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Carmen Gloria Muñoz-Muñoz1

  • 1Instituto de Salud Pública, Universidad Austral de Chile. Valdivia, Chile.. cgmunoz@uach.cl.

Salud Publica De Mexico
|February 20, 2025
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This essay examines Chile's health system organization, tracing its evolution since the 1973 coup. It highlights recent debates on public system strengthening versus resistance from economic powers and a public detached from collective health care.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Policy
  • Socioeconomics

Context:

  • Examines the organization of the Chilean health system, established 50 years ago after the coup d'état.
  • Analyzes the recent debate surrounding the transformation and strengthening of the public health system.
  • Discusses resistance to controlling the health business in the post-dictatorship era by economic powers and segments of the population.

Purpose:

  • To present the main background on the organization of the Chilean health system.
  • To showcase the recent debate on public health system transformation.
  • To explore the resistance to the commercialization of health care.

Summary:

  • The Chilean health system's structure, in place for 50 years post-coup, is analyzed.

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  • Recent discussions focus on bolstering the public sector against economic interests.
  • A segment of the population, disillusioned with public health, overlooks the collective nature of health care and the state's role.

    • Impact:

    • Provides historical context for current Chilean health policy debates.
    • Highlights the tension between public health as a right and health care as a business.
    • Underscores the need to re-evaluate the collective understanding of health and the state's protective role.