Neoliberalism in Latin America: effects on health system reforms

Why neoliberal health reforms have failed in Latin America.

This paper reviews Latin American neoliberal health reforms sponsored by the IMF and the World Bank, and analyzes the impact on the region of decentralization and privatization, the two basic components of the reforms. The second part of the paper examines in some detail the Chilean and Colombian reforms, the two countries that have implemented closely the principles of the neoliberal reform. T...

The Impact of Reforms on Equity in Latin America

Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A Mixed Record

This essay argues that neoliberalism has strengthened the sustainability of democracy in Latin America but limited its quality. Drastic market reform seems to have abetted the survival of competitive civilian rule through its external and internal repercussions. By opening up Latin American countries to the world economy, neoliberalism has exposed them to more of the international pressures for...

[Some comments on the health reforms in Latin America from the Spanish perspective].

5 Actualmente los servicios sanitarios no son sólo un instrumento para la protección de la salud de los ciudadanos, son también el ámbito de intere-ses de sectores económicos de enorme capacidad y poder. Entre ellos, la industria farmacéutica y otras tecnológicas, y la de seguros sanitarios (principalmente las norteamericanas) con vin-culaciones directas con los sectores financieros que hoy dom...

Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America.

Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide financial risk protection. In particular, starting in the 1990s, reforms aimed at strengthening health systems to reduce inequalities in health access and outcomes focused on expansion of universal health coverage, es...