Sistemas de Salud
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Item Health inequalities in the geographic distribution of dental practitioners in Costa Rica: an ecological study(Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, Early view, 2023) Barboza Solís, Cristina; Barahona Cubillo, Juan; Fantin, Romain ClementResults: Mean national LPA was 6.5 full-time equivalents per 10 000 inhabitants, 3.4% of the Costa Rican population had no access to dentist; 12.9% had very low accessibil- ity, 22.7% had low accessibility, 35.0% had good accessibility, 16.2% had high accessi- bility, and 9.8% had very high accessibility. Overall, 39% of the population has a rather low accessibility. LPA was higher in urban districts compared to rural districts and in wealthiest districts compared to most disadvantaged districts. Within districts, after adjustment for district's characteristics, LPA was higher in urban MGU compared to rural MGU and in wealthiest MGU compared to most disadvantaged MGU. Conclusions: This study found that despite having a high number of dentists, their numbers are small in many areas, increasing inequalities in access to health care. The dentist's free establishment, where they can decide to provide private services within a community, creates zones with very high densities, in particular in the wealthiest urban areas, and others with very low densities, in particular the poorest rural areas. The lack of territorial planning has been one of the reasons that has encouraged an imbalance in the availability of dental human resources. To achieve effective universalItem Mejoramiento barrial y urbano en Costa Rica : reconstrucción social de la salud comunitaria desde la perspectiva de salud ambiental(Población y Salud en Mesoamérica, Volumen 14, número 2 (enero-junio 2017), 2017) Alvarez Vega, ChristiamA partir de una revisión bibliográfica exhaustiva sobre el tema de Mejoramiento Barrial y Urbano (MBU), se presenta a continuación una sinopsis crítica del panorama situacional de este modelo de intervención comunitaria en Costa Rica. Se realizó una recolección de información de fuentes documentales secundarias en bases de datos a nivel internacional sobre los temas de Mejoramiento Barrial y Urbano (MBU) y métodos de intervención participativos para el aprovechamiento de espacios públicos en zonas urbanas. Después de establecer y valorar los criterios de inclusión y exclusión, se seleccionaron seis de las publicaciones científicas recuperadas, relacionadas con el tema de interés, y se elaboraron informes analíticos críticos de cada una de ellas y en conjunto, para lo cual se utilizó una matriz cualitativa de entrada de datos. Los hallazgos sirven de precedente para inferir que la Salud Ambiental constituye el mejor indicador de la habitabilidad de los asentamientos humanos y, considerando que aún no se evalúan los beneficios a la salud de la implementación de procesos de Mejoramiento Barrial y Urbano en Costa Rica, constituye un reto y una oportunidad para la disciplina el involucramiento en el abordaje integral de este proceso en el país para contribuir a la reconstrucción social y participativa de la salud comunitaria.Item Impact of long term policies based on social determinants of health: the Costa Rican experience(World Conference on Social Determinants of Health: Río de Janeiro, Brazil. 19-21 octubre del 2011, 2011) Morice Trejos, Ana; Robles Soto, ArodysThe consolidation of Democracy and the abolition of the army in Costa Rica at the end of the 1950s, instituted in the Political Constitution, led to the decision to prioritize the investment of public resources in the social sector as a strategy to advance towards the development of the country. The creation of a solid legal framework, the absence of a rigid stratification connected to a hierarchy of power that generates different access to resources, the implementation of democratic elections with high participation, and the development of public infrastructure have been essential factors in assuring access to education, access to water and basic sanitation as well as to access to health, and social security. Between 1950 and 1980, Costa Rica increased public social spending from 8.6% to 23.6% of the GDP, demonstrating the political will to invest in social determinants, in order to universalize access to education, safe water for consumption, basic sanitation, and primary health care. During this period the illiteracy rate was reduced from 21% to 10%, the average number of years of study increased and the level of education of the economically active population improved. Access to drinking water increased from 53% to 86% and coverage of the population’s health services and social security increased from 8 to 75%. Poverty, measured by level home income, declined from 50% in 1960 to 25% at the beginning of the 1980s. The decline in infant mortality during the period 1960-1980 showed that the least the educational level of mothers, the greater the increase in the probability of surviving, showing a positive effect of public policies and access to education in most secluded populations. At the national level, between 1970 and 1980 infant mortality was reduced from 68.4 to 18.1 x 1000 live births achieving a rate of 9.2 in 2010. Fertility declined from 4.8 to 1.8 and life expectancy increased from 65.8 to 79.2 years, reaching a total of 81.9 years in women in 2010. At the end of the 1980s in the middle of a global economic crisis, Costa Rica implemented a Health Sector Reform process that led to the adaptation of a model of care and delivery of services under the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, strengthening the leading role of the Ministry of Health as a guarantorfor the well-being of the population. The key strategy has been to advance toward health promotion by addressing its determinants to reduce the social gaps. The case of Costa Rica demonstrates that sustained public investment in the social sector with a long term vision has generated a redistributive effect of resources through interventions targeted to address the social determinants. The increase in the educational status and participation of women in the work force and in the political area has been a determinant associated with the improvement of the health indicators. Monitoring and evaluating, transparency, accountability and management, are key factors that have facilitated greater social development.