Una propuesta de innovación en políticas de aseguramiento en salud, basada en hallazgos de investigación: el caso de los trabajadores cesantes en Medellín, Colombia
AUTOR(ES)
Cardona, Álvaro, Nieto, Emmanuel, Restrepo, Román, Sierra, Óscar, Cárdenas, Carlos Enrique, Aguirre, Felipe
FONTE
Cadernos de Saúde Pública
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
In recent decades there has been an important academic debate on how to transfer research-based knowledge to the health policy-making process. Despite an intensive controversy and various approaches to the problem, there is basic consensus concerning both the academic relevance and the usefulness of further evaluation of concrete experiences that allow conclusions and clarification of what are still confusing issues. The current article discusses a joint research experience by professors and local and regional health policy-makers. The research focused on the socioeconomic conditions, duration of the employment/unemployment cycle, and features of health insurance for workers that lost their jobs in the Greater Metropolitan "Valle de Aburrá" Area (Antioquia, Colombia) in 2005, as the basis for a proposal to guarantee the maintenance of health insurance for these workers. The potentialities and difficulties of the interactive process are analyzed. The article is also intended to elucidate how scientific outcomes influence policymaking in health, as well as the difficulties imposed by concrete reality and the political process for implementing the innovative proposal.
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