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Title Reshaping health care in Latin America : a comparative analysis of health care reform in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico / edited by Sonia Fleury, Susana Belmartino and Enis Baris
Published Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword; Preface; Section I. Introduction; Section II. Analysis of Health Care Policies; Section III. Determinants of Utilization of Health Care Services; Section IV. Conclusions; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Contributing Authors; Bibliography
Summary In many countries of the world, including Canada, arguments are made for a private-public mix in the financing and provision of health services. Proponents claim that such a mix would improve both access and quality of health care. Opponents counter that it would create a two-tiered system, narrowing the range of options available to the lower socioeconomic segments of society and ultimately harming the equitable delivery of quality health care. This book presents empirical evidence on this contentious and highly politicized issue. Uniquely, it integrates qualitative and quantitative analyses of health care reforms at various stages of implementation in three countries of Latin America
Notes "April 2000"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (269-278)
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Subject Health care reform -- Argentina
Health care reform -- Brazil
Health care reform -- Mexico
Health care reform.
Health Care Reform
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Prestacao de cuidados de saude.
Reforma do setor saude.
Health care reform
SUBJECT Argentina
Brazil
Mexico
Subject Argentina
Brazil
Mexico
Genre/Form Electronic books
Statistics
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Teixeira, Sonia M. Fleury (Sonia Maria Fleury)
Belmartino, Susana.
Baris, Enis.
International Development Research Centre (Canada), issuing body.
ISBN 9781552503119
1552503119
0889369232
9780889369238
1280849975
9781280849978