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Mercantilización de los servicios de salud para el desarrollo: el caso de Colombia

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Date
2008
Author
Echeverri, Oscar
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Abstract
This is a succinct analysis of the circular relationship between health and development and the changes occurring over recent decades regarding health care services production and delivery that have resulted in a new paradigm. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, three major, worldwide shifts occurred that changed health care services in Colombia and in other Latin American countries: the privatization of government entities, the commodification of health care services, and the failure of the Soviet model. Health care system reform in Colombia, considered by some experts to be a model, is an example of health care commodification that, 15 years later, has not achieved the coverage, nor the equity, nor the efficiency, nor the quality, that it should have. More so than the market, the problem has been with the market entities that seek disproportionate profits. A solution for this situation is to appeal to nonprofit organizations for the purchase and sale of health care services.(AU)
 
Desde hace unas dos décadas se impulsaron reformas en los sistemas de salud de América Latina y el Caribe, cuya característica central ha sido la de tratar los servicios de salud como una mercancía bajo diversos esquemas de financiamiento y entrega. Estas reformas constituyen parte del enfoque del desarrollo de la región. El propósito de este ensayo es mostrar que el manejo de los servicios de salud como una mercancía en una economía de mercado no favorece el mejoramiento de la salud y, por tanto, va en contravía de los esfuerzos para incrementar el desarrollo, pues existe una relación circular entre la salud y el desarrollo en la cual la primera condiciona el desarrollo y viceversa. En el caso de Colombia, al cual se hará referencia especial, el cambio en la forma de financiar y entregar los servicios de salud como una mercancía ha conducido a un mayor grado de exclusión e inequidad para la población y a un deterioro marcado de la salud pública.(AU)
 
Translated title
Commodification of health care services for development: the case of Colombia
Series
Rev Panam Salud Publica;24(3),sept. 2008
Subject
Servicios de Salud; Reforma en Atención de la Salud; Equidad en el Acceso; Mercantilización; Colombia; Health Services; Health Care Reform; Equity in Access; Commodification; Colombia; Comércio; Assistência à Saúde; Serviços de Saúde; Serviços de Saúde; Reforma Urbana; Colômbia; Assistência à Saúde; Assistência à Saúde; Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde; Acesso aos Serviços de Saúde; Saúde Pública; Qualidade da Assistência à Saúde; Equidad, Salud y Desarrollo Humano; Equidade, Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano; Equity, Health and Human Development
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http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892008000900008
https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/9930
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Echeverri, Oscar (2008) Mercantilización de los servicios de salud para el desarrollo: el caso de Colombia. Rev Panam Salud Publica;24(3) 210-216,sept. 2008. Retrieved from http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892008000900008
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