Argentina: Health care access for women and children Provincial Public Health Insurance Development Project Description Development Challenge Purpose: To improve access to health care services The health sector in Argentina is highly fragmented with among 10 million uninsured people expanding plan several public and private providers and sources of financing. benefits to children, adolescents and women aged 20-64 who lack health insurance. In addition to horizontal fragmentation, Argentina’s public health sector structure faces the challenge of establishing Expected Results (include): Expand coverage to 70% of the Argentine population that currently lacks efficient institutional arrangements to provide quality services medical insurance and who find it very difficult to to the poor and uninsured, with limited data records of health access health care services (up from baseline of 7% services provided. who has access in 2010). IBRD Financing: $400 million Project Description The Sumar program builds on earlier Bank-supported healthcare projects under the Nacer Plan and seeks to increase health care coverage among all children and women aged 20-64 who lack health insurance. It will also guarantee the financial sustainability of provincial health care programs; improve the results-based financing mechanism in order to achieve quality and equity goals; and strengthen the population’s right to access health care services. The new project includes the provision of basic maternal and children’s care, sexual health and reproductive health care services, as well as preventive and highly complex services, including surgery for congenital heart defects. World Bank © World © Bank For more information: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P106735/provincial-public-health-insurance-development-project?lang=en http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2013/08/14/salud-para-todos-los-argentinos 72