Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023
This second edition of Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank, presents a set of key indicators of health status, determinants of health, healthcare resources and utilisation, healthcare expenditure and financing, quality of care, health workforce, and ageing across 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries. Each of the indicators is presented in a user-friendly format, consisting of charts illustrating variations across countries, and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings conveyed by the data, and a methodological box on the definition of the indicators and any limitations in data comparability. This edition of Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean also provides thematic analyses on two key topics for building more resilient health in the LAC region: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on LAC healthcare systems, and climate change and health.
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Allied health professionals
In addition to doctors, allied health professionals provide major health services for a wide variety of needs, supporting ancillary health outcomes tied to quality of care. As continuity of care and integrated care become key considerations in primary healthcare, new team-based organisational models of care place a greater emphasis on a wider range of providers, including dentists, pharmacists, and community health workers (OECD, 2020[1]). In Latin America and the Caribbean, the importance of allied health professionals is heightened since the COVID‑19 pandemic: the latest OECD research on primary healthcare in the region notes that an expansion of community health worker schemes may support improved health workforce availability where pressures on health system capacity persist (OECD, 2022[2]).
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