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Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage

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dc.contributor.authorBuisman, Leander R.
dc.contributor.authorWagstaff, Adam
dc.contributor.authorEozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu
dc.contributor.authorDmytraczenko, Tania
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Gisele
dc.contributor.authorCercone, James
dc.contributor.authorDíaz, Yadira
dc.contributor.authorMaceira, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorBredenkamp, Caryn
dc.contributor.authorMolina, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorMori Sarti, Flávia
dc.contributor.authorParaje, Guillermo
dc.contributor.authorRuiz, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorScott, John
dc.contributor.authorValdivia, Martin
dc.contributor.authorWerneck, Heitor
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-09T15:39:36Z
dc.date.available2015-10-09T15:39:36Z
dc.date.issued2015-10
dc.description.abstractTwo commonly used metrics for assessing progress toward universal health coverage involve assessing citizens’ rights to health care and counting the number of people who are in a financial protection scheme that safeguards them from high health care payments. On these metrics most countries in Latin America have already “reached” universal health coverage. Neither metric indicates, however, whether a country has achieved universal health coverage in the now commonly accepted sense of the term: that everyone—irrespective of their ability to pay—gets the health services they need without suffering undue financial hardship. We operationalized a framework proposed by the World Bank and the World Health Organization to monitor progress under this definition and then constructed an overall index of universal health coverage achievement. We applied the approach using data from 112 household surveys from 1990 to 2013 for all twenty Latin American countries. No country has achieved a perfect universal health coverage score, but some countries (including those with more integrated health systems) fare better than others. All countries except one improved in overall universal health coverage over the time period analyzed.en
dc.identifier.citationHealth Affairs
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/22760
dc.identifier.issn0278-2715
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/22760
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherProject HOPE
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectUHC
dc.subjectuniversal health coverage
dc.subjecthealth care reform
dc.titleAssessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverageen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.date.disclosure2017-04-01
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-06T10:58:22.068664Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontentExternal Content
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1453
okr.journal.nbpages1704-12
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeLatin America and Caribbean
okr.region.geographicalCaribbean
okr.region.geographicalCentral America
okr.region.geographicalLatin America
okr.relation.associatedurlhttp://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/10/1704
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Insurance
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Systems Development & Reform
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health and Poverty
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Equity and Development
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty and Health
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group (DECRG)
okr.volume34(10)
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