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Complejidad innecesaria: tratamiento de tuberculosis y descentralización territorial en Colombia

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  • Sergio I. Prada
  • Andrés F. Aguirre

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La descentralización territorial y la sustitución del Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) por un sistema de competencia regulada redefinieron el funcionamiento del sistema de salud colombiano a finales de la década de los ochenta y comienzos de los noventa. En particular, en el SNS las actividades de control de la tuberculosis estaban a cargo de un programa nacional vertical que centralizaba todas las decisiones de planeación, administración, apoyo técnico, financiación y funcionamiento utilizando la red de hospitales públicos. Bajo el nuevo sistema el programa se municipalizó. Este documento analiza la estrategia de erradicación de la tuberculosis según actores, funciones y procesos usando como base el “Plan Estratégico Colombia Libre de Tuberculosis 2010-2015” y muestra la excesiva complejidad del sistema actual. Problemas persistentes de coordinación y capacidad institucional, sugieren la necesidad de cambiar la estrategia actual para acercarla más a las necesidades de los pacientes. Abstract: By late eighties and early nineties Colombia´s health system was redefined by two reforms: fiscal decentralization and the substitution of a national health system for a managed competition system. In particular, under the national health system the nation´s program to stop tuberculosis was vertically centralized with all planning, managing, technical support, financing and implementation decisions made at the top, and with its provision made at public hospitals. After these reforms the program was municipalized. In this paper we study the current strategy to stop tuberculosis depicting its processes, agents and roles using the “Plan Estratégico Colombia Libre de Tuberculosis 2010-2015” and show its excessive complexity. Persistent problems of coordination and institutional capacity, suggest the need to redesign the current strategy so that it answers to people´s needs.

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  • Sergio I. Prada & Andrés F. Aguirre, 2013. "Complejidad innecesaria: tratamiento de tuberculosis y descentralización territorial en Colombia," Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000438:012038
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    Keywords

    Tuberculosis; Descentralización; Estrategias de erradicación.Keywords: Tuberculosis; Decentralization; Eradication Strategy;
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    JEL classification:

    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism

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