Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage
Two 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...
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okr-10986-227602021-04-23T14:04:11Z Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage Wagstaff, Adam Dmytraczenko, Tania Almeida, Gisele Buisman, Leander R. Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Bredenkamp, Caryn Cercone, James Díaz, Yadira Maceira, Daniel Molina, Silvia Mori Sarti, Flávia Paraje, Guillermo Ruiz, Fernando Scott, John Valdivia, Martin Werneck, Heitor UHC universal health coverage health care reform Two 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. 2015-10-09T15:39:36Z 2015-10-09T15:39:36Z 2015-10 Journal Article Health Affairs 0278-2715 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22760 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Project HOPE Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Caribbean Central America Latin America |
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UHC universal health coverage health care reform Wagstaff, Adam Dmytraczenko, Tania Almeida, Gisele Buisman, Leander R. Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Bredenkamp, Caryn Cercone, James Díaz, Yadira Maceira, Daniel Molina, Silvia Mori Sarti, Flávia Paraje, Guillermo Ruiz, Fernando Scott, John Valdivia, Martin Werneck, Heitor Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage |
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Two 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. |
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Wagstaff, Adam Dmytraczenko, Tania Almeida, Gisele Buisman, Leander R. Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Bredenkamp, Caryn Cercone, James Díaz, Yadira Maceira, Daniel Molina, Silvia Mori Sarti, Flávia Paraje, Guillermo Ruiz, Fernando Scott, John Valdivia, Martin Werneck, Heitor |
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Wagstaff, Adam Dmytraczenko, Tania Almeida, Gisele Buisman, Leander R. Eozenou, Patrick Hoang-Vu Bredenkamp, Caryn Cercone, James Díaz, Yadira Maceira, Daniel Molina, Silvia Mori Sarti, Flávia Paraje, Guillermo Ruiz, Fernando Scott, John Valdivia, Martin Werneck, Heitor |
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Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage |
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Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage |
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Assessing Latin America’s Progress Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage |
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