Regional inequalities in the supply of ophthalmologists and the volume of cataract surgeries between the public and private health sectors in Brazil

Scheffer, Mário; Moreira, Jessica Pronestino de Lima; Bahia, Lígia; Borges, Sophia Aguiar Monteiro; Cassenote, Alex Jones Flores; Gameiro, Gustavo Rosa; Jr, Rubens Belfort

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Regional inequalities in the supply of ophthalmologists and the volume of cataract surgeries between the public and private health sectors in Brazil

Mário Scheffer¹; Jessica Pronestino de Lima Moreira^1,2; Lígia Bahia^1,3; Sophia Aguiar Monteiro Borges^1,4,5; Alex Jones Flores Cassenote¹; Gustavo Rosa Gameiro^1,6,7; Rubens Belfort Jr⁷

DOI: 10.5935/0004-2749.2025-0218

1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2. Hygiene and Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Bromatology, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
3. Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
4. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
5. Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
6. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
7. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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Mário Scheffer
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