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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2004
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- Assessing options for an innovative malaria control program on the basis of experience with the New Colombian Health Social Security System Carlos A. Agudelo C. Augusto Corredor A. María Victoria Valero Salud models Malaria Colombia decentralisation control programme Objectives Designing and proposing alternative models for municipal and Departmental malaria control programmes based on evidence obtained con-cerning the process of malaria on the Colombian Pacific Coast and regarding key problems in the malaria control programme before and following health system reform in 1993. Methods An evaluative study was carried out, comparing the situation before and following the 1993 reform; model design was also compared. Control programme is understood as being the institution, the human group and ad-ministration in charge of control activities. The study was carried out in 2002 and 2003, in the Departments along the Colombian Pacific Coast; the four departmental capitals, 28 malarial and 5 control municipalities were included primary and secondary information was obtained by means of surveys and semi-structured interviews, community meetings and reviewing documenta-tion in the secretariats of health, the Vector-borne disease control pro-gramme-VBDC, the Expanded Immunisation Programme-EIP, Health Pro-moting Entities-HPE, Subsidised Regime Administrators-SRA and Service-Providing Entities-SPE. Results The following results were obtained: 1. Illustrating and analysing malarial tendencies in the country and on the Pacific Coast, and the corre-sponding institutional transformations in the programme... 2004 artículo científico 0124-0064 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=42269701 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=422 Revista de Salud Pública application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revista de Salud Pública (Colombia) Num.97 Vol.6