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Despite progress in reducing poverty rates, the Latin American region is one of the most inequitable places on the planet.
Public health is one of the biggest concerns in this region; unfortunately, today, it cannot be ensured that investment in public health is the priority and driving force of development in Latin America.
According to Rubén Torres, rector of the Isalud University and former manager of Health Services Systems of the Pan American Health Organization, "many times there is a kind of gap between what political leaders express and then how the budgets they translate are translated." are assigned.”
The challenges are huge for the Latin Chile Mobile Number List American region, since we live in the most inequitable continent on the planet, despite progress in reducing poverty rates.
Rubén Torres, rector of the Isalud University and former manager of Health Services Systems of the Pan American Health Organization
Social investment below the average of OECD countries
Information published by the newspaper El Economista indicates that Torres has analyzed the situation in the region from public social spending, that is, what the governments of the region spend.
In Latin America and the Caribbean it is 29.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), however, OECD countries invest around 43.5%.
With these data, the inequality that exists can be highlighted. The countries that spend the most are Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay, with more than 35% of their GDP, while countries such as the Dominican Republic or Guatemala invest less than 20%.
Furthermore, according to the same newspaper, it says that social spending is divided into 45% for pensions, 31% for education, 13% for non-contributory social security (health plans, subsidies) and 10.2% for public health.
The figures are worth taking into account considering that the population will continue to age and that, unlike European countries, where they were first rich and then old, here we will reach this status with very different conditions of poverty, Torres said.
“ The increase in retirement spending will be an issue of true relevance for the region in the coming years. Without reforms, public spending on aging in the region (retirements, health and education) is expected to rise from 16 to 27.8% of GDP between 2015 and 2065.”
LATAM faces great health challenges
Just because you have more money doesn't mean you have more health. For example, in the United States, 17% of its GDP is spent on health, but in its measures of maternal mortality and life expectancy, it is at the bottom of the most developed countries.
When doing the analysis, the specialist said that the region once again presents great differences. A country like Mexico, classified as a LATAM benchmark, in 2014 was below the average (3.7% GDP), compared to countries like Cuba that exceeded 10% of GDP when talking about fiscal spending.
According to him, our country is considered one of those that spends the most: the money that Mexicans put into health from their pockets is equivalent to 40% of the disease according to data from the World Health Organization, this against 18% for countries of the OECD.
It is a strong inequitable expenditure because it affects the poor much more than the rich, and it becomes a key indicator.
Of the 8.6 million deaths per year in low- and middle-income countries caused by treatable conditions, 3.6 million occur due to lack of access.
Chile, Brazil and Colombia are entering into these models of action, where quality of life and acceptability is fundamental: the patient is put at the center, their opinion is taken into account and not only that of the doctor or financier, the family members and even the pharmaceutical industry.
Despite progress in reducing poverty rates, the Latin American region is one of the most inequitable places on the planet.
Public health is one of the biggest concerns in this region; unfortunately, today, it cannot be ensured that investment in public health is the priority and driving force of development in Latin America.
According to Rubén Torres, rector of the Isalud University and former manager of Health Services Systems of the Pan American Health Organization, "many times there is a kind of gap between what political leaders express and then how the budgets they translate are translated." are assigned.”
The challenges are huge for the Latin Chile Mobile Number List American region, since we live in the most inequitable continent on the planet, despite progress in reducing poverty rates.
Rubén Torres, rector of the Isalud University and former manager of Health Services Systems of the Pan American Health Organization
Social investment below the average of OECD countries
Information published by the newspaper El Economista indicates that Torres has analyzed the situation in the region from public social spending, that is, what the governments of the region spend.
In Latin America and the Caribbean it is 29.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), however, OECD countries invest around 43.5%.
With these data, the inequality that exists can be highlighted. The countries that spend the most are Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay, with more than 35% of their GDP, while countries such as the Dominican Republic or Guatemala invest less than 20%.
Furthermore, according to the same newspaper, it says that social spending is divided into 45% for pensions, 31% for education, 13% for non-contributory social security (health plans, subsidies) and 10.2% for public health.
The figures are worth taking into account considering that the population will continue to age and that, unlike European countries, where they were first rich and then old, here we will reach this status with very different conditions of poverty, Torres said.
“ The increase in retirement spending will be an issue of true relevance for the region in the coming years. Without reforms, public spending on aging in the region (retirements, health and education) is expected to rise from 16 to 27.8% of GDP between 2015 and 2065.”
LATAM faces great health challenges
Just because you have more money doesn't mean you have more health. For example, in the United States, 17% of its GDP is spent on health, but in its measures of maternal mortality and life expectancy, it is at the bottom of the most developed countries.
When doing the analysis, the specialist said that the region once again presents great differences. A country like Mexico, classified as a LATAM benchmark, in 2014 was below the average (3.7% GDP), compared to countries like Cuba that exceeded 10% of GDP when talking about fiscal spending.
According to him, our country is considered one of those that spends the most: the money that Mexicans put into health from their pockets is equivalent to 40% of the disease according to data from the World Health Organization, this against 18% for countries of the OECD.
It is a strong inequitable expenditure because it affects the poor much more than the rich, and it becomes a key indicator.
Of the 8.6 million deaths per year in low- and middle-income countries caused by treatable conditions, 3.6 million occur due to lack of access.
Chile, Brazil and Colombia are entering into these models of action, where quality of life and acceptability is fundamental: the patient is put at the center, their opinion is taken into account and not only that of the doctor or financier, the family members and even the pharmaceutical industry.