, public policy can be driven by factors that are least likely to improve the population's health. -- Health Care ; Health … Financing ; Access ; Happiness ; Health Policy ; Latin America ; Caribbean …

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

Public health observatories proactively investigate health issues to provide robust analytical evidence to policy … makers. This type of organization has different characteristics from other public health institutions, such as information …-gathering bodies, academic public health departments, or state employed public health practitioners. Governments in Latin America have …

This article presents the main findings of two OECD Surveys of Senior Budget and Health Officials conducted in the … prominent role of agents in the health system across the region, including social health insurance agencies and subnational … countries in the region have adopted such reforms to improve the efficiency of health expenditure to achieve universal health …

In 2018, the Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD launched a survey to collect information on key health … these countries. It describes country-specific arrangements to organise the population coverage against health risks and the … financing of health spending. It depicts the organisation of health care delivery, focusing on the public/private mix of health …

This paper examines the relationship between public financial management (PFM), the financing of health interventions …, and health outcomes. Specifically, the paper econometrically tests whether the effect of PFM on under-five (U5) mortality … depends on the relevance of public sector health financing. Employing OLS on a sample of 215 observations indicates that a one …