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Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Health Care in the Caribbean and Central America written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 153 pages
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Download or read book Health Care in the Caribbean and Central America written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Health Care in the Caribbean and Central America written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmen Carpio
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464805954
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book The Health Workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Carmen Carpio and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a status update on the human resources for health (HRH) sub-system in six Latin American and Caribbean countries: Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. The report structures its discussion around how the health workforce is financed, organized, managed, regulated, and performing. In the area of financing, the study presents the variety of contracting mechanisms, salary levels, and financial incentives offered across the countries and their role in being able to attract and retain health workers. On the organization of the HRH sub-system, the report looks at the skill-mix, training, and distribution of health care workers concluding that although the countries have made progress towards achieving key HRH targets and in making education more accessible, there continues to be limited absorption capacity for graduates, the Primary Health Care focus of training programs needs to be strengthened, and strategies to encourage rural service have not been able to fully address the gap in the distribution of health workers. In reviewing management strategies for HRH, the report presents how all countries have adopted the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel to recognize foreign-trained professionals to help address shortages and fill gaps of health worker presence in rural, remote areas. However, the countries continue to struggle with putting self-sufficiency policies in place to meet HRH needs such as the lack of promotion plans, limited non-monetary incentives, and the shortage of personnel for recruitment and eventual placement. In the area of regulation, the report presents the countries' efforts to reduce precarious employment and introduce HRH safety policies and legislation to regulate disputes and negotiations. On performance, the report found mixed results in the areas of access/availability to health workers and quality of care, factors discouraging dual practice, and unjustified absenteeism of health workers.
Author : Margo J. Krasnoff
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 161168420X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Building Partnerships in the Americas written by Margo J. Krasnoff and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical, cultural, and medical guide for those planning to do health-related work in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
Author : Tania Dmytraczenko
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464804559
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Toward Universal Health Coverage and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Tania Dmytraczenko and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Carmen Carpio
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Download or read book Health Workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Carmen Carpio and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmen Carpio
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ISBN 13 : 9781464805943
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book A Situational Analysis of the Health Workforce Sub-System in Six Latin American and Caribbean Countries written by Carmen Carpio and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The health workforce is the foundation of care and affects quality and outcomes; human resources for health(HRH) constitutes the largest portion of the health care budget of most countries. Latin America and theCaribbean has been challenged by imbalances in workforce composition, distribution, and skill mix, as wellas by variations in productivity and quality.The Health Workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Analysis of Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama,Peru, and Uruguay provides an update on HRH in these six countries. The discussion is structured around fivekey areas of the workforce: financing, organization, management, regulation, and performance.** Financing: The authors present the variety of contracting mechanisms, salary levels, and financialincentives, and their roles in attracting and retaining health workers.** Organization: The countries have made progress toward achieving HRH targets and making educationmore accessible. However, the absorption capacity remains limited for graduates, the primary health carefocus of training programs needs to be strengthened, and the strategies to encourage rural service havenot effectively addressed the distribution gap of health workers.** Management: All six countries have adopted the World Health Organization's Global Code of Practice onthe International Recruitment of Health Personnel to recognize foreign-trained professionals to helpaddress shortages and fill gaps in rural and remote areas. However, the countries continue to strugglewith implementing self-sufficiency policies to build the capacity to meet needs. Such policies includepromotion plans, nonmonetary incentives, and personnel for recruitment and eventual placement.** Regulation: The countries are working to reduce precarious and unprotected employment, introducesafety policies to decrease occupational diseases and workplace accidents, and enact legislation toresolve disputes.** Performance: Mixed results have been achieved in health outcomes, access and availability, quality ofcare and patient satisfaction, professional practice, and productivity and efficiency.
Author : Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida
Publisher : Pan Amer Health Org
ISBN 13 : 9789275129067
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Innovative Mental Health Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida and published by Pan Amer Health Org. This book was released on 2008 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each experience described here has its own history, as can be seen in each one of the chapters. Yet, all of them are part of a single reform process with shared historical roots and influences ... As proved by the experiences included in this book, a great deal can be learned from mental health reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. On the one hand, each initiative developed truly original and innovative solutions for some of the problems usually encountered in the reform processes. Obviously, many of the innovative solutions can be applied in those countries that are at a similar stage of development as the Latin American and Caribbean countries where the reported experiences took place. However, many of these innovations also can be useful to any country interested in reforming its mental health services, regardless of the country's degree of development. I also believe that the reform of mental health services in Latin America and the Caribbean--given specific aspects such as the dynamic following the Caracas Declaration and the impact of international cooperation--help us to better understand the real importance of some factors, such as social and political aspects and international cooperation, in implementing mental health service reforms."--p. iv.
