Toward universal health coverage and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence from selected countries (English)

Over the past three decades, many countries in 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 entitlements to care. Reforms have been accompanied by a rise in public spending for health, financed largely by general revenues that prioritize or explicitly target the population without capacity to pay. Political...

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Dmytraczenko,Tania [editor];

Almeida;

Gisele [editor];
Document Date
2015/06/11
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Report Number
97473
Volume No
1
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1
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Latin America,
Disclosure Date
2015/06/17
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Disclosed
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Toward universal health coverage and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence from selected countries
Keywords
leading causes of mortality

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Dmytraczenko,Tania [editor]; Almeida; Gisele [editor].

Toward universal health coverage and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence from selected countries (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/549041468188656462

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