Francisca Gerlania Barros da Silva about the full day schedule at the school where her children study in the rural zone in Quixadá (EC): "The longer they [the children] are in school, the more they like their studies and learn more. Daniel, nine years old, already knows how tosolve difficult math problems, something I never learned."

Indigenous health ceased to be one of the actions of the National Health Foundation (Funasa) to become the exclusive focus of an office created in 2010 by the Ministry of Health. The main objective is to offer a holistic health care service through the SUS to Brazil’s Indian population. The government primarily invests in improving the sanitary conditions for waste management and water supply in the villages. As a result of these efforts, infant mortality among indigenous populations has been declining steadily since 2005.

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One year before Lula’s first election in 2001, the law of psychiatric reform condemned the old psychiatric hospitals from which patients were discharged — when they were discharged — with consequences worse than their diseases. It was up to the Lula and Dilma governments to create the new structures to serve the mentally ill in a humane and responsive way in order to integrate them into the family and society.

The ratio between the consolidation of the Family Health Teams and the reduction of infant deaths was found by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which reported: for each 10% of expanding coverage of Health teams Famili