[Perception of "Chile Crece Contigo" stakeholders on its implementation in the Commune of Concepción, Chile].

Objective: To explore the perception of stakeholders on the implementation policy of the childhood protection subsystem "Chile Crece Contigo" in the Commune of Concepción, Chile.

Materials And Methods: Qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews and a focus group were used as information gathering techniques.

[Implementation of a policy for early childhood care in the Chilean context: a view from health to "Chile Crece Contigo"].

In the field of childhood care, Chile has a long history of interventions which have pointed to reduce infant mortality, most of them with a strong biomedical approach. These interventions have attempted to respond to the demands of the period when they were established, reflecting the evolution of social and health history of the Chilean State and achieving good results during the past century. In this context the Chile Crece Contigo (Chile grows with you) public policy was created to bet on a biopsychosocial approach to early childhood through a serie of actions aimed at protecting and accompanying children throughout their development, with special emphasis on support to the most vulnerable families.

[Governance of health care networks: assessment of the health care integrating councils in the context of the health sector reform in Chile].

Objective: . This paper aims at assessing the contribution of Chile's Health Care Integrating Councils (CIRA, Spanish acronym) to strengthening governance in health.

Materials And Methods: A literature review on the official documents related to the process of creation and development of CIRA was carried out; an ad hoc questionnaire was applied to all 29 health services of the country; finally, 35 semi-structure in-depth interviews were carried on a sample of six CIRA.

Chile's neoliberal health reform: an assessment and a critique.

In spite of serious under-financing during the Pinochet years, Chile's public health system remains the backbone of health provision, responsible for the impressive public health status.