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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797386303321

Titolo

Health care for all : toward universal health coverage and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence from selected countries / / edited by Tania Dmytraczenko and Gisele Almeida

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : The World Bank Group, , 2015

ISBN

1-4648-0455-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource(pages cm)

Collana

Directions in development

Disciplina

362.1098

Soggetti

Public health - Latin America

Social medicine - Latin America

Medical policy - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the context for universal health coverage reforms in LAC -- Universal health coverage policies in LAC -- Progress toward universal coverage in LAC : outcomes, utilization, and financial protection -- Assessing progress toward universal coverage : beyond utilization and financial protection.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past three decades, many countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have recognized health as a human right. Since the early 2000's, 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