Overcoming social segregation in health care in Latin America
Latin America continues to segregate different social groups into separate health-system segments, including two separate public sector blocks: a well resourced social security for salaried workers and their families and a Ministry of Health serving poor and vulnerable people with low standards of q...
- Autores:
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Guerrero Carvajal, Ramiro
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of investigation
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad ICESI
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio ICESI
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/80010
- Acceso en línea:
- http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673614616470
http://hdl.handle.net/10906/80010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61647-0
- Palabra clave:
- Sistema de salud
Seguridad social
Ministerio de Salud
Desigualdad económica
Economía
Economics
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | Latin America continues to segregate different social groups into separate health-system segments, including two separate public sector blocks: a well resourced social security for salaried workers and their families and a Ministry of Health serving poor and vulnerable people with low standards of quality and needing a frequently impoverishing payment at point of service. This segregation shows Latin America's longstanding economic and social inequality, cemented by an economic framework that predicted that economic growth would lead to rapid formalisation of the economy. Today, the institutional setup that organises the social segregation in health care is perceived, despite improved life expectancy and other advances, as a barrier to fulfilling the right to health, embodied in the legislation of many Latin American countries. |
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