{"id":987502017,"date":"2023-02-03T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T07:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/country\/paraguay\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:58:29","slug":"paraguay","status":"publish","type":"country","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/countries\/paraguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TEXT &#8211; BLOCK 1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||1em||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]Public spending on health amounted to 3.3% of GDP and 15.9% of total public spending in 2020. Out-of-pocket spending represented 38.4% of total health spending,<sup><a href=\"#1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> or more than the Latin American and Caribbean average of 29.9%. Catastrophic health expenditure for 2014 was estimated at 7.1%.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TEXT &#8211; BLOCK 2 &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||1em||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mspbs.gov.py\/index.php\">Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare of Paraguay<\/a> serves the uninsured population. The <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ips.gov.py\/sistemas\/ipsportal\/\">Social Security Institute<\/a> provides services to formal sector workers and their families. The private sector includes private insurers and for-profit and nonprofit providers. It is estimated that <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9277338\/#:~:text=3%2C6,as%20questionable%20quality%20of%20services.\">between 7% and 9% of the population<\/a> benefits from private insurance schemes.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TEXT &#8211; BLOCK 9 &#8211; Footnotes&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;13px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;20px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css_main_element=&#8221;a{color:#4c7e96 }&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span id=\"1\">[1]<\/span> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hia.paho.org\/es\/paises-2022\/perfil-paraguay\">Perfil de Pa\u00eds &#8211; Paraguay<\/a>\u201d Salud en las Am\u00e9ricas, 15 Sept. 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public spending on health amounted to 3.3% of GDP and 15.9% of total public spending in 2020. Out-of-pocket spending represented 38.4% of total health spending,[1] or more than the Latin American and Caribbean average of 29.9%. Catastrophic health expenditure for 2014 was estimated at 7.1%.The Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare of Paraguay serves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987717708,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country\/987502017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/country"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country\/987502017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987770215,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country\/987502017\/revisions\/987770215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987717708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987502017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}