Field Trip: Health Reform and Community Medicine in Chile

Harvard HSPH

Chile has been in the forefront of major new issues related to health systems and inequality. First, most Chilean observers were surprised by the massive social protests in October 2019 that challenged the view that Chile was progressing in reducing poverty and increasing equal access to health care for the poor and vulnerable populations. The protests led to a process to revise the Chilean constitution and a presidential election, which led to the election of Gabriel Boric, a young…