HEALTH POLICIES IN LATIN-AMERICA

The third Special Meeting of the Ministries of Health of the Americas in 1972 approved the Ten-Year Health Plan for the Americas. This new approach to health policies emphasized the extension of coverage to previously undeserved populations. This international commitment, reaffirmed in 1977, reflected in the firm decisions of each government to carry out strategies involving the provision of primary health care; community participation; reform and restructuring of health services organizations and administrations; differentiation of levels of care and regionalization: development of physical financial and human resources. © 1979.