This case study analyzes the progress of Peru's Comprehensive Health Insurance (SIS) and evaluates the challenges that remain to achieving universal health care coverage. Peru is an upper-middle-income country with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of just over US$10,000 (purchasing power parity). The country has grown rapidly in the last decade; the average growth rate was 6.5 percent. However, 28 percent of the population lives in poverty...
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2013/01/01
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Working Paper (Numbered Series)
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2014/12/12
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Peru's comprehensive health insurance and new challenges for universal coverage
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Citation
Francke Ballve,Pedro Andres.
Peru's comprehensive health insurance and new challenges for universal coverage (English). Universal Health Coverage (UNICO) studies series ; no. 11 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/371851468086931725