Los Sistemas de Salud en Países Latinoamericanos, un Análisis de Argentina y Perú

Abstract

Health systems in some Latin American countries are currently implementing reforms focused on achieving efficiency and effectiveness in the quality of the provision of their medical-care services and achieving equity in the public health system compared to others. Therefore, this bibliographic review allows us to identify the main characteristics and elements that establish health systems in Latin America such as Argentina and Peru; two systems composed of three sectors: public, social security and private with different structures in relation to the Colombian one. This text describes and compares the different sectoral indicators and the actors involved in each of them, general characteristics of the infrastructure of health-providing institutions, the global ranking where their health system allows them to position themselves, and how from Based on its strengths and opportunities for improvement, models can be implemented that promote the growth of the current system in Colombia.