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Author : Rubén Suárez
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book National Health Expenditure and Financing in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Rubén Suárez and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramesh Govindaraj
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821331422
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Health Expenditures in Latin America written by Ramesh Govindaraj and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 274. The preparation of the World Bank's World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health (WDR) included an effort to assemble internationally comparable statistics on a broad range of health and health system indicators. Data had to be compiled from existing sources while analytical efforts were made to improve the quality and comparability of the data. This paper presents an expanded and updated version of the WDR estimates of 1990 health expenditures for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Whereas the population cut-off for inclusion in the WDR was 3 million, these tables include almost all countries in the region. This update of the expenditures results in a substantial upward revision in the estimated percentage of GNP spent on health in the region in 1990 from 4 to 6%.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264732624
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank, presents a set of key indicators of health status, determinants of health, healthcare resources and utilisation, healthcare expenditure and financing, quality of care, health workforce, and ageing across 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries.
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 : Alejandro Izquierdo
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 1597823317
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Better Spending for Better Lives written by Alejandro Izquierdo and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2018-09-16 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can this puzzle of larger demands and fiscal strengthening be solved? This edition of the development in the Americas (DIA) report focuses precisely on this question. The book suggests that the answer is about fiscal efficiency and smart spending rather than the standard solution of across-the-board spending cuts to achieve fiscal sustainability— sometimes at great cost for society. It is about doing more with less. · Analysis of government spending in Latin America and the Caribbean reveals widespread waste and inefficiencies that could be as large as 4.4 percent of the region’s GDP, showing there is ample room to improve basic services without necessarily spending more resources. · The publication argues against across-the-board cuts. It looks at whether countries spend too much or too little on different priorities, whether they invest enough to ensure a better future, and whether those expenditures make inequality better or worse. · Along with the diagnosis, the report offers several policy recommendations on how to improve the efficiency of government spending.
Download or read book Out-of-pocket Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Carribean written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pan American Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Pan American Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789275220009
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Fiscal Space for Health in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Pan American Pan American Health Organization and published by Pan American Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries that have made the most progress toward universal coverage have public expenditures in health equivalent to at least 6% of their gross domestic product (GDP), which is the percentage established in PAHO's universal health strategy as the benchmark for the countries. However, while higher expenditure is a prerequisite, it is not enough to combat inequities and advance toward universal health. In addition to greater resources, the quality of the expenditure must be improved, reducing health system inefficiencies. Moreover, public expenditure in health should be sustainably increased in a fiscally responsible manner. The concept of fiscal space for health refers to the ability of governments to provide additional budgetary resources for the health system without affecting the financial position of the public sector or supplanting other socially necessary expenditures. Any analysis of fiscal space, therefore, will attempt to identify the prospects for increasing health expenditure in the short and medium term to address a series of clearly established health needs. These efforts are under way at a critical time in the Region of the Americas, particularly in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, which are engaged in a singular health system reform process. For the first time in history, these countries have formalized their intention of increasing public expenditure in health, putting themselves firmly on the path to real and effective access to health care through the universal health strategy. Without achieving basic well-being at this level, it will be impossible to improve social cohesion and social development in the countries of the Region. This publication brings together and summarizes PAHO's studies on fiscal space for universal health in the Americas and draws on the contributions of the regional forum held in Washington, D.C. on 7-8 December 2015. With this publication, whose target audience is the technical personnel responsible for policy development, decision-makers, and authorities, PAHO hopes to contribute to the analysis and discussion of health financing policies on the path toward universal health.
Author : Cristián Baeza
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804756754
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Beyond Survival written by Cristián Baeza and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America 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 households to protect themselves, against this impoverishment. The authors use empirical evidence from six case studies commissioned for this report, on Argentina, Chile, Columbia, 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.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Out-of-pocket Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines different forms of out-of-pocket expenditures on health care and puts forward efficiency arguments to justify extending social protection in health.
Author : Ramesh Govindaraj
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Health Expenditures in Latin America written by Ramesh Govindaraj and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
ISBN 13 : 9275127239
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Invertir En Salud written by Pan American Health Organization and published by Pan American Health Org. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta publicacion agrupa los informes finales de tres proyectos de investigacion en los que se exploraron los efectos de la inversion en salud sobre el crecimiento economico, la productividad de la familia y el alivio de la pobreza en America Latina y el C
Author : Pan American Health Organization
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Health, Social Equity, and Changing Production Patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Pan American Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264835245
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 presents key indicators on health and health systems in 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries. This first Health at a Glance publication to cover the Latin America and the Caribbean region was prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank.
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ISBN 13 : 9789264679702
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 presents key indicators on health and health systems in 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries. This first Health at a Glance publication to cover the Latin America and the Caribbean region was prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank. Analysis is based on the latest comparable data across almost 100 indicators including equity, health status, determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health expenditure and financing, and quality of care. The editorial discusses the main challenges for the region brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as managing the outbreak as well as mobilising adequate resources and using them efficiently to ensure an effective response to the epidemic. An initial chapter summarises the comparative performance of countries before the crisis, followed by a special chapter about addressing wasteful health spending that is either ineffective or does not lead to improvement in health outcomes so that to direct saved resources where they are urgently needed.
Author : Catherine Overholt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Policy Choices and Practical Problems in Health Economics written by Catherine Overholt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1988 and 1991, the World Bank's Economic Development Institute (EDI) and the Pan American Health Organization sponsored a series of seminars on health economics and financing in Latin America. The seminars were designed for policymakers and managers in the public health sector to help them develop a better understanding of how economists approach decisionmaking and how economic analysis can contribute to making more informed choices when health care resources are scarce. The collection of case studies presented in this book were assembled as a teaching tool for the seminars. Country case studies look at an antimalaria program in Brazil, primary health care in Honduras, the pharmaceutical supply in Jamaica, health from a macroeconomic point of view in Mexico, and financing the health sector in St. Lucia. A brief summary of several basic concepts used in economic and financial analyses serves as an orientation for applying these concepts to the cases.
Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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 : Ramesh Govindaraj
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Health Expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean : Sectoral Investment in Health : Two Articles from Social Science and Medicine written by Ramesh Govindaraj and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
