Título en español: Atención primaria y estrategias de salud en la seguridad social en América Latina 1986.

Bibliografía p. 52

I Origins of compulsory social insurance for the provision of health care. Historical. Principal stages in the development of social insurance in Latin America. Dominant features of social sickness-maternity insurance. II From social insurance to social security: main trends and tendencies in health benefits. III Organization of social security health benefits. Origin of the creation of the institutions' own services. Present situation, potential capacity. Other methods of providing benefits. Financing of social security health services. IV The search for coherente in the principal health systems. The creation of co-ordination and control superstructures in social security. Towards the creation of unified health systems in which social security has been Integrated. V Final considerations.