Public health expenditure (% of GDP), 2002 : 2.2
Health expenditure per capita (PPP US$), 2002 : 226
Physicians (per 100,000 people), 1990-2004 : 117
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Data Source:HDR 2005 - UNDP

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PERU - Basic Healthcare

MSF logo MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières
  § Basic Healthcare Country Sheet (in preparation)
  § Free Trade Agreement will put access to life-saving medicines in Peru and region at risk, MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF International, May 2004 (HTML Document)
   
WHO - World Health Organisation
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Peru, Country Information, WHO, The World Health Report 2005

  § Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas: Peru, Pan American Health Organization, WHO, Sep 2002
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Global Health Atlas, World Health Statistics 2005, WHO

  § World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS), WHO
  § The world health report 2006 - working together for health, WHO, 2006.
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Extract page 11-12 "...countries with fewer than 2.5 health care professionals (counting only doctors, nurses and midwives) per 1000 population failed to achieve an 80% coverage rate for deliveries by skilled birth attendants or for measles immunization...Using a similar “threshold” method and updated information on the size of the health workforce obtained for this report, the JLI analysis has been repeated for skilled birth attendants (see Figure 1.4). A remarkably similar threshold is found at 2.28 health care professionals per 1000 population, ranging from 2.02 to 2.54 allowing for uncertainty. The 57 countries that fall below this threshold and which fail to attain the 80% coverage level are defined as having a critical shortage. Thirty-six of them are in sub-Saharan Africa (Figure 1.5)."
Annex Table 4 Global distribution of health workers in WHO Member States : Physicians 1.17/1000, nurses 0.67/1000 in Peru.

  § Survey report on medicine prices and affordibility in Peru
   
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
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Country tables, Human Development Report 2005

    ð Peru Data Country Sheet
    ð Peru Country Fact Sheet
   
Global Health Council
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Statistics from the Human Development Report 2003 are presented in an interactive world atlas.

    ð Peru Statistics
   
The World Bank Group
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DevData, Health, Nutrition & Population Stats, 2005

   
ECOI - European Country of Information Network
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Ecoi.net collects and structures country resources with a specific focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, professional and volunteer refugee counsels as well as persons deciding on claims for asylum and other forms of international protection.
They provide an interesting search engine that gathers information from different sources with a high reputation, such as the UN, international non-governmental organisations, news services or newspapers.

   
LACHSR - Latin America and Carribean Regional Health Sector Reform Initiative
  § Health Systems Country Profiles, Peru, LACHSR
   
HRC - Health Resource Centre
  § Peru, Health Briefing Paper, Health Resource Centre, Sep 1999
   
Social Security Online
  § Peru, Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2005
   
International Social Security Association
  § ISSA provides a database of social security systems in over 170 countries.
   
Transparency International
  § Global Corruption Report 2006, Special Focus: Corruption and Health
    ð Country Report Peru, Samuel Rotta Castilla and Leonardo Narvarte Olivares
  § Corruption Perceptions Index 2005, Country rank: 65
   
Lists of development organizations in Peru
  § Peru, Directory of Development Organizations, edition 2006

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