Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

This second edition of Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared jointly by OECD and the World Bank, presents a set of key indicators of health status, determinants of health, healthcare resources and utilisation, healthcare expenditure and financing, quality of care, health work...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The World Bank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2023
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Under age 5 mortality
  • In-hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction and stroke
  • Demographic trends
  • Road safety
  • Avoidable hospital admissions
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Financing of healthcare from government and compulsory health insurance schemes
  • Family planning
  • Adolescent health
  • Mortality from cancer
  • Health expenditure per capita and in relation to GDP
  • Overweight and obese adults
  • Pregnancy and birth
  • Foreword
  • Nurses
  • Mortality from injuries
  • Life expectancy at birth
  • Medical technologies
  • Excess mortality
  • Infant mortality
  • Mental healthcare workers
  • Tobacco
  • Financing of healthcare from households' out-of-pocket payments, voluntary payment schemes and external resources
  • Child malnutrition
  • Climate change and health: Strengthening health systems to promote better health in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Mental health
  • Reader's guide
  • Cancer survival
  • Infant and child healthcare
  • Infant and young child feeding
  • Long-term and end-of-life care
  • Diabetes
  • Digitalisation of health information
  • Mortality from cardiovascular diseases
  • Environmental and climate risks
  • Hospital care
  • Executive summary
  • Drug use
  • Water and sanitation
  • Tuberculosis
  • Childhood vaccination programmes
  • Financial protection
  • Maternal mortality
  • Mortality from all causes
  • Mosquito borne diseases
  • Allied health professionals
  • Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at age 65
  • Doctors
  • The impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic on Latin American and Caribbean healthcare systems