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Estimating Need, Demand and Supply in Primary Health Care Services: A Local Application in Argentina
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2018-07)
To provide equal access, health care provision should be distributed across geodemographic space based on need. In Argentina, the social security, publicly funded health care and private health care subsectors are responsible ...
"Existimos": Health and social needs of transgender men in Lima, Peru
(Public Library of Science, 2021)
Background The health of transgender men (trans men)-individuals who identify as men and were assigned a female sex assigned at birth-is overlooked globally. This mixed-methods exploratory study sought to understand the ...
Governance of health care networks: Assessment of the health care integrating councils in the context of the health sector reform in Chile Gobierno de redes asistenciales: Evaluación de los consejos integradores de la red asistencial (CIRA) en el contexto
(2013)
Objective. This paper aims at assessing the contribution of Chile's Health Care Integrating Councils (CIRA, Spanish acronym) to strengthening governance in health. Materials and methods. A literature review on the official ...
Inequalities in oral health practices and social space: An exploratory qualitative study
(2008)
This study analyzed the oral health practices and access to dental care of individuals according to their position in social space. The rationale was based on the hypothesis that different positions in social space may ...
Building Community Capacity in Leadership for Primary Health Care in Colombia
(MEDICC Review, 2017)
Primary health care looks beyond clinical services to health promotion and primary prevention at the population level. In 2011, Colombia adopted a normative approach to primary health care, to advance efforts to set health ...
Decentralization and equity of resource allocation: Evidence from Colombia and Chile
(2003)
Objective: To investigate the relation between decentralization and equity of resource allocation in Colombia and Chile. Methods: The "decision space" approach and analysis of expenditures and utilization rates were used ...