Universal health care in Latin America spotlighted

Policy innovations, recent economic growth, and a trend towards democracy have led to advances in universal health coverage in Latin America, according to Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk, T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development and lead author of a paper on the topic, published October 16, 2014 in The Lancet. The article was part of The Lancet Latin America Series launched by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in collaboration with The Lancet, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Frenk and Rifat Atun, professor of global health systems at Harvard School of Public Health, were among numerous faculty and researchers from the School who co-authored four of the papers in the series.

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Link to the series: Universal Health Coverage in Latin America

Read the press release: The Lancet: Universal health coverage in Latin America series

Read about the launch of the series at the Pan American Health Organization