TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herring, Andrew
AU  - Muiser,Jorine
AU  - Vargas,Juan Rafael
ED  - Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social
ED  - Universidad Iberoamericana. Ciudad de México
TI  - Understanding ten years of stagnation in Costa Rica's drive for universal coverage
SN  - 1870-2961
U1  - REV WSP No.7 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - México
PB  - CISS, UIA
KW  - Seguridad social
KW  - Publicaciones periódicas
KW  - México
KW  - Sistema de salud
KW  - Financiamiento
KW  - Costa Rica
KW  - Gasto en salud
KW  - CostaRica
N1  - Título en español: Entendiendo diez años de estancamiento en el esfuerzo de Costa Rica para alcanzar la Cobertura Universal; Bibliografía p. 72-74
N2  - This study analyzes achievements and obstacles in the process of moving towards universal coverage of essential health care services in Costa Rica. It describes the country as exemplary in the region, both in terms of population health status as well as health financing indicators. Life expectancy and the level of pre-payment are both comparable to high income countries. However, the process that implied a step-by-step inclusion ofsocio-economic population groups roto a single social health insurance fund scheme, which produced its main achievements in the period 1950 - 1970, stagnated in the early nineties. Except for a qualitative analysis of the design and current performance of Costa Ricas health financing system, this paper presents the results of a cross sectional analysis of the 2006 National Health Survey indicating that not only affluent but also marginalized groups are currently excluded from the scheme despite Costa Rica 's universal coverage health policy
UR  - http://162.222.203.113/Analiticas/ADISS2016-378.pdf
ER  -