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Beyond Survival breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial protection from the costs of health care. The evidence and discussion support the need to consider financial protection, in addition to health status, as a policy objective when setting priorities for health systems. <p>This book reviews the Latin American experience with health reform in the last 20 years and the fundamentals of health system financing, using new evidence to show the magnitude and mechanisms that determine the impoverishing effects of health events (diseases, accidents, and those of the life cycle). It provides options for policy makers on how to protect, and help household to protect themselves, against this impoverishment.</p><p>The authors use empirical evidence from six case studies commissioned for this report, on Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico. This book provides policy makers with a solid conceptual basis for decisions on the contents of mandatory health insurance benefit packages, choices of financing mechanisms, and the roles of public policy in this field.</p><p>Beyond Survival provides an in-depth analysis of, and organizational alternat
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- Author
- Christian Baeza, Truman Packard, Fernando Montenegro-torres
- Publisher
- The World Bank
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804756747
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Health & Fitness, Social Science
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