Methods This was a retrospective cohort study. Patients with 20 to 76 years affiliated to insurer company and enrolled to the DTC program were considered as the study population. The data source was an administrative ...

To evaluate the economic efficiency of a Center of Excellence (CoE) care model for rheumatic diseases located in Bogotá-Colombia. Biomab CoE is based on an adaptation of Colombian clinical practice guideline for the ...

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of Familial Hyperlipidemia (FH) in a population of the Colombian Caribbean affiliated with Colombian Public Health Insurance Company (PHIC) and project this estimate to the population ...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze theoreti-cally and empirically the link between growth and income inequality in Colombia by regions. Economic heterogeneities and socioeconomic indi-cators are considered ...

De acuerdo con Lant Pritchett (2016)[1], cuando los gobiernos adoptan una política de educación usualmente se basan en una serie de “buenas prácticas” a nivel internacional, de las que hay poca evidencia de que logren el ...

This paper provides the location, scenery and litter evaluation of 35 Colombian Caribbean beaches (9 remote, 9 village, 14 urban and 3 resort). Four litter grades were found. A: excellent (5); B: good (8); C: fair (19) and ...

Objectives To review the evidence of out-of-pocket (OOPE) and catastrophic expenditures (CHE) in health in Colombia. Methods Systematic review of the literature (SLR). Searches were performed in PubMed, Scopus, Scielo ...

Objectives to establish the prevalence and associated factors to suicide attempts (SA) in low-income adolescents from the Caribbean region of Colombia Methods A cross sectional study was conducted. Adolescents between ...

Background: Colombia has one of the highest rates of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and pregnancies - both of which are influenced by lack of condom use -, among adolescent population in Latin America; however, the ...

We aimed to explore the existence and trends of social inequalities related to pneumonia mortality in Colombian adults using education as a proxy of socioeconomic status. We obtained death certificates due to pneumonia and ...