PHA-Exchange> Globalization and infectious diseases in Latin America

[Sunil Deepak]

Supplement of Brazilian journal Reports in Public Health (Cadernos de
saude publica) focusing on globalisation and infectious diseases in
Latin America has many interesting articles in English. The volume is
available at:
 
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc
<http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_issuetoc&pid=0102-311X200700
13&lng=en&nrm=iso> &pid=0102-311X20070013&lng=en&nrm=iso
 
 
 
As Latin American nation states define their public health agendas, the
notion of public responsibility for health has slowly dissipated, and
inclinations towards neoliberalism have led to an increasing
privatization of health care. When it comes to the privatization of
health, Haiti has many similarities to other parts of Latin America,
from the Guatemalan highlands to the urban slums of Lima. Even in Chile,
where health indicators rank amongst the best in Latin America, there is
a growing equity gap in health outcomes. Although in health care the
application of market forces cannot yield optimal results, health
professionals have to increasingly work within the paradigm of market
forces and defensively prove that their interventions are effective and
inexpensive. Unless the poor are accorded some right to health care,
water, food, and education, their lives will inevitably be short,
desperate and unfree; these are not indicators by which we will want to
be judged. (From Whither equity in health? The state of the poor in
Latin America, Paul Farmer)
 
 
Dr Sunil Deepak
AIFO, Italy
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