A health policy for providing attention for the population of the Brazilian State of S. Paulo, based on a threefold program of integration of facilities is proposed: the integration of preventive and healing medical activities; the integration of the sanitation authorities, under a central health authority, represented by the State Department of Health; the integration, in a true "health system", of the federal, state and private out-patient and in-patient clinics.
Health; Resource integration; S. Paulo, Brazil; Health System
