Monitoring and evaluating progress towards universal health coverage in Chile

Ximena Aguilera; Carla Castillo-Laborde; Manuel Nájera-De Ferrari; Iris Delgado; Ciro Ibañez

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001676

Monitoring and evaluating progress towards universal health coverage in Chile

PLoS Med. 2014 Sep 22;11(9):e1001676. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001676. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Authors

Ximena Aguilera¹, Carla Castillo-Laborde², Manuel Nájera-De Ferrari¹, Iris Delgado¹, Ciro Ibañez³

Affiliations

¹ Universidad del Desarrollo Chile, Centro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud.
² Ministerio de Desarrollo Social Chile.
³ FLACSO-Chile. Health Inequalities, Work and Access to Social Security of Informal Workers Project.

Abstract

This paper by Ximena Paz Aguilera and colleagues is a country case study for the Universal Health Coverage Collection, organized by WHO. It illustrates progress towards UHC and its monitoring and evaluation in Chile.

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Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Chile
Health Care Reform / standards*
Health Care Reform / trends
Humans
Universal Health Insurance / standards*
Universal Health Insurance / trends

Grants and funding

Sources of funding were WHO and university support (Faculty of Medicine Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile). No funding bodies had any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.