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...

El presente documento muestra los principales aspectos metodológicos a tener en cuenta para incorporar la evaluación económica en una guía de práctica clínica en países en desarrollo. El documento está dirigido a los usuarios de las evaluaciones económicas en salud para ampliar el...

Las primas de reaseguro para enfermedades catastróficas en el sistema de salud colombiano han sido tradicionalmente estimadas a partir de métodos actuariales. Este artículo presenta la equivalencia entre las opciones call europeas y el funcionamiento del reaseguro en Colombia y concluye que...

This paper studies the mechanism for the equity of payments for using the Colombian health system, defined as the possibility of consuming services when the need arises, regardless of the individual’s resources. The incentives produced by the payment system are studied, as well as a particular...

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...

Goodwin's predator-prey model predicts clockwise cycles in the employment–distribution space. Qualitative evidence is provided in favour of nonlinear dynamic behaviour for a sample of 67 countries, some of which have cycles similar to those predicted by the model. Predicted centres lie outside...

The article studies the relation between the 1997 crisis and the diversification of the 5 main business groups in Colombia. The entropy measure of diversification did not fall during the crisis, which agrees with the risk-sharing hypothesis of business groups. Diversification fell after the...

The article studies the diversification behavior of four large diversified Colombian business groups five years before and after the 1991 trade opening, as measured by the entropy index. It is shown that the trade opening did not lead the business groups to reduce their diversification but...

The article searches for quantitative evidence in favor of an extended version of Goodwin´s predator-prey model of endogenous distribution-employment cycles for 16 countries. The model is extended to include several harmonics in both series. The model fits all the observations both within...