From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the … implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other …. Prior to the reforms, a quarter of the Colombian population had health insurance. Subsidies failed to reach the poor, who …

This report represents the collaborative effort of three partners: the World Bank, the Pan American Health Organization … (PAHO), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This book explores trends and differentials in women's health …; examples of good practices in delivery and financing of women's health programs and the key dimensions of women's health that …

The report explores the convergence of the health sector reform processes and the improvement of sexual and … reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean. It includes the results of three sub-regional meetings, sponsored by the …

This book uses case studies and cross-regional analyses to examine changes in basic health services, challenges for … social health insurance, improvements in the equity and efficacy of health services, and changes in public and private sector … roles in health care delivery in Latin America and Asia.Abstract: Esta publicación es la primera de una serie que compara …

'Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shock's in Latin America 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 …

This is the first study that uniformly analyzes health perceptions in all of Latin America and tests in a systematic … of health self-assessment questions: i) health satisfaction; ii) health status on a scale of 0- 10; and iii) the EuroQol …-national comparisons of health perceptions, but it does not find support for the widely held view that the same applies within countries …

health tend to be higher the lower the nation's level of economic development. This paper considers a discrete choice model …

, public policy can be driven by factors that are least likely to improve the population's health. …