Author: Felicia Marie KnaulPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Financing Health in Latin America
Author: Felicia Marie KnaulFinancing Health in Latin America
Author: Ramiro GuerreroPublisher: Global Equity Initiative
ISBN: 9780982914434
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The second of two volumes, this book analyzes health financing systems in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru. Highlighting opportunities for financial protection in health, the analysis describes success stories and obstacles, with cases that provide evidence for emerging regional trends.
Beyond Survival
Author: Truman G. PackardPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082136572X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
'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.
Toward Universal Health Coverage and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Tania DmytraczenkoPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464804559
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
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.
Financing Health in Latin America
Author: Innovation Financing in Programs of Health in Latin America
Author: Antonio Carlos Coelho CampinoPublisher:
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Reshaping Health Care in Latin America
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889369232
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Financing Health Care in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Special Study of Costa Rica
Author: World Bank. Population, Health, and Nutrition DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages :
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Innovations in Health Care Financing
Author: George SchieberPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821339640
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Spanish edition. World Bank Technical Paper No. 345S. This report examines specific policies for achieving sustainable development of the mining industry in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The report highlights the importance of the mining sector to national economies of the region and discusses World Bank assistance in formulating policy. Also available in English: (ISBN 0-8213-3816-1) Stock no. 13816.
Health Care Financing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Sharon Stanton RussellPublisher:
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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