More Doctors Project in indigenous health: reflections from an opinion survey

Project

More Doctors for Brazil in the Indigenous Special Health Districts, with data produced by opinion research developed in communities that are served by Project’s physicians. The present analysis presents a set of data produced by a questionnaire applied to indigenous communities and then compared with the general universe of the same research in municipalities. The study identifies a significant increase in the number of physicians working in indigenous health, a positive perception of satisfaction with the project pointing out a non-exclusive relationship between access to biomedical services and the use of indigenous therapeutic practices.