Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement

Abstract Overcoming continuing polarization regarding judicial enforcement of health rights in Latin America requires clarifying divergent normative and political premises, addressing the lack of reliable empirical data, and establishing the conditions for fruitful inter-sectoral, inter-disciplinary...

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Main Authors: Alicia Ely Yamin, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Paola Bergallo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-019-1005-3
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spelling doaj-a588cf2853a544ba94aa0e05b70777b22020-11-25T03:07:30ZengBMCInternational Journal for Equity in Health1475-92762019-07-011811410.1186/s12939-019-1005-3Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcementAlicia Ely Yamin0Andrés Pichon-Riviere1Paola Bergallo2Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, Harvard UniversityInstitute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), University of Buenos AiresUniversidad Torcuato di TellaAbstract Overcoming continuing polarization regarding judicial enforcement of health rights in Latin America requires clarifying divergent normative and political premises, addressing the lack of reliable empirical data, and establishing the conditions for fruitful inter-sectoral, inter-disciplinary dialogue.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-019-1005-3Latin AmericaHealth systemsJudicializationPriority-settingRight to healthDemocratic institutions
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author Alicia Ely Yamin
Andrés Pichon-Riviere
Paola Bergallo
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Andrés Pichon-Riviere
Paola Bergallo
Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
International Journal for Equity in Health
Latin America
Health systems
Judicialization
Priority-setting
Right to health
Democratic institutions
author_facet Alicia Ely Yamin
Andrés Pichon-Riviere
Paola Bergallo
author_sort Alicia Ely Yamin
title Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
title_short Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
title_full Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
title_fullStr Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
title_full_unstemmed Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
title_sort unique challenges for health equity in latin america: situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement
publisher BMC
series International Journal for Equity in Health
issn 1475-9276
publishDate 2019-07-01
description Abstract Overcoming continuing polarization regarding judicial enforcement of health rights in Latin America requires clarifying divergent normative and political premises, addressing the lack of reliable empirical data, and establishing the conditions for fruitful inter-sectoral, inter-disciplinary dialogue.
topic Latin America
Health systems
Judicialization
Priority-setting
Right to health
Democratic institutions
url http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-019-1005-3
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