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Gonzalo Leyton

Adjunct Professor

University of Chile

Chile

Biography

Gonzalo Leyton is economist and MSc in economics.He´s adjunct professor of health economics at the School of Public Health - University of Chile. He works at the Superintendence of Health of Chile.He participated as technical counterpart in the last five Health System Reform projects. In 2019 he was called by the Minister of Health to the technical team of the Reform.He is in charge of the calculation process of the Risk Equalization Fund (REF). He was economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economy.He was a speaker on best practices and focal point for health indicators for the Ibero-American Social Security Organization. He was invited by Roche Chile to participate in the Alzheimer's Disease Workshop “patient journey”.Areas of interest: mental health, financing systems, risk compensation mechanisms, price, quantity and expenditure indexes and evaluation of public policies in health.In 2021 he co-authored the book "Proposal for a REF for Chile: Model and Results in the Private Health Care System". My latest publication (2023) is available at Frontiers and is called “COVID-19 pandemic and mental healthcare: Impact on health insurance with guaranteed universal access in Chile”.

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