Fiscal space for increasing health priority in public spending in the Americas Region

This document presents a summary of a series of policy briefs on the need to create fiscal space for health in the region of the Americas. Thus, each chapter summarizes one of them. Five themes inspired by the overall analysis of 14 countries selected from Latin America and the Caribbean are discussed. The first presents the analytical framework for discussion of the issue of fiscal space and their sources. The second summons and advocates for the implementation of a social dialogue extended to help facilitate decision-making toward increased public health financing. The third deals with the analysis of economic growth and fiscal priority as resources for the creation of fiscal space, with concrete data from a set of selected countries. The fourth policy brief outlined here discusses the tax structure and the formalization of the economy, as sources for creating fiscal space. Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the document dedicated to external financing as a source of fiscal space in the selected countries.