Los sistemas descentrados de recursos humanos en salud: el caso del Perú, 1990-2005

This article concludes that today Peru is an example for an unbalanced policy of human resources in health for having lived a long cycle of decline that began in the 90s. This led to a situation characterized by an unbalance between offer and demand of human resources in health, the non-governability of health training and a trade-off between performance and unstable wages and labor conditions for the health personnel. Five key-points are analyzed: a) the dissociation between health work and health education; b) the increase of the productivity of health services based on a higher performance ...