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News Chile » Health: Chile’s diversified health system tested by economic, demographic changes

News channel or source: https://www.healio.com/news/ophthalmology/20120225/chile-s-diversified-health-system-tested-by-economic-demographic-changes
Published on: Friday 24 February 2012

Chile shares with many of its Latin American neighbors similar health care problems, but arguably is dealing with those problems better than most countries of its size. There is a scarcity of ...

News Chile » Health: Chile’s Private Health-Care System Is on Verge of Collapse, Testing Boric

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/chile-private-health-care-system-140000562.html
Published on: Friday 10 March 2023

(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: Health care reform in Chile

News channel or source: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/179/12/1289
Published on: Monday 01 December 2008

Chile has maintained a dual health care system under which its citizens can voluntarily opt for coverage by either the public National Health Insurance Fund or any of the country's private health ...

News Chile » Health: Chile joins PAHO-led Alliance to strengthen primary health care systems

News channel or source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chile-joins-paho-led-alliance-095618507.html
Published on: Sunday 25 May 2025

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: Chile Government Says Private Health Insurers Owe $1.4 Billion in Overcharges

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/chile-government-says-private-health-131115469.html
Published on: Thursday 11 May 2023

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Chile’s government confirmed that private health insurance companies will have to pay about $1.4 billion to abide ...

News Chile » Health: Chile’s public health breakthrough: The story behind eliminating Leprosy in America

News channel or source: https://www.thehealthsite.com/diseases-conditions/chiles-public-health-breakthrough-the-story-behind-eliminating-leprosy-in-the-america-1306605/
Published on: Thursday 05 March 2026

World Health Organisation WHO and Pan American Health Organisation PAHO have declared Chile to be the first country in the America and the second in the world to be officially certified as having ...

News Chile » Health: After Chile’s Health Reform: Increase In Coverage And Access, Decline In Hospitalization And Death Rates

News channel or source: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0972?download=true
Published on: Friday 24 April 2026

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: Exclusive: Chile health minister hopes Biden victory will help avoid vaccine 'trade war'

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chile-health-minister-hopes-biden-victory-will-help-avoid-vaccine-trade-war-2020-11-13/
Published on: Friday 13 November 2020

SANTIAGO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Joe Biden's win in the U.S. election is raising hopes in Latin America that a war over medical supplies at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak will not be repeated once ...