Universal Healthcare On The Rise In Latin America

Universal Healthcare On The Rise In Latin America
A doctor classifies a milk container at the human milk bank in Lima, on January 31, 2013. Peru promotes a network of milk banks modelled on Brazil, leader in the sector, with the aim of reducing the mortality rate in premature infants, preventing disease and ensuring normal growing on newborns. AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES (Photo credit should read ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images)
A doctor classifies a milk container at the human milk bank in Lima, on January 31, 2013. Peru promotes a network of milk banks modelled on Brazil, leader in the sector, with the aim of reducing the mortality rate in premature infants, preventing disease and ensuring normal growing on newborns. AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES (Photo credit should read ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images)

People living longer, children celebrating more birthdays and fewer families falling into poverty due to illness, are just a few of the outstanding results from countries increasingly adopting universal healthcare coverage in recent years.

And it would seem that Latin America and the Caribbean is leading the charge. Nine countries have been featured in a new set of 22 case studies analyzing significant gains made in healthcare access over the past decade.

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