PMID: 16524170Mar 10, 2006Paper

Argentina: no lesson learned

International Journal of Health Services : Planning, Administration, Evaluation
C Iriart, H Waitzkin

Abstract

This article examines the political, ideological, social, and economic processes by which the Argentinean economy was transformed, the structural consequences, and the policies responsible for dismantling the welfare state. The health care system reform during the 1990s was an important component in accomplishing the last objective. Analyses of the policies adopted after the crisis of 2001 reveal that, despite the discourse against international financial institutions, President Nestor Kirchner, elected in 2002, followed the same approach by accepting and applying the second generation of health reforms recommended by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank with additional pressure from the World Trade Organization and several free trade agreements. This "new reform" furthered business opportunities for multinational corporations while further shrinking the state administration's role in supplying health, education, and other social services to people who need them more than ever. Social movements have emerged that are developing alternative projects and showing that, when the base is solidarity, "another world is possible."

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Apr 8, 1999·The New England Journal of Medicine·K StockerC Iriart
Apr 3, 2001·Social Science & Medicine·C IriartH Waitzkin
Jan 26, 2002·International Journal of Health Services : Planning, Administration, Evaluation·P Lloyd-Sherlock, D Novick
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Feb 26, 2011·Globalization and Health·Celia IriartEmerson E Merhy
Aug 2, 2007·International Journal of Health Services : Planning, Administration, Evaluation·Howard WaitzkinCelia Iriart
Jul 13, 2016·Anthropology & Medicine·Maria Esther Epele
Aug 2, 2018·Health Systems and Reform·Adolfo RubinsteinAnalía López

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