Reshaping health care in Latin America : a comparative analysis of health care reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico / Edited by Sonia Fleury, Susana Belmartino, and Enis Baris.

Format:

• Book
• Government document

Contributor:

• Teixeira, Sonia M. Fleury (Sonia Maria Fleury)
• Belmartino, Susana.
• Baris, Enis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Health care reform--Argentina.
• Health care reform--Brazil.
• Health care reform--Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In many countries of the world, including Canada, arguments are made for a private-public mix in the financing and provision of health services. Proponents claim that such a mix would improve both access and quality of health care. Opponents counter that it would create a two-tiered system, narrowing the range of options available to the lower socioeconomic segments of society and ultimately harming the equitable delivery of quality health care. This book presents empirical evidence on this contentious and highly politicized issue. Uniquely, it integrates qualitative and quantitative analyses of health care reforms at various stages of implementation in three countries of Latin America. The book sheds light on important issues pertaining to accessibility and equity and, in its approach, sets precedents and provides guidelines for further comparative work on health care reform.

Contents:

• Contents; Foreword; Preface; Section I. Introduction; Chapter 1. Reforming Health Care in Latin America: Challenges and Options; The Social Protection Model in Latin America; After a Decade of Reforms in Latin America; Some Issues in Comparative Analysis; Methodological Options; Section II. Analysis of Health Care Policies; Chapter 2. The Context and Process of Health Care Reform in Argentina; Introduction; Background Influences; The Reform Process; Implementation; Reform of the Public Subsystem: Decentralization of the Hospital System; Evaluation; Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Reorganizing the Health Care System in ArgentinaIntroduction; Structural Features; Transformations in the Health Service Systems - Organizational Models; Health Service System Regulation; Discussion; Chapter 4. The Context and Process of Health Care Reform In Brazil; Introduction; Background Influences; The Reform Process; The Reform Implementation; Evaluation; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Reorganizing the Health Care System in Brazil; Introduction; Structural Features; Transformations in the Health Care System; Conclusion
• Chapter 6. The Context and Process of Health Care Reform In MexicoIntroduction; Background Influences; Reform Process; Conclusions; Chapter 7. Reorganizing the Health Care System in Mexico; Introduction; Structural Features; Changes in the Health Service System; Section III. Determinants of Utilization of Health Care Services; Chapter 8. A Population-based Survey in Three Cities of Latin America; Introduction; Determinants of the Use of Health Care Services in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico; Discussion; Appendix 1. Operational Definitions of the Variables in the Model; Appendix 2. Path Diagrams
• Section IV. ConclusionsChapter 9. Reshaping Health Care Systems in Latin America: Toward Fairness?; Major Economic and Social Tendencies; The Health Reform Process; Comparative Analysis of the Health Care Reforms; The Make-up of a Reformed Health Care System; Lessons from the experience; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Contributing Authors; Bibliography

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277).

ISBN:

• 1-280-84997-5
• 9786610849970
• 1-55250-311-9

OCLC:

923767354