Colombia and Costa Rica: approaches to policies on health and results in well-being of the child population

Abstract

The guarantee of the right to health of children is crossed by the conceptions that each State has its philosophy political, economic and social understanding. Regarding this, Latin America has undergone far-reaching reforms to their social protection structures since the end of the 1980s, due to the influence of multilateral funding agencies. This has been a homogenization supported in market, models, child care programs and health systems. However, some countries like Cuba and Costa Rica have subsisted systems in which the State maintains models full or mainly public. Based on the country statistical reports to the Pan-American Health Organization, is intended to establish a comparative results in child health of two countries with nearby, socio-economic structures as Costa Rica and Colombia, but whose health systems differ, since the first is based on the monopoly of the State and the second in market-based models. To this end, describes some social variables, structures of each of the two systems of health and child health programs, to continue with the digitization of coverage results and epidemiological which have obtained in each of the countries. Finally, raises a discussion that transcends the obvious from numerical, results to a holistic view of children, not only supported in health systems but also in the quality of life conditions that can ensure every nation to these people health policies should be.