Title: Equitable financing, out-of-pocket payments and the role of health care reform in Colombia

Authors: Castano-Yepes, Ramon A.

Year: 2002

Journal: Health policy and planning

Volume: 17(2002)suppl. 1

PAGE: 5--11

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health economics, health policy, colombia

Abstract: Colombia launched a health care reform based on social insurance as a means to reduce health care financing through out-of-pocket payments, and to reduce financial barriers to access. This paper analyzes the evolution of regressivity in out-of-pocket financing from 1984 to 1997.

URL: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/suppl_1/5.pdf

Document type: Portal