This work of documentary nature sought to identify the reasons for the incorporation of health in the development project for the Latin American countries prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the early 1990s, and the role assigned to the health sector in the built proposition in conjunction with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), entitled Salud, equidad y transformación productiva en América Latina y el Caribe. It was used as source documents prepared by ECLAC and in combination with PAHO. Among the results, we highlight the view of health as a factor of economic and social development, besides the notion of integrated approach as the main argument for the incorporation of health in the new framework of regional development, and the centrality of the categories of equity and productivity in these referred proposals.
ECLAC; PAHO; Development and Health; Equity