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The growing economies of Latin America and the Caribbean need innovation in how healthcare is paid for and delivered. This entails strengthening institutions, embracing new ways to incentivize improvements in efficiency and quality, looking at how to incorporate the private sector and adjusting to dwindling donor support. Leveraging decades of experience across the region, Aceso Global’s work touches on all aspects of these issues in both lower- and upper-middle income countries.
Aceso Global CEO Maureen Lewis and André Medici, World Bank, co-authored a recent article, “Health Policy and Finance Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Economic Perspective,” published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. The article outlines trends and challenges in health financing across the region, and provides an overview of the health economics literature and research to date. It then offers directions for reform that move the conversation beyond issues of funding and equity to new ideas around efficiency, quality, and payment and delivery models.
This article builds on a recent Aceso Global Policy Working Paper.
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