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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: 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’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: Wednesday 04 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/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0972

Published on: Tuesday 30 November 2010

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: 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: UN urges Chile to align constitution with international human rights health standards

News channel or source: https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/un-urges-chile-to-align-constitution-with-international-human-rights-health-standards/

Published on: Thursday 05 December 2024

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 health regulator approves AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chile-health-regulator-approves-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-emergency-use-2021-01-27/

Published on: Wednesday 27 January 2021

SANTIAGO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Chile's health regulator on Wednesday approved the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use among its population by a unanimous vote of its advisory board.

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