Álvaro Franco-Giraldo

TL;DR: A significant correlation was found of the democratic deficit of the countries with the health indicators circa 2000, with values of Pearson's coefficient of −0.01, adding pieces of evidence to the previously reported cross sectional association between democracy and health.

TL;DR: The impact of the ajuste estructural on the salud in America Latina and el Caribe during the period of 1980-2000 was evaluated in this paper, where a model of regresion lineal multifactorial ajustado was presented.

TL;DR: A new world health system, directed by new global public institutions, would aim to make public health a global public right and face a variety of staggering challenges, such as working on public policy management on a global scale, renewing and democratizing the current global governing structure, and conquering the limits and weaknesses witnessed by international health.

TL;DR: The probability of achieving MDG4 seems to be seriously compromised for many countries because of reduced public sector expenditure during the last 25 years of the 20th century, in response to World Bank/International Monetary Fund Washington Consensus policies.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework for public health and human rights that trend by strengthening social rights, as a new area of operation, based on public policies to address the determinants of health, upholding social justice, beyond the health field and the biological and behavioural risk factors to decisions arising from political power, exceeds medical solutions and access to health services.