Health Care Financing in Central America and the Andean Region: A Workshop Report

Dieter K. Zschock

doi:10.1017/S0023879100033148

Health Care Financing in Central America and the Andean Region: A Workshop Report

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Dieter K. Zschock

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SUNY at Stony Brook

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The goal of “health for all by the year 2000” was endorsed by member nations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at the International Conference on Primary Health Care, held at Alma Ata, U.S.S.R., in September 1978. The goal of attaining total health care coverage of the population had been agreed upon by the Ministers of Health of the Americas at their III Special Meeting in 1972. Meeting again in 1977, the ministers took stock of the region's accomplishments and remaining shortcomings in preparation for the Alma Ata conference. They concluded that their institutional health care systems, which bear the major responsibility for providing total coverage, had not yet attained this goal; among the reasons mentioned were institutional rigidities that made it difficult to determine and respond to unattended needs for health care, and the financial inaccessibility to large population groups of the institutions providing health services. These problems were compounded by a “significant increase in the cost of medical care … which reduces the resources available for providing universal coverage.”

Type: Research Reports and Notes
Information: Latin American Research Review , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , 1980 , pp. 149 - 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0023879100033148 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © 1980 by Latin American Research Review

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The workshop was held in Melgar, Colombia, 23–27 April 1979. It was sponsored by the International Health Programs Division of the American Public Health Association (APHA) under contract AID/ta–C–1320 of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) cooperated in workshop preparations and also contributed financially. The Colombian Association of Medical Schools (ASCOFAME) was responsible for local arrangements and contributed support services. A private corporation, American Medical International, Inc. (AMI) also contributed financially. Dr. Herbert T. Dalmat of APHA served as project director and Dr. Abel Dueñas Padron, Director of ASCOFAME, served as chairman of the workshop, assisted by Dra. Lucia Cock de Leiva. The author of this report designed and coordinated the workshop program.

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