This paper aims to analyze the determinants that influenced the probability of access to the contributive health regime in 2006, for Colombian rural migrant population. In order to do this it estimates a Logit model, and ...

Introduction: Dengue viruses transmitted principally by the urban mosquito Aedes aegypti, cause one of the major public health problems confronting tropical cities. Insecticide spraying has been the mainstay of mosquito ...

Does the lack of availability of information represent a bottleneck for research and evaluation in health policy? Objectives This article describes the difficulties encountered in obtaining information about health ...

This paper achieves a national approach to the main factors that infl uence the child health production, as well as the determinants of the demand for health inputs in Colombia. Data was taken form the National Health ...

Introduction. Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease with varying modes of transmission and clinical expression, which affects humans inhabiting urban and rural areas worldwide, In Colombia, little is known regarding ...

Introduction. In Cali, Colombia, catch basins (streetside storm drains) are one of the main larval habitats of Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus. Since 1999, these mosquitoes have been controlled by the Secretaría ...

Based on previous works, treating migration as a development tool, we assess the effect of migration on living standards by modeling the impact of having an emigrant household member on the Living Standards Index. As ...

Objective Ascertaining the "learned" forerunners of Colombian independence's thoughts about health problems in Nueva Granada's population during the last years of colonial Spanish government. Methodology Historical ...