Copyright © 2018. Inter-American Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. Lee este artículo en español. By Diana Pinto, Gianluca Cafagna and Laura Giles-Álvarez. Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced important improvements in key health indicators over the last two decades. For … [Read more...] about 10 Take-Aways on How the Region Can Improve Health Spending Efficiency
Health Spending and Financing
How Community Health Workers Are Helping Vulnerable Communities
Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. By Mariana Eberle-Blaylock. Lee este artículo en español. Despite enormous advances in technology and improvements in human welfare at the global level, there are still vulnerable populations today that have little or no … [Read more...] about How Community Health Workers Are Helping Vulnerable Communities
How Perspective Shapes Health Policies
Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. By Ursula Giedion. Lee este artículo en español aquí. As health technologies evolve, the ways in which these technologies are evaluated and applied to the public sphere to ensure effectiveness also change. The Health … [Read more...] about How Perspective Shapes Health Policies
Empowered Patients make Better Health Care
Copyright © 2017. Interamerican Development Bank. If you wish to republish this article, please request authorization at sph-communication@iadb.org. Edited by Blog Gente Saludable Team. A version of this interview was originally published in the July edition of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Para ver esta entrevista en español, haz click aquí.) Not … [Read more...] about Empowered Patients make Better Health Care
Trapped in a Hospital for Too Long? Intermediate Care Provides Escape
Copyright © 2017. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Si deseas republicar el artículo, por favor solicita autorización a sph-communication@iadb.org. By Ian W. Mac Arthur. There is one public general hospital in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where over one in five of all patients remain longer than fifteen days, and 44% of them linger on for more than a month. Most of them … [Read more...] about Trapped in a Hospital for Too Long? Intermediate Care Provides Escape