Chile News News Chile » Health: Chile’s Private Health-Care System Is on Verge of Collapse, Testing Boric
(Bloomberg) -- Fresh off a bruising defeat in Congress, Chilean President Gabriel Boric is now coming under intense pressure to solve the country's next political crisis, a private health-care system ...
News Chile » Health: Chile joins PAHO-led Alliance to strengthen primary health care systems
The Ministry of Health of Chile has become a member of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)-led joint initiative, the Alliance for Primary Health Care in the Americas, aimed at strengthening ...
News Chile » Health: After Chile’s Health Reform: Increase In Coverage And Access, Decline In Hospitalization And Death Rates
In 2005 the government of Chile passed comprehensive health reform. The law mandated coverage by public and private health insurers for selected medical interventions related to fifty-six priority ...
News Chile » Health: Improving health equity, one smile at a time
Chilean dentist Alberto Inzulza Galdames, MPH ’24, wants to improve access to health care for people in vulnerable communities. May 16, 2024 — When Alberto Inzulza Galdames was growing up in rural ...
News Chile » Health: Chile issues first-ever preventive hantavirus health alert
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 30 (UPI) --Chile's Health Ministry has issued its first-ever preventive health alert for hantavirus across 13 of the country's 16 administrative regions to strengthen the ...
News Chile » Health: Chile Becomes First In The Americas To Eliminate Leprosy, WHO Verifies
In a major global public health milestone, Chile has become the first country in the Americas to be officially verified by the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating leprosy disease. The ...
News Chile » Health: UN urges Chile to align constitution with international human rights health standards
The UN Special Rapporteur for health rights on Wednesday urged Chile to modify its constitution to comply with international human rights standards by ensuring universal health rights, arguing that ...
News Chile » Health: Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to be verified by WHO for the elimination of leprosy
Santiago/Washington, D.C./Geneva, 4 March 2026-The World Health Organization (WHO), together with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), congratulates Chile for becoming the first country in the ...