INIQUITIES IN HEALTH POLICIES - THE LATIN -AMERICAN CASE

Four points relating to the iniquities of the health services are brou ght out. In the first, the economic crisis the region has been going t hrough during recent decades, is discussed and the contention that the tendency to an overall improvement of the living conditions has not b een deeply affected by this crisis is questioned. In the second the ch aracteristics of the Latin-American process of development, marked by the deenpeing of iniquities is examined. In the third an analysis of t he pattern of social protection in the region is presented and in the last two polar models for the reformation of this pattern are discusse d.