Abstract
Challenges and opportunities for diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in Latin America.
Highlights
Latin America (LA) is a multicultural region, with an estimate of just over 600 million inhabitants, displaying great heterogeneity among their nations
The national health care systems within the LA area are heterogeneous in their organizational structure and complex in their operational configuration, and in the principles guiding the public and private sector roles in the provision of health care services
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not yet considered a public health priority for the national health care systems, explaining why only 56 % of RA patients had access to full medical health coverage, only 58 % had more than 7 years of education, and 58 % were of a low/low-middle socioeconomic status [3]
Summary
Latin America (LA) is a multicultural region, with an estimate of just over 600 million inhabitants, displaying great heterogeneity among their nations. RA is not yet considered a public health priority for the national health care systems, explaining why only 56 % of RA patients had access to full medical health coverage ( often excluding biologics), only 58 % had more than 7 years of education, and 58 % were of a low/low-middle socioeconomic status [3].
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