La Garant A De Prestaciones En Salud En Am Rica Latina

Este estudio considera en primer lugar la introducción de garantías en países que se caracterizan por grandes rezagos en la cobertura de salud, y trata con más detalle el caso de Guatemala y muy brevemente Bolivia. En segundo término se analiza minuciosamente Chile, mostrando la superación parcial de la dualidad de su sistema de salud que las garantías implican. Finalmente se considera la reciente experiencia de México, a fin de mostrar el sentido de las garantías del seguro popular de salud en un sistema de aseguramiento que ha adolecido de una gran segmentación.

Foreword -- Summary -- Introduction -- Social policy and protection -- Social protection in Latin America in the new millennium -- Co-responsibility transfer programmes and social protection -- Towards a comprehensive social protection system -- Co-responsibility transfer programmes as a gateway into social protection -- Consolidating social protection in Latin America: Main challenges -- Bibliography -- Social protection and economic, social and cultural rights -- Three model co-responsibility transfer programmes in the region -- Estimated cost of non-contributory cash transfers -- Statistical annex

This paper explores the role of earlier trade liberalization and market responses in shaping the emerging trade agenda in North America. The paper draws on experience in Europe in forging a more integrated market to point to the benefits that would accrue to Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans from taking deliberate steps to reduce the impact of border administration, to promote greater regulatory convergence, and to forge the necessary institutional infrastructure to govern deepening cross-border integration. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN).

Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Using survey data on technical assistance projects that was collected by the International Competition Network's Competition Policy Implementation Working Group during 2004 and 2005, the author estimates the effect of different types of technical assistance on several performance measures of recipient competition authorities. According to the author, a clear pattern of results emerges. Taken at face value, and supposing that maximizing the positive effect on recipient authority performance is the sole objective of a technical assistance programme in competition law and enforcement, these findings have implications for the mix of technical assistance activities that could be offered to competition authorities.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to design effective government interventions in five areas - financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behavior - to improve the performance and equity of health systems around the world.