La salud en Colombia

Resumen

The crisis in the Colombian health system has been evident for a few years now, not only as a consequence of the growing need for financial resources to attend to the population, but also in terms of its difficulty in accessing good quality health services, independently of income. Until now, the debate has witnessed extreme positions, marked by individual ideologies and interests, much polarization and few spaces for dialogue and focus to find solutions to an urgent crisis. It was this that, in 2010, led the Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo at Universidad de los Andes to convince the University’s President to allow it to undertake a multidisciplinary research study that would integrate doctors, lawyers, political scientists, economists, engineers, and philosophers among others to help comprehend the problems of the Colombian health system and to elevate the level of debate in terms of its workings. The health system in Colombia: Achievements, Challenges and Recommendations is the result of this study and it has become the University’s new white paper, which independently offers the National Executive, the Congress, judges and the agents that intervene in the provision and funding of the health system, concrete recommendations and alternative public policies to help solve a structural problem with long-term ethical, social, political and economic characteristics.