Latin America, with its culturally and ethnically diverse populations, its burgeoning
economies, high levels of violence, growing political instability, and its striking levels of …

Health equity is a guiding principle for public health action. Its noble purpose is to build
healthier, sustainable societies that are also more just and inclusive. This is reflected in the …

Abstract Introduction Brazil and Colombia have pursued extensive reforms of their health
care systems in the last couple of decades. The purported goals of such reforms were to …

Health promotion and social determinants of health approaches, when integrated, can better
contribute to understanding and addressing health inequities. Yet, they have typically been …

The long-standing inequity and inefficiencies of Latin American health systems have been
well established. They were worsened by the economic crisis of the 1980s and the reforms …

The Mexican health reform can be understood only in the context of neoliberal structural
adjustment, and it reveals some of the basic characteristics of similar reforms in the Latin …

Although chronic non-communicable diseases are traditionally depicted as diseases of
affluence, growing evidence suggests they strike along the fault lines of social inequality …

In an effort to provide an overview of the conceptual debates shaping the mobilisation
around social determinants of health and health inequities and challenge the apparent …

The aim of this article is to discuss how neoliberal policies implemented in the Chilean
health system during the Pinochet regime have a lingering effect on equal access to health …

Background Implementation research is increasingly used to identify common
implementation problems and key barriers and facilitators influencing efficient access to …