Estimación de la inflación en el área de la salud que se ajuste a la realidad de los consumos de medicamentos, tecnologías y servicios en salud en colombia.

Abstract

In the present work, inflation in the health area of Colombia was estimated, analyzed and compared based on the reports of SISMED Versus the inflation-health measured by DANE; For this, the sales prices, commercial and institutional channels reported and published in the Observatorio de precios de medicamentos for the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were used, in order to show the disparity between the measurement methodologies with respect to the reality of the consumption of medicines, technologies and health services. The results show that there is a difference between both methods, in addition, the information reported in SISMED is not included by DANE for the measurement of inflation-health; In addition to the above, there is currently no information medium that compiles the reports of sales prices of pharmaceutical technology or health services in drugstores, dental centers and aesthetic surgical centers, which are consumed by patients with direct payments from their pocket.