Title
Implementation of medical specialists brigades in the areas of Universal Health coverage: The peruvian Ministry of Health experience, 2009-2010
Other title
Experiencia del ministerio de salud en la implementación de las brigadas de médicos especialistas en las zonas de aseguramiento universal en Perú, 2009-2010
Date Issued
01 January 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Barzola-Cordero V.
Llamosas E.
Echegaray C.
Cuzco M.
Ministerio de Salud
Abstract
Peru has a high degree of inequity reflected in the distribution of morbidity and mortality, consistent with the inaccessibility to health care and human resource gap, especially in remote areas of the capital. The Peruvian Ministry of Health, recognizing the right of all people to quality health care, initiated the Universal Health Insurance (AUS), and in this context, increased access to specialized care in pilot AUS areas by brigades of specialist doctors. This article offers an approach to this strategy presents the management and implementation processes, a quantitative analysis with indicators of output / efficiency, and provides a qualitative look from the perspective of the members of the brigades. Its main findings reflect the lack of effective and efficient management, translated in the absence of: production goals, work plans, working partnerships with local stakeholders, monitoring and effective supervision, recurrent shortages of human and technological resources, and high costs.
Start page
352
End page
361
Volume
28
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-80052155302
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
DOI of the container
10.1590/S1726-46342011000200025
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