Centralismo, concesión o privatización del sistema sanitario en Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: The current government established within its government plan the delegation of health administration to the private sector, referring to public-private partnerships (PPPs), in which the public sector would benefit from the "experience and management capacity" of its private partners, promoting business efficiency, whether public or private, without this guaranteeing the elimination of corrupt practices, since it will depend on the ethics of the private professionals in charge of managing the health system (a set of entities and social organizations in charge of the production of health services).In this work, a brief description of the structure and functioning of the health models of countries such as Peru, Chile, Colombia,Germany, China, the United States and Ecuador will be made, in order to establish their coincidences, strengths and weaknesses, to determine if its coverage margin is correlated with efficiency in the quality of the services provided, in addition to the existing relationship between health, economic growth and quality of the health service, necessary when deciding whether or not to concession a health system.