Peru's comprehensive health insurance and new challenges for universal coverage (English)

This case study analyzes the progress of Peru's Comprehensive Health Insurance (SIS) and evaluates the challenges that remain to achieving universal health care coverage. Peru is an upper-middle-income country with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of just over US$10,000 (purchasing power parity). The country has grown rapidly in the last decade; the average growth rate was 6.5 percent. However, 28 percent of the population lives in poverty...
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Francke Ballve,Pedro Andres.

Peru's comprehensive health insurance and new challenges for universal coverage (English). Universal Health Coverage (UNICO) studies series ; no. 11 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/371851468086931725

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