Spanish Abstract: Análisis sobre la regulación ética y jurídica de los gametos en el ámbito europeo y, en particular, en España. Referencia a las técnicas de reproducción humana asistida, con especial atención a la inseminación artificial y a la llamada donación de semen (crítica a...

Spanish Abstract: Este texto se propone abordar la problemática existente en torno a las fallas en la prestación del servicio de agua potable a la comunidad de Yopal desde 2011, asociada a la ausencia de un acueducto que provea del líquido a dicha población. La deficiencia en la prestación...

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...

This paper evaluates how third level of attention hospitals in Bogotá choose between different contractual arrangements with health maintenance organizations (HMO), using criteria which seek to reduce transaction costs. Williamson’s theoretical framework is used as a basis for an empirical...

Colombia adopted a health care system with regulated competition in the interaction of several markets: insurance, medical services, hospitalization and drugs. In this regulatory scheme, a collegiate body and two central dependencies of the executive branch intervene. Overall, the regulation...