The many documents available on the P4H Network’s digital platform reflect the network’s scope of work. The majority of documents are primary source materials created by country nationals or resources produced by organizations working in social health protection (SHP) and/or health financing (HF).
The collection provides information on SHP and/or HF reforms and universal health coverage processes from around the world as well as topical analysis and research.
The case for investment in tobacco control: lessons from four countries in the Americas
This study in the Pan American Journal of Public Health from 2022 explores the case of investing in tobacco control in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Suriname. Health taxes, for example on tobacco products, are considered opportune for both reducing unhealthy...
IX and X Andean Forum on Health and Economics – Proceedings
These reports summarize the objective of the Andean Health and Economy Forum in general, as well as the previous meetings. In more detail, it describes the ninth and tenth forums. The 119-page document includes both the speeches and the work at the dialogue tables.
Public Health Financing in Latin America
The set of articles that make up this publication from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) aims to investigate the economic aspects of health service provision in six Latin American countries. The book, published in 2044, contains quantitative and qualitative...
Law 100 of 1993 created the comprehensive social security system in Colombia.
In 1993, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia passed Law 100, thus creating the country's comprehensive social security system. It comprises the obligations of the State and society, the institutions and the resources destined to guarantee the coverage of economic...
Report to the Congress of the Republic 2023-2024
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection presents the health sector report for the period from June 2023 to May 2024, highlighting the progress in objectives, plans and projects contained in the Sector and Institutional Strategic Plan, the main achievements and...
Fiscal and macroeconomic effects of different health system risks
Changes in demographic and morbidity patterns, new medical technologies, inefficiencies in the system and the structure of the labor market represent a challenge for the fiscal sustainability of the health system in Colombia since they require an increase in public...
Health System Financing in Colombia: Sources and Uses
The article highlights that the health sector in Colombia has faced various financial and administrative problems that have increased the need for fiscal resources for its financing. The main sources of financing are the contributions to the contributory system made...
Financial situation and prospects for reform of the Colombian health care system
The sustainability of the Colombian health system is a critical element for maintaining the progress achieved in health financial protection and health service coverage.There is pressure to increase health spending due to the adoption of new technologies, the aging...
Sustainable financing of immunization in Colombia
The main source of funding for the National Immunization Program (NIP) in Colombia is general taxes, although there are also limited contributions from the sub-national level for program management. The Ministry of Health and Social Protection manages all NIP...
Debut of healthy taxes
Colombia adopted a section on healthy taxes in the 2022 tax reform. Healthy taxes refer to a progressive and differentiated rate on ultra-processed foods and sugar-sweetened beverages starting in November 2023. It is applied in order to discourage the consumption of...
Health Sector Budget Performance Analysis 2019-2021
Results are presented on the budgetary performance of the health sector in 8 countries. This document can serve as a guide for other countries in the region to improve financial management in the health sector, allowing for a more effective and efficient response to...
Pooling Reforms to Strengthen Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage
This LHSS brief focuses on how pooling arrangements—the way countries combine funding from different sources to spread the financial risk of needing to pay for health services—can be improved to accelerate progress toward UHC.The policy brief synthesizes the existing...
Colombia: Constitutional Ruling 760
In this judgment, the Constitutional Court addresses several cases in which the protection of the right to health is invoked. These cases refer to various situations in which the required access to health services was denied.
Decree 538: Mitigating COVID-19 and guaranteeing the provision of health services in Colombia
Health sector measures are adopted to contain and mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the delivery of health services.
Resolution 2292 Health services and technologies financed with resources from the Capitation Payment Unit in Colombia.
The General Social Security Health System guarantees to all persons residing in Colombia, all health services and technologies for the promotion of health, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation of the disease, with the exception of those...