Health Insurance Reform In Four Latin American Countries
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Health Insurance Reform In Four Latin American Countries
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Author : William Jack
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2000
Health Insurance Reform In Four Latin American Countries written by William Jack 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 2000 with Argentina - Salud categories.
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia have reformed the ways health insurance and health care are organized and delivered, have extended formal coverage to previously marginalized groups, and have tried to finance this extension fairly. Each has reformed health insurance differently.
Health Insurance Reform In Four Latin American Countries
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Author : William Jack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Health Insurance Reform In Four Latin American Countries written by William Jack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia have reformed the ways health insurance and health care are organized and delivered, have extended formal coverage to previously marginalized groups, and have tried to finance this extension fairly. Each has reformed health insurance differently.Jack examines public economics rationales for public intervention in health insurance markets, draws on the literature of organizational design to examine alternative intervention strategies, and considers health insurance reforms in four Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia - in light of the theoretical literature.Equity has been the main reason for large-scale public intervention in the health insurance sector, despite the well-known failures of insurance and health care markets associated with imperfect information.Recent reforms have sought less to make private markets more efficient than to make public provision more efficient, sometimes by altering the focus and function of existing institutions (such as the obras sociales in Argentina) or by encouraging the growth of new ones (such as Chile's ISAPREs).Generally, these four Latin American countries have reformed the ways insurance and care are organized and delivered, have tried to extend formal coverage to previously marginalized groups, and have tried to finance this extension fairly.Colombia instituted an implicit two-tiered voucher scheme financed through a proportional wage tax.Chile's financing mechanism is similar but the distribution of benefits is less progressive, so the net effect is less redistributive.Argentina's remodeled obras system went halfway: the financing base is similar and there is some implicit redistribution from richer to poorer obras, but the quality of insurance increases with income.On the face of it, Brazil's health insurance system is less redistributive than those of the other three countries, as no tax is earmarked for financing health insurance. But taxes paid by higher-income taxpayers are not reduced when they choose private insurance, highlighting the problem of examining the health sector independent of the general tax and transfer system.This paper - a product of Public Economics, Development Research Group - was prepared as part of a regional analysis of social risk management in Latin America and the Caribbean. The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Reshaping Health Care In Latin America
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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 2000
Reshaping Health Care In Latin America written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Electronic books categories.
Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Reassembling Social Security
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Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-31
Reassembling Social Security written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-31 with Business & Economics categories.
The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.
Impact Of Health Insurance In Low And Middle Income Countries
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Author : Maria-Luisa Escobar
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2010
Impact Of Health Insurance In Low And Middle Income Countries written by Maria-Luisa Escobar and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
Over the past twenty years, many low- and middle-income countries have experimented with health insurance options. While their plans have varied widely in scale and ambition, their goals are the same: to make health services more affordable through the use of public subsidies while also moving care providers partially or fully into competitive markets. Until now, however, we have known little about the actual effects of these dramatic policy changes. Understanding the impact of health insurance-based care is key to the public policy debate of whether to extend insurance to low-income populationsand if so, how to do itor to serve them through other means.
Social Policy Expansion In Latin America
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Author : Candelaria Garay
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016
Social Policy Expansion In Latin America written by Candelaria Garay 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 2016 with Political Science categories.
This book provides a novel explanation of widespread social policy expansion in Latin America beginning in the 1990s.
Institutional Frameworks For Social Policy In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : Rodrigo Martínez
language : en
Publisher: UN
Release Date : 2018
Institutional Frameworks For Social Policy In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Rodrigo Martínez and has been published by UN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Political Science categories.
Foreword .-- Introduction .-- Part 1. Social policy institutions. -- Chapter I. Institutional framework for social development / Rodrigo Martínez, Carlos Maldonado Valera .-- Chapter II. Social development and social protection institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean: overview and challenges / Rodrigo Martínez, Carlos Maldonado Valera .-- Part 2. Components and institutional framewoek of social protection. -- Chapter III. Labour market regulation and social protection: institutional challenges / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto .-- Chapter IV. Institutional aspects of Latin America's pension systems / Andras Uthoff .-- Chapter V. Care as a pillar of social protection: rights, policies and institutions in Latin America / María Nieves Rico, Claudia Robles .-- Part 3. Policies for specific populations and their institutional framework .-- Chapter VI. Life cycle and social policies: youth institutions in the region / Daniela Trucco .-- Chapter VII. Disability and public policy: institutional progress and challenges in Latin America / Heidi Ullmann .-- Chapter VIII. Latin American Afrodescendants: institutional framework and public policies / Marta Rangel.
The Epidemiological Transition
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1993-02-01
The Epidemiological Transition written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-01 with Social Science categories.
This book examines issues concerning how developing countries will have to prepare for demographic and epidemiologic change. Much of the current literature focuses on the prevalence of specific diseases and their economic consequences, but a need exists to consider the consequences of the epidemiological transition: the change in mortality patterns from infectious and parasitic diseases to chronic and degenerative ones. Among the topics covered are the association between the health of children and adults, the strong orientation of many international health organizations toward infant and child health, and how the public and private sectors will need to address and confront the large-scale shifts in disease and demographic characteristics of populations in developing countries.
Welfare And Party Politics In Latin America
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Author : Jennifer Pribble
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-22
Welfare And Party Politics In Latin America written by Jennifer Pribble 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 2013-04-22 with Political Science categories.
Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.
From Few To Many
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Author : Amanda Glassman
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2009
From Few To Many written by Amanda Glassman and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
"From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other reforms during a time when Colombia experienced crushing recession and internal conflict that displaced half a million people." "Prior to the reforms, a quarter of the Colombian population had health insurance. Subsidies failed to reach the poor, who were vulnerable to catastrophic financial consequences of illness. Yet by 2008, 85 percent of the population benefited from health insurance." "From Few to Many describes the challenges and benefits of implementing social health reforms in a developing country, exploring health care financing, institutional reform, the effects of political will on health care, and more. The reforms have provided important lessons not only for continued reform in Colombia, but also for other nations facing similar challenges." --Book Jacket.