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Health Services System: Argentina
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Health Financing in Argentina: An Empirical Study of Health Care Expenditure and Utilization
Eleonora Cavagnero, Guy Carrin, Ke Xu, Ana Mylena Aguilar-Rivera, Working Paper Series: INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH FINANCING No.8 - 2006
During the 1990s, Argentina went through major economic upheaval as well as a far-reaching health care reform. This included restructuring, decentralizing and liberalising its health financing mechanisms based on tax-funding and social health insurance. This paper explores that specific period of institutional changes in the health sector and its impact on health service utilization and catastrophic out-of-pocket payments.
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