Setting the context for universal health coverage reforms in LAC -- Universal health coverage policies in LAC …

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 …

In order to support poor families in the developing world to seek and use health care, a multi-pronged strategy is … needed on both the supply and the demand side of health care. A demand-side program called Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs …) strives to reduce poverty and also increase food consumption, school attendance, and use of preventive health care. Since 1997 …

Health constitutes a fundamental aspect of our well-being. It is also a key factor in determining our contribution to … market and non-market output. Health inequality refers to the unequal realization of health outcomes between different groups … in the population. Systematic disparities in health outcomes and in access to health resources not only undermine basic …