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Public policy for pensions, health and sickness insurance: potential lessons from Sweden for Latin America
(ECLAC, 2006-07)
Abstract This paper discusses the rationale of social insurance and social insurance institutions as they have emerged and developed in economically mature nations. The aim of the paper is to present discuss experience ...
Public policy for pensions, health and sickness insurance
(ECLAC, 2006-01)
This document is prepared by Edward Palmer, Consultant of the Project ¨Inclusion of the European Nordic Model in the debate concerning reform of social protection schemes in Latin American and the Caribbean¨ (SWE/05/001). ...
The health insurance market: lessons on the conflict between equivalence and solidarity
(2012-12)
Health-care systems are highly diverse, sometimes even sharing few basic aspects of design. In developing countries, demographic profiles, poverty, the labour market and public finances are such that a comprehensive approach ...
Impact of the Guaranteed Health Plan with a single community premium on the demand for private health insurance in Chile
(2017-12)
In 2012, a Guaranteed Health Plan for the private health system was submitted to the Chilean National Congress, with the aim of offering a standardized flat-rate health-care plan. This paper evaluates the impact that the ...
The financial protection impact of the public health system and private insurance in Brazil
(2008-08)
This research assesses the effectiveness of the Brazilian public healthsystem and of private insurance in Brazil in providing financial protectionin health care. The determinants of catastrophic health expendituresare ...
Health benefits guarantees in Latin America: equity and quasi market restructuring at the beginning of the millennium
(ECLAC, 2006-05)
Health quasi-markets aim to introduce competition into the public sphere by separating functions in order to improve efficiency and quality. In different public-private mixes, according to the morphology of health ...
A comparative study of health care policy in the United States and Canada: what policymakers in Latin America might and might not learn from their neighbors to the North
(ECLAC, 1997-06)
Abstract The purpose of this comparative study of the structure and operation of the health care systems in the United Stetes and Canada is to draw lessons from those experiences that may be relevant to the countries of ...
Millennium development goals: progress towards the right to health in Latin america and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2008-08)
Enormous differences in health within and between countries intertwine closely with degrees of social disadvantage, and when People's health is at the mercy of their individual situations, health-care inequalities can ...
Quality of life: a compendium of social statistics of five Caribbean countries (1995-2001)
(ECLAC, 2001-12-17)
Abstract Quality of Life: A compendium of selected social statistics of five Caribbean countries (1995-2001), is the second in a series on social statistics to be published by the Economic Commission for Latin America ...