Public Health And Beyond In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Sherri L. Porcelain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000451238

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Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean by Sherri L. Porcelain Pdf

Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reflections from the Field explores the diverse and complex public health landscape, from global to regional to local, by considering historical and socio-cultural factors to contextualize the ongoing public health crisis. Drawing on four decades of field experience, research, and teaching, Sherri L. Porcelain uses case studies to offer a realistic view of the public heath struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean. Using specific countries as regional examples, the book shows how population health has been inextricably linked to political, economic, social, cultural, ethical, ecological, environmental, and technological factors. Chapters in this book will examine the history of public health issues associated with international development, globalization and the international political economy, disasters, diplomacy, and security studies coupled with the changing role of key actors driving the global and regional agendas. The final chapter examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for the future of public health. This book is recommended for undergraduate students interested in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as others concerned with global and regional population health challenges.

Author : Truman G. Packard,Cristian C. Baeza
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : OECD,The World Bank
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264732629

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Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023 by OECD,The World Bank Pdf

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 : María Eugenia Bonilla-Chacín
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800177

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Promoting Healthy Living in Latin America and the Caribbean by María Eugenia Bonilla-Chacín Pdf

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 : Tania Dmytraczenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066418805

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

Author : Tania Dmytraczenko,Gisele Almeida
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Catherine Overholt,Margaret K. Saunders
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821330128

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Policy Choices and Practical Problems in Health Economics by Catherine Overholt,Margaret K. Saunders Pdf

Conservation of biological diversity is important for sustainable development, and decentralization is a key aspect of good governance. Whether decentralization promotes conservation and if so, under what conditions, is the topic of this book. This study draws insights from field experience and traces the complex interactions among various factors involved, such as degree and type of decentralization, community participation, institutional capacity, and economic incentives. Local and international experts present case studies from experiences in Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, Russia, and Zimbabwe. Subsequent chapters review 32 World Bank and Global Environment Facility projects and their impact on habitat conservation, describe a possible model of a decentralized country, and look at lessons learned from the overall study.

Author : Darién J. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024859

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Slavery and Beyond by Darién J. Davis Pdf

The slave market in Seville, while still relatively small, became one of the most active in Europe. Many called the city the 'New Babylon.' Northern and sub-Saharan Africans comprised more than 50 percent of the inhabitants of several of Seville's neighborhoods. The African populations became so socially and politically important that in 1475 the Crown appointed Juan de Valladolid, its royal servant and mayoral, to represent Seville's Afro-Iberian community. Churches and charities catered to its spiritual and material needs.

Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000535498

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Health Care for the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean by Carmelo Mesa-Lago Pdf

Author : Yuliya Semenova,Natalya Glushkova,Antonio Sarría-Santamera
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832537800

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Public health challenges in post-soviet countries during and beyond COVID-19 by Yuliya Semenova,Natalya Glushkova,Antonio Sarría-Santamera Pdf

Author : Carmen Pagés,Carlos Scartascini,Rita Funaro,Lucía Madrigal,Suzanne Duryea,Juan Camilo Chaparro,María Victoria Rodríguez-Pombo,Eduardo Lora,Pablo Sanguinetti,William D. Savedoff,Juan Carlos Navarro,Aimee Verdisco,Mariana Alfonso,Andrew Powell
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597820844

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Beyond Facts by Carmen Pagés,Carlos Scartascini,Rita Funaro,Lucía Madrigal,Suzanne Duryea,Juan Camilo Chaparro,María Victoria Rodríguez-Pombo,Eduardo Lora,Pablo Sanguinetti,William D. Savedoff,Juan Carlos Navarro,Aimee Verdisco,Mariana Alfonso,Andrew Powell Pdf

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates Latin America-specific questions, the Inter-American Development Bank surveyed people from throughout the region and found that perceptions of quality of life are often very different from the reality. These surprising findings have enormous significance for the political economy of the region and provide a wealth of information for policymakers and development practitioners to feast upon.

Author : Camille Huggins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031552939

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Prospects and Challenges for Caribbean Societies in and Beyond COVID-19 by Camille Huggins Pdf

Author : Clement Bezold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drugs
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004455630

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21st Century Health Care in Latin America and the Caribbean by Clement Bezold Pdf

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 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264692894

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Health at a Glance by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,World Health Organization Pdf

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.