IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000439/016251.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

El sistema de salud colombiano en las próximas décadas: cómo avanzar hacia la sostenibilidad y la calidad en la atención

Author

Listed:
  • Catalina Gutiérrez S.
  • Nicolás Gómez

Abstract

Para estimular el debate de ideas en la contienda presidencial de 2018 Fedesarrollo lideró la elaboración de varios documentos con propuestas de política pública en áreas críticas para el desarrollo económico y social del país. En el documento de Catalina Gutiérrez se analiza el tema de la salud, en el cual Colombia ha tenido notables avances en las últimas décadas en aspectos importantes como la cobertura del aseguramiento, el acceso a los servicios, el diseno de mecanismos de racionalización de precios y el desarrollo de nuevos modelos de atención. Como se argumenta en el documento, sin embargo, los retos siguen siendo muy grandes. Colombia tiene la tasa de hospitalización más alta de América Latina pero, alrededor de la tercera parte de las hospitalizaciones se podrían prevenir con una adecuada atención primaria ambulatoria y sólo el 36% de los pacientes cuenta con un médico general que le preste atención de manera regular. Además, persisten inequidades significativas entre la salud de la población en zonas dispersas y la del resto del país, y los pacientes aún enfrentan procesos administrativos dispendiosos para obtener atención. Por otra parte, Colombia es el país con mayor nivel de judicialización de la salud en el mundo, y la definición de prestaciones excepcionales por esta vía puede conllevar una asignación de recursos ineficiente que pone en riesgo la sostenibilidad financiera del sistema. La corrupción en el sector y la actuación indebida de algunos agentes empeoran el problema. Para enfrentar estos retos, la autora propone acciones en cuatro frentes: i) elevar la eficiencia del recaudo de recursos, ii) mejorar el uso de esos recursos, iii) disminuir la judicialización de la salud y iv) avanzar hacia un buen sistema de prevención, de mano con la implementación del Modelo Integral de Atención en Salud (MIAS). El análisis y las recomendaciones de Catalina Gutiérrez se complementan en el presente Cuaderno de Fedesarrollo con los profundos comentarios de David Bardey, que sin lugar a dudas contribuyen a elevar la calidad del debate sobre este importante tema.

