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Central America is usually defined as consisting of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Within Central America is the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from southern Mexico to southeastern Panama.
Social Guarantees had an important impact on Costa Rican social and economic development. [10] [11] Universal healthcare has allowed the country to have one of the highest health rates (it is currently considered an important destination for medical tourism and has the highest levels of lowest of infant mortality in Latin America only below Cuba), [12] [13] compulsory public education up to ...
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At the end of World War II, interest in integrating the Central American governments began.On 14 October 1951 (33 years after the CACJ was dissolved) the governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua signed a treaty creating the Organization of Central American States (Organización de Estados Centroamericanos, or ODECA) to promote regional cooperation and unity.
The federal republic consisted of five states: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. [191] Each state was subdivided into 45 partidos (districts). [192] From 7 February 1835 to 3 May 1839, the Federal District was centered around San Salvador as the national capital. [153]
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Spanish: Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social) is in charge of most of the nation's public health sector.Its role in public health (as the administrator of health institutions) is key in Costa Rica, playing an important part in the state's national health policy making.
Other founding partners include the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (FICR), the Costa Rican National Commission for Risk Reduction and Emergency Assistance (CNE), the Center for Coordinating Natural Disaster Prevention in Central America (CEPREDENAC) and the Regional Office for Emergencies of Médecins sans Frontieres ...
Guido Miranda Gutiérrez (23 July 1925 – 20 February 2019) was a Costa Rican civil servant and medical doctor. Miranda is credited with spearheading the effort to push the Costa Rican Department of Social Insurance (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social) from the capital of San José into smaller municipalities and rural regions.