Water privatization and public health in Latin America La privatización del abastecimiento de agua y la salud pública en América Latina

• Main Authors: John P. Mulreany, Sule Calikoglu, Sonia Ruiz, Jason W. Sapsin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2006
• Subjects: Abastecimiento de agua; privatización; salud pública; política social; América Latina; Water supply; privatization; public health; public policy; Latin America; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Tuvo
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/2111ac2b150d49a784d144c0d1296b3c

OBJECTIVES: This study had two objectives: (1) to determine what the public health and development literature has found regarding the public health outcomes of water privatization in Latin America and (2) to evaluate whether the benefits of water privatization, if any, outweigh the equity and justic...