Suggested Citation

  • Catalina Gutiérrez S. & Nicolás Gómez, 2018. "El sistema de salud colombiano en las próximas décadas: cómo avanzar hacia la sostenibilidad y la calidad en la atención," Cuadernos de Fedesarrollo 16251, Fedesarrollo.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000439:016251
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11445/3556
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Bardey, David & Buitrago, Giancarlo, 2017. "Supplemental health insurance in the Colombian managed care system: Adverse or advantageous selection?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 317-329.
    2. Castano, Ramon & Zambrano, Andres, 2006. "Biased selection within the social health insurance market in Colombia," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 79(2-3), pages 313-324, December.
    3. Brekke, Kurt R. & Grasdal, Astrid L. & Holms, Tor Helge, 2009. "Regulation and pricing of pharmaceuticals: Reference pricing or price cap regulation?," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(2), pages 170-185, February.
    4. Bardey, David & Cremer, Helmuth & Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie, 2016. "The design of insurance coverage for medical products under imperfect competition," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 28-37.
    5. David Bardey & Giancarlo Buitrago, 2016. "Integración vertical en el sector colombiano de la salud," Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, Universidad de los Andes,Facultad de Economía, CEDE, vol. 77, August.
    6. Alvaro J. Riascos & Mauricio Romero & Natalia Serna, 2017. "Risk Adjustment Revisited using Machine Learning Techniques," Documentos CEDE 15601, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Simón Ramírez Amaya & Adolfo J. Quiroz & Álvaro José Riascos Villegas, 2019. "Regression by clustering using metropolis-hastings," Documentos de Trabajo 18180, Quantil.
    2. Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra & Luis E. Arango & Oscar Iván Ávila-Montealegre & Jhorland Ayala-García & Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía & Jesús Alonso Botero-García & Carolina Crispin-Fory & Manuela Cardona & Daniel, 2023. "Aspectos financieros y fiscales del sistema de salud en Colombia," Revista ESPE - Ensayos sobre Política Económica, Banco de la Republica de Colombia, issue 106, pages 1-92, October.
    3. Chen, Chun & Dong, Weizhen & Shen, Jay J. & Cochran, Christopher & Wang, Ying & Hao, Mo, 2014. "Is the prescribing behavior of Chinese physicians driven by financial incentives?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 40-48.
    4. Álvaro Riascos & Eduardo Alfonso & Mauricio Romero, 2014. "The Performance of Risk Adjustment Models in Colombian Competitive Health Insurance Market," Documentos CEDE 12062, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
    5. Iain M. Cockburn & Jean O. Lanjouw & Mark Schankerman, 2016. "Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(1), pages 136-164, January.
    6. Cremer, Helmuth & Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie, 2022. "Coinsurance vs. co-payments: Reimbursement rules for a monopolistic medical product with competitive health insurers," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    7. Brekke, Kurt R. & Holmas, Tor Helge & Straume, Odd Rune, 2011. "Reference pricing, competition, and pharmaceutical expenditures: Theory and evidence from a natural experiment," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(7), pages 624-638.
    8. Kurt Brekke & Dag Dalen & Tor Holmås, 2014. "Diffusion of pharmaceuticals: cross-country evidence of anti-TNF drugs," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 15(9), pages 937-951, December.
    9. Granlund, David & Yesim Köksal, Miyase, 2011. "EU Enlargement, Parallel Trade and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals - What’s to Blame? Derogation or Perception?," Umeå Economic Studies 831, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
    10. Brekke, Kurt Richard & Holmås, Tor Helge & Straume, Odd Rune, 2013. "Margins and market shares: Pharmacy incentives for generic substitution," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 116-131.
    11. Ayadi, Inès, 2009. "Impact de la réforme de l’assurance maladie en Tunisie sur l’offre et la demande des médicaments," Economics Thesis from University Paris Dauphine, Paris Dauphine University, number 123456789/7671 edited by Joël, Marie-Eve & Boujelbene, Younès.
    12. Brekke, Kurt R. & Holmås, Tor Helge & Straume, Odd Rune, 2015. "Price regulation and parallel imports of pharmaceuticals," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 92-105.
    13. Unsorg Maximiliane, 2022. "Reference pricing systems on the pharmaceutical market," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 23(3), pages 403-421, August.
    14. Brekke, Kurt R. & Canta, Chiara & Straume, Odd Rune, 2016. "Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 312-329.
    15. repec:dau:papers:123456789/5347 is not listed on IDEAS
    16. Ricardo Arcaro & Cássia Rita Pereira da Veiga & Wesley Vieira da Silva & Claudimar Pereira da Veiga, 2021. "Attitude and Purchase Intention to Generic Drugs," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(9), pages 1-16, April.
    17. Andia, Tatiana & Mantilla, César & Morales, Álvaro & Ortiz, Santiago & Rodríguez-Lesmes, Paul, 2022. "Does price-cap regulation work for increasing access to contraceptives? Aggregate- and pharmacy-level evidence from Colombia," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 311(C).
    18. David Granlund & Miyase Koksal-Ayhan, 2015. "Parallel imports and a mandatory substitution reform: a kick or a muff for price competition in pharmaceuticals?," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 16(9), pages 969-983, December.
    19. Yesim Köksal, Miyase, 2011. "Compassion and cost: The dual role of reference pricing," Working Papers in Economics 498, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
    20. Pierre Dubois; & Laura Lasio;, 2012. "The effects of price regulation of pharmaceutical industry margins: A structural estimation for anti-ulcer drugs in France," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 12/18, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
    21. F. Antoñanzas & C. A. Juárez-Castelló & R. Rodríguez-Ibeas, 2017. "Endogenous versus exogenous generic reference pricing for pharmaceuticals," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 413-432, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:col:000439:016251. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Patricia Monroy (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fedesco.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.