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Description: Atlas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Saúde. Brasil: 1991 
a 2010 <http://bit.ly/1Mm8sRR>*The Atlas of Sustainable Development and 
Health: Brazil 1991-2010 */(abstract in /*English 
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***Atlas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Saúde. Brasil: 1991 a 2010 
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***Atlas de Desarrollo Sostenible y Salud. Brasil: 1991 a 2010 
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///Pan American Health Organization, Country Office - Brazil///

///Published online: August 2015/

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*Abstract:*

The Atlas of Sustainable Development and Health: Brazil 1991-2010, 
prepared by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health 
Organization Country Office in Brazil, describes the magnitude and 
trends of relevant indicators on the social, economic, and environmental 
dimensions of health and informs the debate on the extent of 
inequalities in Brazil over the last two decades.  Those indicators 
correspond to the years 1991, 2000, and 2010 across all Federal Units, 
taking all 5,565 Brazilian municipalities as units of analysis.

This study was inspired by a key passage from the United Nations 
Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20; Rio de Janeiro, June 
2012) outcome document (The Future We Want), which declares: “We 
recognize that health is a precondition for and an outcome and indicator 
of all three dimensions of sustainable development […]: social, 
economic, and environmental”. Selected indicators were those included 
within the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and that 
will have continuity within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to 
be set by the United Nations’ Member States for the post-2015 period. 
Those indicators are: infant and child mortality as health dimension 
indicators; population poverty prevalence as an economic dimension 
indicator; population illiteracy rate as a social dimension indicator; 
and, proportion of people without access to safe water as an 
environmental dimension indicator. Analyses at all federal units in the 
country show clear improvements over the two decades studied (1991 to 
2010), especially from 2000 to 2010, in terms of progress in sustainable 
development, as assessed by a reduction in the average values of the 
indicators analyzed, as well as in progress in health equity, as 
assessed by a decline in absolute and relative health inequalities 
between regions and municipalities, which is by itself an extremely 
relevant fact to point out.

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