title: [Effective coverage of health interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean: metrics for the assessment of health systems performance].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To measure effective coverage for ll health interventions in Latin America including the children's, women's and adult health, as part of program evaluation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interventions were selected; the definitions and calculation methods were harmonized according to the information available to ensure comparability between countries.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Chile has better indicators of crude and effective coverage followed by Mexico and Colombia.There are significant gaps between regions, counties or states.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The health metric on effective coverage is a sensitive indicator that links three important aspects: Coverage of health interventions, use of health services, and access to such services. Effective coverage is a good tool to evaluate health programs performance, and also provides data of where and to whom the system should address national efforts and resources to achieve the purposes and goals set.
authors.affiliation: Fundación Santa Fé de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carrasquilla
authors.forename: Ramiro
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.forename: Héctor
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gómez-Dantés
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.forename: Héctor
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arreola-Ornelas
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bedregal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017691:Caribbean Region; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014611:Vaccination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016387:Women's Health