Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Section I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Reforming Health Care in Latin America: Challenges and Options -- The Social Protection Model in Latin America -- After a Decade of Reforms in Latin America -- Some Issues in Comparative Analysis -- Methodological Options -- Section II. Analysis of Health Care Policies -- Chapter 2. The Context and Process of Health Care Reform in Argentina -- Introduction -- Background Influences -- The Reform Process -- Implementation -- Reform of the Public Subsystem: Decentralization of the Hospital System -- Evaluation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Reorganizing the Health Care System in Argentina -- Introduction -- Structural Features -- Transformations in the Health Service Systems - Organizational Models -- Health Service System Regulation -- Discussion -- Chapter 4. The Context and Process of Health Care Reform In Brazil -- Introduction -- Background Influences -- The Reform Process -- The Reform Implementation -- Evaluation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Reorganizing the Health Care System in Brazil -- Introduction -- Structural Features -- Transformations in the Health Care System -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. The Context and Process of Health Care Reform In Mexico -- Introduction -- Background Influences -- Reform Process -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7. Reorganizing the Health Care System in Mexico -- Introduction -- Structural Features -- Changes in the Health Service System -- Section III. Determinants of Utilization of Health Care Services -- Chapter 8. A Population-based Survey in Three Cities of Latin America -- Introduction -- Determinants of the Use of Health Care Services in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico -- Discussion -- Appendix 1. Operational Definitions of the Variables in the Model -- Appendix 2. Path Diagrams -- Section IV. Conclusions.

Chapter 9. Reshaping Health Care Systems in Latin America: Toward Fairness? -- Major Economic and Social Tendencies -- The Health Reform Process -- Comparative Analysis of the Health Care Reforms -- The Make-up of a Reformed Health Care System -- Lessons from the experience -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Contributing Authors -- Bibliography.