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Author : Gerard Martin LaForgia
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821362785
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Health system innovations in Central America [electronic resource] written by Gerard Martin LaForgia and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Health Care for the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Palazuelos
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 1611687551
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Mexico written by Daniel Palazuelos and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students and health practitioners traveling abroad seek insightful and relevant background material to orient them to the new environment. This volume on Mexico provides historical, political, and cultural background for contemporary health care challenges, especially related to poverty. Combining the personal insights of the authors and Mexican medical personnel with a broader discussion of the uniquely Mexican context, it is an essential guide for anyone heading to Mexico to do health care-related work.
Author : María Eugenia Bonilla-Chacín
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464800170
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Promoting Healthy Living in Latin America and the Caribbean written by María Eugenia Bonilla-Chacín and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the health and economic impact of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean and the governance challenges in designing and implementating multisectoral interventions to prevent these conditions, including policies to improve diet, increase physical activity, and reduce tobacco use and alcohol abuse.
Author : Gerard M. La Forgia
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Health System Innovations in Central America written by Gerard M. La Forgia and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Similar to developing countries elsewhere, during the 1990s, Central American countries faced pressures to improve the performance of their health systems. In most countries, there was a consensus that the systems were failing to live up to their potential. Rather than take on system-wide change, each country opted to step into reform through launching innovations to address specific problems or deficiencies in a particular program, function or intervention of the system. 'Health Systems Innovations in Central America' reports on how these experiences fared--a hospital in Panama, a nutrition program in Honduras, primary care extension in Guatemala, a subset of hospitals and primary care units in Costa Rica and a social security-managed health care program in Nicaragua. The studies report on the performance of the innovations, the policy environment in which they were developed as well as nuts-and-bolts features and processes incorporated into their design and implementation.
Author : Clement Bezold
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Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book 21st Century Health Care in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Clement Bezold and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explora las posibilidades de lograr cambios favorables en los sistemas de atencion a la salud de America Latina y el Caribe y de alcanzar una Salud para Todos en el siglo XXI. Contenido: Futuros de la salud : herramientas para una mejor toma de decisiones; Desarrollo economico y social y Salud para Todos; La revolucion informativa y la atencion a la salud en Chile; El futuro de terapeutica; Tendencias futuras de la vacunologia; La genomica: promesas y las precauciones a tomar en la aceleracion de la calidad de la prevencion; el diagnostico, el tratamiento y la curacion; El futuro de los farmacos y de su regulacion en America Latina; Los sistemas de salud latinoamericanos en transicion: una vision para el futuro; El futuro de la atencion gerenciada en America Latina; Salud para Todos en las Americas: el escenario preferido; +Que significa todo esto? El sector privado, el sector publico y Salud para Todos(AU).
Author : Carlos Rodríguez
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Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Contrapartes en salud de América Central y el Caribe written by Carlos Rodríguez and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gianluca Cafagna
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Age with Care written by Gianluca Cafagna and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 8 million older people are unable to independently complete at least one basic activity of daily living, such as eating, bathing or showering, or getting in and out of bed. This situation, called care dependence, affects 12% of people over age 60 and nearly 27% of people over age 80 in the region. The demand for long-term care services will more than triple in the next 30 years, due primarily to population aging and the epidemiological transition. The region will also see a drop in the traditional supply of long-term care services, which are based mainly on the unpaid work of women in families. Given this outlook, societies and governments must ready themselves to support care-dependent people and their caregivers, while at the same time advancing gender equity. Countries need to design long-term care systems, and they need to do so now. This publication addresses five key questions for countries in the region that wish to start this process: 1) Why is long-term care an issue that cannot wait?; 2) How do countries design a long-term care system?; 3) What are the countries in the region doing?; 4) How much would a long-term care system cost?; 5) Where should we start? This is the first IDB publication that is interactive and accessible to as many people as possible.
