Healthcare In Latin America

Author : David S. Dalton,Douglas J. Weatherford
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683403135

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Healthcare in Latin America by David S. Dalton,Douglas J. Weatherford Pdf

Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, Healthcare in Latin America is the first volume to gather research by many of the foremost scholars working on the topic and region in fields such as history, sociology, women’s studies, political science, and cultural studies. Through this unique eclectic approach, contributors explore the development and representation of public health in countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and the United States. They examine how national governments, whether reactionary or revolutionary, have approached healthcare as a means to political legitimacy and popular support. Several essays contrast modern biomedicine-based treatment with Indigenous healing practices. Other topics include universal health coverage, childbirth, maternal care, forced sterilization, trans and disabled individuals’ access to care, intersexuality, and healthcare disparities, many of which are discussed through depictions in films and literature. As economic and political conditions have shifted amid modernization efforts, independence movements, migrations, and continued inequities, so have the policies and practices of healthcare also developed and changed. This book offers a rich overview of how the stories of healthcare in Latin America are intertwined with the region’s political, historical, and cultural identities. Contributors: Benny J. Andrés, Jr. | Javier Barroso | Katherine E. Bliss | Eric D. Carter | David S. Dalton | Carlos S. Dimas | Sophie Esch | Renata Forste | David L. García León | Javier E. García León | Jethro Hernández Berrones | Katherine Hirschfeld | Emily J. Kirk | Gabriela León-Pérez | Manuel F. Medina | Christopher D. Mellinger | Alicia Z. Miklos | Nicole L. Pacino | Douglas J. Weatherford Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780889369238

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Reshaping Health Care in Latin America by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Author : David S. Dalton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1683403444

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Healthcare in Latin America by David S. Dalton Pdf

"Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, contributors to this volume explore the development and representation of public health in Latin American countries"--

Author : Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023673

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Medicine and Public Health in Latin America by Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer Pdf

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

Author : Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055087897

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Healthcare Reform and Poverty in Latin America by Peter Lloyd-Sherlock Pdf

Most Latin American countries are now attempting the radical reform of their healthcare financing and delivery systems. In many cases, these reforms complement and contribute to broader neo-liberal orthodoxies of economic and social reform. Key strategies include decentralising hospital administration and the promotion of private health insurance. However, experiences across the region are quite diverse, and countries such as Cuba persist with a system of healthcare based on very different principles. This book identifies key problems facing healthcare systems in the region and evaluates the reforms that have been implemented to date. It pays particular attention to problems of implementation and the impact that changes to health policy are having on poor and vulnerable groups.

Author : Ligia Malagón de Salazar,Roberto Carlos Luján Villar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319672922

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Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America by Ligia Malagón de Salazar,Roberto Carlos Luján Villar Pdf

This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries’ capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent with their own agendas not only hampers this goal, but also makes the territory invisible, hiding the real problems faced by most Latin American countries, diminishing the richness of local knowledge production, and hindering the development of relevant proposals that consider the territory’s conditions and cultural identity. Departing from this general analysis, the authors search for answers to the following questions: Why, despite the importance of the theoretical advances r egarding actions to address social and health inequities, haven’t Latin American countries been able to produce the expected results? Why do successful initiatives only take place within the framework of pilot projects? Why does the ideology of health promotion and health in all policies mainly permeate structures of the health sector, but not other sectors? Why are intersectoral actions conjunctural initiatives, which often fail to evolve into permanent practices? Based on an extensive literature review, case studies, personal experiences, and interviews with key informants in the region, Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America presents a strategy that uses monitoring and evaluation practices for enhancing the capacity of Latin American and other low and middle-income countries to implement sustainable processes to foster inclusiveness, equity, social justice and human rights. p/pp

Author : Tania Dmytraczenko,Gisele Almeida
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464804557

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Toward Universal Health Coverage and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean by Tania Dmytraczenko,Gisele Almeida Pdf

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 : Emily E Vasquez,Amaya G. Perez-Brumer,Richard Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000071597

