Access and Health expenditure for Ethnic/Racial Groups in the Region of the Americas

Overview

The Region of the Americas  exhibits a high degree of inequality  when comparing the indicators of different countries and  analyzing  health information disaggregated by social determinants such as  ethnicity  and  race  within countries. Some 43% of  Latin America’s population lives below the poverty  line. Studies from  several sources coincide in the  view that certain ethnic/racial  groups are over-represented  among the  disadvantaged.

This report is part of a series, The World Health Report 2010 Background Papers, which were written to inform the process of developing the key messages of the World Health Report 2010: Health systems financing: The path to universal coverage.