Do Education and Health Conditions Matter in a Large Cash Transfer? Evidence from a Honduran Experiment
Feb 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Benedetti, Fiorella;Ibarrarán, Pablo;McEwan, Patrick J.
The paper analyzes a new Honduran conditional cash transfer experiment (Bono 10,000) in which 150 poor villages (of 300) were treated. The transfers were much larger in size than an earlier…
The Latin American Middle Class: Fragile After All?
Dec 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Castellani, Francesca;Parent, Gwenn;Zenteno, Jannet
This paper joins in the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, providing an analysis of its structure and characteristics. Using several measurements, it finds that 40-60 percent of…
Gender in Maternal and Reproductive Health: Synopsis
Dec 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Maternal, reproductive, and newborn health (MRNH) is a key determinant of the opportunities that women and their children will have in life. MRNH includes a woman's right to safely bear children…
Remittances as a Safety Net in Jamaica
Oct 2014
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Ruprah, Inder J.;Sierra, Ricardo
This policy brief answers three main questions for the Jamaican economy: (a) Do remittances act as a safety net during negative health shocks? (b) Are remittances subject to moral hazard by receivers…
It Can Be Done: An Integrated Approach for Controlling and Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases
Aug 2014
Author(s): Tristao, Ignez;Cali, Jonathan
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region has experienced dramatic gains in health and life expectancy in the past century. Yet hundreds of millions of people in the region are still at risk of…
Behavioral Economics Guidelines with Applications for Health Interventions
May 2014
Author(s): Luoto, Jill;Carman, Katherine Grace
Chronic diseases have risen in prominence in recent years and are now the major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The rise in rates of obesity and aging populations are two primary drivers…
Health Benefit Plans in Latin America: A Regional Comparison
May 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Giedion, Úrsula;Tristao, Ignez;Escobar, Liliana;Bitrán, Ricardo;Cañón, Oscar;Molins, Silvia;Alonso, Lucía;Fernández, Jorge;Panopoulou, Giota;González-Pier, Eduardo;Prieto, A. Lorena;Cid, Camilo;Montañez, Vilma;Sabignoso, Martín;Silva, Humberto;Curcio, Javier;Dinarte, Mauricio;Bolaño Prado, Luis
Guaranteeing the right to health care under equal conditions for all is a goal that every society desires to achieve, particularly in a region as unequal as Latin America and the Caribbean. Universal…
Quality Improvement of Health Care in Belize: Focusing on Results
May 2014
Author(s): Mac Arthur, Ian;Nelson, Jennifer;Woodye, Martha
Belize is participating in the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative (SM2015), a regional public-private partnership administered by the Inter-American
Development Bank (IADB) and implemented by…
Climate Change Impacts on Birth Outcomes in Brazil
Apr 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Pereda, Paula C.;Menezes, Tatiane A. de;Alves, Denisard
This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of…
Using standardized simulated patients to measure ethnic disparities in family planning services in Peru: Study protocol and pre-trial procedures of a crossover randomized trial
Mar 2014
Author(s): Planas, Maria Elena;García, Patricia J.;Bustelo, Monserrat;Cárcamo, Cesar;Ñopo, Hugo R.;Martinez, Sebastian;Merino, María Fernanda;Morrison, Andrew
This study aims to evaluate whether health providers in Peru might be contributing to ethnic health disparities in the provision of family planning services, by comparing providers' adherence to…
Comparative Review of Health System Integration in Selected Countries in Latin America
Jan 2014
Author(s): Bossert, Thomas;Blanchet, Nathan;Sheetz, Suzanne;Pinto, Diana M.;Cali, Jonathan;Perez-Cuevas, Ricardo
This technical note presents a comparative analysis of Latin America's fragmented health systems. It provides a detailed account of health system fragmentation along six dimensions (…
Measuring Population Experiences of Primary Care: Innovations in Primary Care Assessment in OECD and LAC countries
Jan 2014
Author(s): Macinko, James
This study develops a composite measure of primary care experience, using the Commonwealth Fund's 2010 International Health Policy Survey (IHP), applied on eleven high income OECD countries, and…
Overview of Early Childhood Development Services in Latin America and the Caribbean
Jul 2013
Author(s): Araujo, María Caridad;Lopez Boo, Florencia;Puyana, Juan Manuel
This study collects and systematizes detailed, updated and comparable information about the design, management, funding and quality of child development services in Latin America and the Caribbean.…
Measurement of Primary Care: Report on the Johns Hopkins Primary Care Assessment Tool
Mar 2013
Author(s): Shi, Leiyu;Pinto, Diana M.;Guanais, Frederico C.
Renewed interest in the Primary Health Care-PHC agenda is a common element of the majority of recent health system reforms throughout Latin America and the Caribbean-LAC. Strengthening of PHC has…
IDB-9: Assessment of the Social Strategy for Equity and Productivity
Mar 2013
Author(s): Raw, Silvia
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank), as part of its Ninth General Capital Increase (IDB-9), committed to prepare strategic documents for one of its priority areas, social policy for…
Belize and the IDB: Twenty Years of Partnership
Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Between 1992 and 2012, the IDB Group approved 120 operations for Belize for a total of US$ 221 million. This publication provides some examples of the Bank's support to Belize, capturing…
Cost of Traffic Injuries in Latin America
Jun 2012
Author(s): Diez-Roux, Esteban;Bhalla, Kavi
This presentation was given by Esteban Diez-Roux and Kavi Bahlla at the Ibero-American Road Safety Conference (CISEV) which took place in Bogota, Colombia in June, 2012. This presentation describes…
Health Perceptions in Latin America
Dec 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lora, Eduardo
This is the first study that uniformly analyzes health perceptions in all of Latin America and tests in a systematic way their relation to economic conditions at the country, income group and…
Does Contracting-Out Primary Care Services Work?: The Case of Rural Guatemala
Nov 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cristia, Julian P.;Evans, William N.;Beomsoo, Kim
This paper estimates the impact of a large-scale contracting-out program in Guatemala, using two waves of living standard measurement surveys which collected data before and after the expansion of…
Chronic Diseases, Primary Care and Health Systems Performance: Diagnostics, Tools and Interventions
Nov 2011
Author(s): Macinko, James;Dourado, Inês;Guanais, Frederico C.
Growing exposure to risk factors in combination with low levels of access to preventive care are increasing unmet health needs. LAC has been experiencing a "nutrition transition" towards…