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Health Services in Latin America and Asia

Health Services in Latin America and Asia

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Publisher's Synopsis

On either side of the globe, poor people often do not have access to the health services they need. Improvements in health care systems in Asia have lagged behind economic development, and progress in expanding health coverage in Latin America has been skewed across income levels.;This text takes a close look at how countries in both regions provide health-care services, including the strategies that work and the problems that persist. The book documents encouraging progress in Bolivia, Brazil, China and Vietnam, and important preventive care programmes in Central America and Thailand. It also examines health services in Chile, Colombia, the Philippines and Malaysia, as well as the health system and insurance model in Japan.;Even though public and preventive health require specific and sustained allocations, both regions continue to use health insurance and other supply mechanisms to expand health service coverage. The book recommends broadening the supply of services through family doctors and community health workers, an alternative approach that would likely improve the equity, efficiency and sustainability of services.

Book information

ISBN: 9781931003100
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Imprint: Inter-American Development Bank
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.1098
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 298
Weight: 535g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 21mm