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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#993300;
font-weight:bold'>Whither equity in health? The state of the poor in Latin
America</span></font></b><font size=2 color="#993300" face=Arial><span
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bold;font-style:italic'>Los obstáculos de la equidad en salud, o la realidad de
los pobres en Latinoamérica<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
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bold'>Paul Farmer, </span></font></b><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Department of
Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cadernos de </span>Saúde
Pública vol.23 suppl.1 Rio de Janeiro 2007<o:p></o:p></b></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>“……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, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region>
has many similarities to other parts of Latin America, from the Guatemalan
highlands to the urban slums of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lima</st1:City></st1:place>.
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Even
in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Chile</st1:country-region>, where health
indicators rank amongst the best in <st1:place w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place>,
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…..”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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