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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Financing of healthcare from government and compulsory health insurance schemes
Health system financing arrangements can be broadly classified according to their compulsory or voluntary nature. Countries that predominantly finance healthcare through government schemes provide care coverage to individuals based on their residency. In other cases, systems that are financed with compulsory health insurance schemes (either through public or private entities) linked to the payment of social contributions or health insurance premiums, provide care coverage based on affiliation. In addition to these, a varying proportion of healthcare spending consists of households’ out-of-pocket payments – either as standalone payments or as part of co-payment arrangements – as well as various forms of voluntary payment schemes such as voluntary health insurance. In the LAC region, substantial fragmentation in health systems often leads to coexisting financing schemes and in some cases, overlap. There is substantial heterogeneity in financing arrangements in LAC, where most standard models of public financing exist in the region (Lorenzoni et al., 2019[1]).
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