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Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America by Emily E Vasquez,Amaya G. Perez-Brumer,Richard Parker Pdf

This book explores the legacy of the Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health (LASM-CH) movements and other key approaches—including human rights activism and popular opposition to neoliberal governance—that have each distinguished the struggle for collective health in Latin America during the twentieth and now into the twnety-first century. At a time when global health has been pushed to adopt increasingly conservative agendas in the wake of global financial crisis and amidst the rise of radical-right populist politics, attention to the legacies of Latin America’s epistemological innovations and social movement action are especially warranted. This collection addresses three crosscutting themes: First, how LASM-CH perspectives have taken root as an element of international cooperation and solidarity in the health arena in the region and beyond, into the twenty-firstcentury. Second, how LASM-CH perspectives have been incorporated and restyled into major contemporary health system reforms in the region. Third, how elements of the LASM-CH legacy mark contemporary health social movements in the region, alongside additional key influences on collective action for health at present. Working at the nexus of activism, policy, and health equity, this multidisciplinary collection offers new perspective on struggles for justice in twenty-first-century Latin America. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Global Public Health.

Author : Ricardo A. Bitran,D. Keith McInnes
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821323415

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The Demand for Health Care in Latin America by Ricardo A. Bitran,D. Keith McInnes Pdf

Spanish summary. The full report examines the public policies of 8 high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) from 1965 to 1990. It seeks to uncover the role those policies played in the dramatic economic growth, improved human welfare, and more equitable income distribution in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan (China), and Thailand. HPAEs stabilized their economies with sound development policies that led to fast growth. They were committed to sharing the new prosperity by making income distribution more equitable. Their public policies promoted rapid capital accumulation by making banks more reliable and encouraging high levels of domestic savings. They increased the skilled labor force by providing universal primary schooling and better primary and secondary education. Agricultural policies supported productivity, while requiring only modest taxes. HPAEs kept price distortions in check and welcomed new technology and FDI. Legal and regulatory structures created a positive business environment. Cooperation between governments and private enterprises was fostered. Beyond the fundamentals of accepted macroeconomic management, HPAEs adopted policies at variance with the notion of the level playing field of open-market free enterprise. HPAEs targeted key industries for rapid development. In key areas, resource allocation was strictly managed. Trade in manufactured exports was promoted by government-established marketing institutions. Analysts disagree about the effectiveness of such interventions, but agree that without the foundation of macroeconomic stability and development of human and physical capital, the expansion would not have been so dramatic and sustainable. This report reviews the basic development policies of HPAEs that created macroeconomic stability. It explains why most countries should not use government interventions in today's changing global economy.

Author : Jennie Gamlin,Sahra Gibbon,Paola M. Sesia,Lina Berrio
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787355828

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Critical Medical Anthropology by Jennie Gamlin,Sahra Gibbon,Paola M. Sesia,Lina Berrio Pdf

Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring work from scholars doing and engaging with ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes that are central to contemporary Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of inequality, embodiment of history, indigeneity, non-communicable diseases, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and judicialisation, as these relate to health. The collection of ethnographically informed research, including original theoretical contributions, reconsiders the broader relevance of CMA perspectives for addressing current global healthcare challenges from and of Latin America. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices, it addresses challenges of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic diseases, the pharmaceutical industry and questions of agency, political economy, identity, ethnicity, and human rights.

