Honduras

The health system is made up of the public subsector made up of the Ministry of Health, which has a guiding, regulatory and provision of health services to the entire population, and the Honduran Institute of Social Security in charge of collecting, managing fiscal resources and mandatory contributions from workers and employers; and the private subsector. The essential services coverage rate for 2021 is 64.3%^[1].

Public spending on health represented 2.9% of gross domestic product, below the 6% recommended by the Pan American Health Organization for 2019^[2] and 12.1% of total public spending for 2021. The main source of financing was out-of-pocket health spending with 52% of current health spending^[3].