The case of the Chilean health system , 1983 - 20001

1 This work is the product of a collaboration between the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) with support from public and private providers in the Chilean health system participating in foreign trade in health services. The research was led by a team from ECLAC made up of Vivianne Ventura-Días, Director of the Division of Foreign Trade and Financing for Development; Francisco Prieto, a consultant with that Division and Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Relations; Daniel Titelman, Economic Affairs Officer of the Financing Unit of that Division; and Francisco León, Social Affairs Officer of the Social Development Division, who coordinated the team. Cesar Viera and Mónica Bolis of the Development Division made up the PAHO counterpart responsible for analyzing, together with the ECLAC team, the various phases of the work. Macarena Correa, Teresa Hernández, and Marcela Weintraub were hired as consultants by PAHO and later by ECLAC. They and Francisco León were responsible for the interviews and the search for and systematization of data. An earlier version of this paper was submitted to specialists during the month of June and at a discussion workshop with specialists and interested parties in Chile on August 3 of 1999. The current text was written by Francisco León. 2 Social Affairs Officer, Social Development Division, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile. INTRODUCTION