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...

Spanish Abstract: Esta investigación se ocupa de lo que ocurre a personas mayores, con discapacidad o con enfermedades terminales, así como a sus cuidadores, durante los procesos de enfermedad y de cuidado, en particular de pérdida de subjetividad (es decir, pérdida de su capacidad como...

Alzheimer's disease represents a significant burden in terms of time for the carer of the patient not institutionalized. The aim of this article is to estimate the cost of the time of the informal care depending on the type of disability and study the underlying factors of its variability. The...

Spanish Abstract: Los Hospitales Universitarios son escenarios que sirven de prácticas docentes para estudiantes de medicina y a pesar de que gozan de buena reputación por sus actividades académicas y de investigación, existe debate en cuanto a la calidad de atención. Esta Investigación...

This paper aims to provide a general overview of the health care sector reform in Colombia, which introduced the market principles of competition into the sector functioning. Therefor, this article analyzes its antecedents, characteristics and consequences. Relying on the interpretation of the...

This paper present an e valuation of the health system’s re form initiated during the period of the former President Ricardo Lagos (Law 19.996).In this paper we assess the probability that a given patient selects the system AUGE GES, (that mainly consists on a guarantee offered by the State of...

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...

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...

El análisis presentado en este documento muestra que la magnitud de las inequidades en salud y en la utilización de servicios de salud en el Perú es muy grande, aun para un país con el nivel de desarrollo del Perú. En consecuencia, se plantea que dichas inequidades deben ser abordadas de...

In Uruguay, as all over the world, the Caesarean section rate has been systematically increasing, and in 2003 it reached 23 per cent of the deliveries in public hospitals and 42 per cent in private hospitals. Considering deliveries registered in 2003 (23.474) by the Perinatal Information System...