed-race populations. The paper was published in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.1002306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLoS Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Thomas Hone, Professor Christopher Millett, Professor Azeem Majeed from the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, and the School of Public Health, at Imperial College London and their colleagues from Fiocruz in Brazil analysed mortality data from 2000-2013 to determine the effect of Brazil&#8217;s Family Health Strategy (FHS) on avoidable deaths in black and mixed-race Brazilians compared to white Brazilians.<\/p>\n<p>We found that rates of avoidable deaths were between 17% and 23% higher in black and mixed-race populations than in the white population during 2000-2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator\u00a0Bernie Sanders shared a recent paper from Imperial College London on his Facebook page. 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