Performance-related bonuses for family healthcare workers in Brazil can improve the quality of primary health care, especially in more deprived areas

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Image Caption: PMAQ (National Programme for Improving Primary Care Access and Quality) score by municipality bonus design in the matched sample.

Image Credit: Fardousi N, et al., 2022, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Article Title: Performance bonuses and the quality of primary healthcare delivered by family health teams in Brazil: A difference-in-differences analysis

Author Countries: United Kingdom, Brazil, Denmark

Funding: This research was funded by the Medical Research Council, Newton Fund and the Brazilian National Council for the States Funding Agencies (CONFAP) under the UK to Brazil Joint Health Systems Research Call (grant MR/R022828/1). The MRC grant was awarded to JB and TPJ. Funding from CONFAP came from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF), Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE) and Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado da Paraíba (FAPESQ). CONFAP funding was awarded to ES. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.