Brazil Child Health (Associação Saúde Criança and formerly Renascer) is a Brazilian nonprofit organization that works to break the cycle of hospital readmissions of critically ill children from low-income backgrounds.
To go beyond medical treatment and to secure patient health for the long term, Associação Saúde Criança espouses a biopsychosocial model of healthcare that provides comprehensive post-hospitalization care and aims to bring the family out of poverty.
[4] In response, she began Associação Saúde Criança out of her own home with a handful of volunteers in order to provide for families the items required to keep them healthy outside of the hospital, such as food, clothing, and financial support.
The study also found an 86% decrease in the average number of days children spent in the hospital, with a significant drop in costs for the public health system.
The methodology has already been reproduced in 24 organizations that work with hospitals and other public units in several Brazilian states, and adapted to a human development program by the city of Belo Horizonte.
It offers training, internships and exchanges for people interested in implementing the Family Action Plan, and for students and professionals from universities in Brazil and abroad.
ASC invests in research and development of better ways of applying the methodology, offers consulting services, holds meetings and seminars with social entrepreneurs, companies, foundations and governments.
[9] The municipality of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais has officially incorporated Saúde Criança's methodology into its public health program, "Família Cidadã: Cidade Solidaria.