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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



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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 Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, DC : , : The World Bank Group, , 2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource(pages cm)
Disciplina: 362.1098
Soggetto topico: Public health - Latin America
Social medicine - Latin America
Medical policy - Latin America
Persona (resp. second.): DmytraczenkoTania
AlmeidaGisele
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
Titolo autorizzato: Health care for all  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4648-0455-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797386303321
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Serie: Directions in development (Washington, D.C.) World Bank e-Library.