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Marcos Cueto
Researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Publications - 116
Citations - 3958
Marcos Cueto is an academic researcher from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Latin Americans. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 106 publications receiving 3627 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcos Cueto include Pontifical Catholic University of Peru & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis
Lincoln C. Chen,Timothy G Evans,Sudhir Anand,Jo Ivey Boufford,Hilary Brown,Mushtaque Chowdhury,Marcos Cueto,Lola Dare,Gilles Dussault,Gijs Elzinga,Elizabeth Fee,Demissie Habte,Piya Hanvoravongchai,Marian Jacobs,Christoph Kurowski,Sarah Michael,Ariel Pablos-Mendez,Nelson K. Sewankambo,Giorgio Solimano,Barbara Stilwell,Alex de Waal,Suwit Wibulpolprasert +21 more
TL;DR: This analysis of the global workforce proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries.
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The origins of primary health care and selective primary health care.
TL;DR: A historical study of the role played by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the emergence and diffusion of the concept of primary health care during the late 1970s and early 1980s is presented.
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The World Health Organization and the Transition From “International” to “Global” Public Health
TL;DR: It is argued that WHO began to refashion itself as the coordinator, strategic planner, and leader of global health initiatives as a strategy of survival in response to this transformed international political context.
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Overcoming social segregation in health care in Latin America
Daniel Cotlear,Octavio Gómez-Dantés,Felicia Marie Knaul,Rifat Atun,Ivana Cristina de Holanda Cunha Barreto,Oscar Cetrángolo,Marcos Cueto,Pedro Francke,Patricia Frenz,Ramiro Guerrero,Rafael Lozano,Robert Marten,Rocío Sáenz +12 more
TL;DR: The authors in this article outline four phases in the history of Latin American countries that explain the roots of segmentation in health care and describe three paths taken by countries seeking to overcome it: unification of the funds used to finance both social security and Ministry of Health services (one public payer), free choice of provider or insurer; and expansion of services to poor people and the non-salaried population by making explicit the health-care benefits to which all citizens are entitled.
Universal health coverage in Latin America 2 Overcoming social segregation in health care in Latin America
Daniel Cotlear,Octavio Gómez-Dantés,Felicia Marie Knaul,Rifat Atun,Ivana Cristina de Holanda Cunha Barreto,Oscar Cetrángolo,Marcos Cueto,Pedro Francke,Patricia Frenz,Ramiro Guerrero,Rafael Lozano,Robert Marten,Rocío Sáenz +12 more
TL;DR: Four phases in the history of Latin American countries that explain the roots of segmentation in health care are outlined and three paths taken by countries seeking to overcome it are described: unification of the funds used to finance both social security and Ministry of Health services (one public payer); free choice of provider or insurer; and expansion of services to poor people and the non-salaried population by making explicit the health-care benefits to which all citizens are entitled.