Technical Note on Health System Financing in Colombia
The National Association of Colombian Businessmen (ANDI) and the Colombian Association of Integral Medicine Companies (ACEMI) presented a technical note to contribute to the debate on the financing of the healthcare system and its sustainability.The health system in...
Colombia: Generate 6.8% of Gross Domestic Product to maintain Health Benefits by 2030
The article presents the results of a study conducted by Banco de la República, according to which resources may be sustainable if the economy increases and efficiency is strengthened in the Health Service Provider Institutions (IPS).According to the Banco de la...
Gestarsalud launches tool for Resource Tracking
According to the executive director of the Association of Health Insurance Management Companies (Gestarsalud), the resources allocated to health care are controlled and their destination is transparent.The initiative called payments with transparency aims to obtain...
Sources and Uses of Health System Financing in Colombia
The health system in Colombia is financed with contributions to the contributory system from workers and employers, and with revenues from fiscal sources that include the General System of Participations, contributions from the National Budget, resources from specific...
Achievements in Equity of the Health System in Colombia
The greatest achievement of the Colombian health system is the improvement in the financial protection of households. Out-of-pocket health care spending declined significantly since most medical procedures and drugs are included in the nation's public health insurance...
Colombia introduces junk food tax
Colombia has implemented a tax on ultra-processed foods, becoming one of the first countries in the Americas to take such a measure to tackle obesity, diabetes, and other lifestyle diseases.The Lancet reports that Colombia is one of the first to tax food high in salt...
LHSS Webinar: Integrating People and Services into National Social Health Protection, Perspectives from Cambodia, Colombia, and Vietnam
The USAID Local Health Systems Sustainability Project Webinar is going to be held tomorrow, 27 June at 9.00 AM EST to discuss integrating vulnerable populations into national social health protection programs with panelists from Cambodia, Colombia & Vietnam.In...
WHO Webinar: Making health insurance responsive to citizens
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research with the WHO Health Financing Unit organised a Webinar on 23 March, 1 PM CET, to share outcomes of a programme of research to understand how initiatives to empower citizens have contributed to enabling them to...
How to think about health system reform in Colombia?
As of September 2022, there were 23,408,478 people registered under the contributory regime and 25,491,507 under the subsidized regime, with a national coverage of around 99%. Only 25-30% of the affiliates are contributors who pay the corresponding social...
With a large participation of experts, the International Congress on Integrated and Integrated Networks and Health Systems in Colombia came to a close
Under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Pan American Health Organization, and with a large participation of health professionals and workers, the international congress "Comprehensive and Integrated Networks and Health Systems" was...
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection proposes a new international cooperation system – September 2013
The MHSP proposes to organize the coordination of international development cooperation in the Colombian health sector around three main themes, one of them being the support to the reform in the area of health financing and the law 210. Therefore, a "Cooperation and...
AFD initiates a joint P4H mission in Colombia – June 2013
The framework law number 1438 setting the major principles of the new health financing reform in Colombia was enacted on 19 January 2011. The bill number 210-2013 currently under discussion in Parliament committees, once approved, will provide further guidance for...
The World Bank circulates its concept note paper about its support to the HF reform in Colombia – June 2013
The development objective of this Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) is to contribute to strengthen the Colombian central Government’s institutional capacity to exercise stewardship over the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) to foster better health outcomes,...