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Record Nr.

UNINA9910133952303321

Titolo

Do options exist? : the reform of pension and health care systems in Latin America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998

ISBN

0-585-04392-2

Collana

Pitt Latin American series Do options exist?

Soggetti

Pensions - Latin America

Social security - Latin America

Health care reform - Latin America

Public Assistance

Health Policy

Health Planning

Income

Insurance

Delivery of Health Care

Socioeconomic Factors

Financing, Organized

Patient Care Management

Public Policy

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Financing, Government

Social Control Policies

Health Care

Health Services Administration

Economics

Population Characteristics

Policy

Social Control, Formal

Social Sciences

Sociology

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Health Care Reform

Social Security

Pensions



Business & Economics

Labor & Workers' Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : context and typology of reform models / María Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague -- Chile : the politics of privatization / Silvia Borzutsky -- The Chilean pension system : evaluation, lessons, and challenges / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Alberto Arenas de Mesa -- Mexico : the politics of the system for retirement pensions / Julián F. Bertranou -- Social security reform in El Salvador / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Ricardo Córdova Macías -- The new Argentine social security system : a mixed model / Ernesto Aldo Isuani and Jorge Antonio San Martino -- The pension system in Uruguay : a delayed reform / Jorge Papadópulos -- The pension system reform in Peru : economic rationale versus political will / María Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague -- The Colombian social security reform : between competition and solidarity / Miguel Eduardo Cárdenas Rivera -- Chile : the effectiveness of the reform / Brian Cartin -- Health sector reform : a financial-service flow model and the Colombian case / Gerard M. La Forgia -- Health care reform in Brazil : phasing change / Maureen Lewis and André Medici -- Reforming the Brazilian pension system / Cheikh T. Kane -- Social security in Ecuador : mixed or substitutive reform / Rubén M. Lo Vuolo and Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Poverty of social security in Guatemala : the need for structural reform / María Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague -- Social security in Venezuela : diagnosis and reform / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Mariela Arenas -- Conclusion : conditioning factors, cross-country comparisons, and recommendations / María Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague and Carmelo Mesa-Lago.