The aim of this article is to revise the literature about the applied econometric models to the analysis of the demand and utilisation of health care. Due to the difficulty to measure directly the demand of these services, the empirical investigations resort to data of the use of medical...

"Este documento busca aportar un análisis sobre el comportamiento económico de los medicamentos biotecnológicos disponibles en el país y su impacto en el sistema de salud colombiano. El trabajo se divide en cinco secciones. En la primera se describe la importancia de los medicamentos...

We analyze the effect of introducing a minimum mandatory health insurance plan in a segmented market in which high risks are affiliated to the public insurer and low risks to the private ones (market segmentation is endogenously obtained in our model). We assume both types of insurers must...

This document analyzes the access to health services for the population belonging to the contributive and subsidized regimes in the Colombian Caribbean region. Models of discreet selection are constructed - simple logit and Heckman probit - to gain insight about the determinants for the use of...

En personas con diabetes, una infección en el pie frecuentemente conduce a amputación. La radiografía plana es el método tradicionalmente usado en la evaluación de las infeccionas óseas del pie, pero comparada con ella, la resonancia magnética es más sensible y específica. Se realiza...

Se analiza el efecto de la introducción de un plan mínimo obligatorio de prestaciones (PMO) en un mercado de seguros de salud segmentado en que el seguro público y las aseguradoras privadas atienden respectivamente a riesgos altos y bajos (la segmentación es obtenida de manera endógena en...

En este documento se esbozan los principales avances en cuanto a cobertura en salud, demanda de servicios médicos, y percepción del estado de salud en Colombia por medio de la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida de 1997 y 2003. Se encuentra un aumento en la cobertura en salud en la población donde el...

The objective of this study consists in quantifying in money terms the potential reduction in usage of public health care outlets associated to the tenure of double (public plus private) insurance. In order to address the problem, a probabilistic model for visits to physicians is specified and...

This article tries to reconcile economic-industrial policy with health policy when dealing with biomedical innovation and welfare state sustainability. Better health accounts for an increasingly large proportion of welfare improvements. Explanation is given to the welfare losses coming from the...

Chronic renal insufficiency is one of the highest cost pathologies of greater financial impact for the general system of social security health care in Colombia. High-cost case concentration in some health entities made it necessary to distribute resources and patients to other entities in order...