Author : Pinto, Diana M.,Regalia, Ferdinando,Perez-Cuevas, Ricardo,Marín, Tania,Astorga, Ignacio,Máñez, Miguel Angel,Gutiérrez Alba, Gaudencio,Jaramillo Castell, Fabiola,Minué, Sergio,Muños Hernández, José Alberto,Reyes Morales, Hortensia,Ricaurte Cepeda, Melissa,Santilli, Irene,Yépez Chamorro, María Clara,Cejas, Cintia,Juárez Ramírez, Clara
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781597824132

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Health Networks in Action by Pinto, Diana M.,Regalia, Ferdinando,Perez-Cuevas, Ricardo,Marín, Tania,Astorga, Ignacio,Máñez, Miguel Angel,Gutiérrez Alba, Gaudencio,Jaramillo Castell, Fabiola,Minué, Sergio,Muños Hernández, José Alberto,Reyes Morales, Hortensia,Ricaurte Cepeda, Melissa,Santilli, Irene,Yépez Chamorro, María Clara,Cejas, Cintia,Juárez Ramírez, Clara Pdf

Integrated Health Service Delivery Networks (IHSDN) based on primary health care (PHC) are the most promising solution for health systems to satisfy the health needs of the population and to address access, efficiency, quality and equity challenges faced by health systems of the world. PHCs essential attributes (people and family centered care, comprehensiveness, continuity, longitudinality) position this approach as one of the key strategies for countries to meet the aspiration of achieving universal health coverage. Creating care networks has been a common thread running through Latin America and the Caribbeans health policy agendas. In terms of actually putting the IHSDN model in action, there is a wide range of interpretations and experiences, with designs, scales, organizational methods, and maturity levels that vary within and between countries. This book shares evidence of the progress made in forming and launching IHSDN in Latin America based on four case studies conducted in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. The results were found by systematically applying an instrument that collects regional information on the context and features of the IHSDNs governance, funding, care models, and IHSDN management models. The books chapters describe the characteristics of IHSDN in the four studied countries, lessons are drawn from how these IHSDN have been designed and implemented, challenges for the future are identified and recommendations are provided on what will it take to consolidate the IHSDN model in Latin America. The hypothetical story of Dioselina, illustrates throughout the book the obstacles and difficulties that arise for a diabetic patient when using health services that are not people-centered. The results shed light on how prepared IHSDN in this region are to provide patient-centered care and where to focus efforts for improvement. The evidence found in this study will help develop and advance PHC in Latin America.

Author : Truman G. Packard,Cristian C. Baeza
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 082136572X

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Beyond Survival by Truman G. Packard,Cristian C. Baeza Pdf

'Beyond Survival' 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 household to protect themselves,against this impoverishment. The authors use empirical evidence from six case studies commissioned for this report, on Argentina, Chile, Colombia, 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.

Author : Connie Weil,Joseph L. Scarpaci
Publisher : Prisma Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Health
ISBN : 0910235368

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Health and Health Care in Latin America During the Lost Decade by Connie Weil,Joseph L. Scarpaci Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309048392

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The Epidemiological Transition by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

This book examines issues concerning how developing countries will have to prepare for demographic and epidemiologic change. Much of the current literature focuses on the prevalence of specific diseases and their economic consequences, but a need exists to consider the consequences of the epidemiological transition: the change in mortality patterns from infectious and parasitic diseases to chronic and degenerative ones. Among the topics covered are the association between the health of children and adults, the strong orientation of many international health organizations toward infant and child health, and how the public and private sectors will need to address and confront the large-scale shifts in disease and demographic characteristics of populations in developing countries.

Author : José Núñez del Arco
Publisher : IDB
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1931003106

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Health Services in Latin America and Asia by José Núñez del Arco Pdf

On either side of the globe, poor people often do not have access to the health services they need. Improvements in health care systems in Asia have lagged behind economic development, and progress in expanding health coverage in Latin America has been skewed across income levels. Health Services in Latin America and Asia takes a close look at how countries in both regions provide health care services, including the strategies that work and the problems that persist. The book documents encouraging progress in Bolivia, Brazil, China and Vietnam, and important preventive care programs in Central America and Thailand. It also examines health services in Chile, Colombia, the Philippines and Malaysia, as well as the health system and insurance model in Japan.Even though public and preventive health require specific and sustained allocations, both regions continue to use health insurance and other supply mechanisms to expand health service coverage. The book recommends broadening the supply of services through family doctors and community health workers, an alternative approach that would likely improve the equity, efficiency and sustainability of services.