Abstract
After the military coup in 1973, probably the most dogmatic application ever of free-market economic policies was implemented in Chile. The military junta has credited the drop in infant mortality since then to the free-market model. This article explores whether lower infant mortality rates are due to improvements in the socioeconomic conditions created by the free-market, or whether they are due to state-sponsored health care services. It concludes that the socioeconomic conditions since 1973 have generally deteriorated, while government supplemental feeding programs and maternal and child health care services have increased. It appears that the free-market has not been the primary determinant of the decline in infant mortality. Rather, state intervention appears to have been more important. Other morbidity statistics, however, indicate a decline in the population's health status since 1973.
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