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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2017/01/01
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Toward universal health coverage and equity in Latin America and the Caribbean : evidence from selected countries
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health
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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 (Spanish). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/886981471335079059