Abstract

ORTEGA-BOLANOS, Jesús A.  and  RINCON-LOPEZ, Juliana V.. Health policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, a political problem in Pandemic scenarios. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.1, pp.1-.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 0124-0064.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v24n1.103337.

Reflect on the evident effects in the majority of health systems that we have in Latin America, based on the relationships between different political regimes in their States and their impact on public health policies, immersed and modulated in private health insurance market scenarios, it is an urgent task.

We ask ourselves, ¿is it possible to modify public health policies in democratic or social democratic states of LA? And if it is possible to influence this structural scenario, they would positively affect the health sector. ¿How to create or reformulate health systems considered institutions in charge of operating the provision and health care? Recognizing the effects of the pandemic on the dynamics of our health systems shows us that we must rebuild the structure of social thought in our states to build social policies and public health policies aimed at strengthening the fundamental human right to health in a sustainable way, configuring the participation of society with political influence in making fair decisions that will increase the intensity of public action of governance.

Keywords : Public policy; health policy; pandemics; Latin America (source: MesH, NLM).

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