Health Care For The Poor In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Health Care For The Poor In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Health Care For The Poor In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Medical categories.
Toward Universal Health Coverage And Equity In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : Tania Dmytraczenko
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2015-06-30
Toward Universal Health Coverage And Equity In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Tania Dmytraczenko and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Medical categories.
Over the past three decades, many countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have recognized health as a human right. Since the early 2000s, 46 million more people in the countries studied are covered by health programs with explicit guarantees of affordable care. Reforms have been accompanied by a rise in public spending for health, financed largely from general revenues that prioritized or explicitly target the population without capacity to pay. Political commitment has generally translated into larger budgets as well as passage of legislation that ring-fenced funding for health. Most countries have prioritized cost-effective primary care and adopted purchasing methods that incentivize efficiency and accountability for results, and that give stewards of the health sector greater leverage to steer providers to deliver on public health priorities. Evidence from the analysis of 54 household surveys corroborates that investments in extending coverage are yielding results. Though the poor still have worse health outcomes than the rich, disparities have narrowed considerably - particularly in the early stage of the life course. Countries have reached high levels of coverage and equity in utilization of maternal and child health services; coverage of noncommunicable disease interventions is not as high and service utilization is still skewed toward the better off. Catastrophic health expenditures have declined in most countries; the picture regarding equity, however, is mixed. While the rate of impoverishment owing to health-care expenditures is low and generally declining, 2-4 million people in the countries studied still fall below the poverty line after health spending. Efforts to systematically monitor quality of care in the region are still in their infancy. Nonetheless, a review of the literature reveals important shortcomings in quality of care, as well as substantial differences across subsystems. Improving quality of care and ensuring sustainability of investments in health remain an unfinished agenda.
Toward Universal Health Coverage And Equity In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : Tania Dmytraczenko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Toward Universal Health Coverage And Equity In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Tania Dmytraczenko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Electronic book categories.
Health Services In Latin America And Asia
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Author : José Núñez del Arco
language : en
Publisher: IDB
Release Date : 2001
Health Services In Latin America And Asia written by José Núñez del Arco and has been published by IDB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Medical categories.
On either side of the globe, poor people often do not have access to the health services they need. Improvements in health care systems in Asia have lagged behind economic development, and progress in expanding health coverage in Latin America has been skewed across income levels. Health Services in Latin America and Asia takes a close look at how countries in both regions provide health care services, including the strategies that work and the problems that persist. The book documents encouraging progress in Bolivia, Brazil, China and Vietnam, and important preventive care programs in Central America and Thailand. It also examines health services in Chile, Colombia, the Philippines and Malaysia, as well as the health system and insurance model in Japan.Even though public and preventive health require specific and sustained allocations, both regions continue to use health insurance and other supply mechanisms to expand health service coverage. The book recommends broadening the supply of services through family doctors and community health workers, an alternative approach that would likely improve the equity, efficiency and sustainability of services.
Beyond Survival
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Author : Truman G. Packard
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2006-06-20
Beyond Survival written by Truman G. Packard and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-20 with Medical categories.
'Beyond Survival' breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial protection from the costs of health care. The evidence and discussion support the need to consider financial protection, in addition to health status, as a policy objective when setting priorities for health systems. This book reviews the Latin American experience with health reform in the last 20 years and the fundamentals of health system financing, using new evidence to show the magnitude and mechanisms that determine the impoverishing effects of health events (diseases, accidents, and those of the life cycle). It provides options for policy makers on how to protect, and help household to protect themselves,against this impoverishment. The authors use empirical evidence from six case studies commissioned for this report, on Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico. This book provides policy makers with a solid conceptual basis for decisions on the contents of mandatory health insurance benefit packages, choices of financing mechanisms, and the roles of public policy in this field. 'Beyond Survival' provides an in-depth analysis of, and organizational alternatives for, risk pooling and health insurance for financial protection. It analyzes the urgent need to extend risk pooling to the informal sector, the challenges for current social insurance arrangements, and options for policy makers to effectively extend risk pooling to the informal sector.
Medicine And Public Health In Latin America
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Author : Marcos Cueto
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Medicine And Public Health In Latin America written by Marcos Cueto and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.
Healthcare Reform And Poverty In Latin America
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Author : Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
language : en
Publisher: University of London Press
Release Date : 2000
Healthcare Reform And Poverty In Latin America written by Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and has been published by University of London Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
Most Latin American countries are now attempting the radical reform of their healthcare financing and delivery systems. In many cases, these reforms complement and contribute to broader neo-liberal orthodoxies of economic and social reform. Key strategies include decentralising hospital administration and the promotion of private health insurance. However, experiences across the region are quite diverse, and countries such as Cuba persist with a system of healthcare based on very different principles. This book identifies key problems facing healthcare systems in the region and evaluates the reforms that have been implemented to date. It pays particular attention to problems of implementation and the impact that changes to health policy are having on poor and vulnerable groups.
Health And Health Care In Latin America During The Lost Decade
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Author : Connie Weil
language : en
Publisher: Prisma Books
Release Date : 1992
Health And Health Care In Latin America During The Lost Decade written by Connie Weil and has been published by Prisma Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Health categories.
Investment In Health
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Pan American Health Org
Release Date : 2001
Investment In Health written by and has been published by Pan American Health Org this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Caribbean Area categories.
This publication considers the final reports of three research projects that explored how investing in health can benefit economic growth, household productivity, and poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. It contains case studies of health systems and policies in a number of countries including Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru; as well as a review of experiences from other regions in the world regarding health inequalities and poverty alleviation.
Obesity And Poverty
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Author : Manuel Peña
language : en
Publisher: Pan American Health Org
Release Date : 2000
Obesity And Poverty written by Manuel Peña and has been published by Pan American Health Org this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Caribbean Area categories.
Obesity and overweight have been under estimated as public health problems in Latin America and the Caribbean and both conditions are on the rise in the region. This book is a review of the prevalence of the problem and the medium and long term adverse effects of the conditions and the implications for planning public health actions.