Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020

Abstract

This book contains 7 chapters that reports top indicators, collected before the onset of COVID-19 crisis, on health and health systems across 33 Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries, focusing on equity, health status, determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health expenditure and financing, and quality of care Highlights include: the Universal Health Coverage as a basis and shows a set of key indicators to compare performance across countries in each of the following dimensions: population health (health status and determinants of health);coverage and services;financial protection;and quality of care, the importance of waste identification and reduction, particularly in the areas of clinical care, operational and governance waste, the variations across countries in life expectancy, infant and childhood mortality and major causes of mortality and morbidity, including both communicable and non-communicable diseases, non-medical determinants of health, the inputs, outputs and outcomes of health care systems, the trends in health spending across LAC countries, and lastly the indicators used in the OECD's Health Care Quality Indicator programme to examine trends in health care quality improvement across LAC countries