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www.thelancet.com Vol 378 July 23, 2011 317 One main obstacle to being open to these questions is the pressure on epidemiologists, managers, and academics to collect data in a vertical fashion. Yet violence cannot be seen as detached from infectious disease, maternal mortality, drug addiction, or unemployment. The Family Health Strategy, cited in most of the Series papers, has been a vehicle by which many vertical actions have already been integrated, and the results have been well studied. What readers really need to know are the obstacles to going further in this regard. The outcome of The Lancet’s Series is a collection of excellent health data empty of relevant messages for taking decisions around healthpolicy organ isation. There is a need to understand health in Brazil in terms of the best answers to health service problems.