title: [Maternal-child health; the last 30 years].
abstract: The dynamics of the health policies of the last 30 years in Chile have been strongly influenced by the following issues: the achieved consciousness of the population that the access to health care is a human right; the important increase of the coverage of the health sector; the development of the human resources for health; and in the last decade the effect of the international recession that ultimately affected the financial situation of the Minister of Health and therefore leading to a stabilization of main health indexes. Other recent facts were the weakness of the normative central rol; the delegation of the primary health care to the mayor; the financing of local health services according to the number of consultancies (FAPEN), and the development of a system of private services (ISAPRES) for the higher income population, that concentrate a high proportion of the sector's resources.
authors.affiliation: INTA, Universidad de Chile.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mardones-Restat
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001723:Birth Rate; D002648:Child; D002677:Chile; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*
vernacular_title: Salud materno-infantil: últimos treinta años.