Abstract

NEPO-LINARES, Edgardo  and  VELASQUEZ, Aníbal. The national agreement as a space of consensus for defining the objectives of health care reform and establishing peruvian health policies. Rev. perú. med. exp. salud publica [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.3, pp.540-545. ISSN 1726-4634.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2016.333.2331.

After several months of arduous deliberations, the National Agreement, a policy coordination forum highest level in Peru, approved a document entitled "The objectives of health care reform." In this article it review the work done and the product reached by consensus, which includes as priorities, among others, strengthening of SIS like public insurance, implementation of a policy of multi-year investment, strengthening the protection of health rights outlined, strengthening the primary health care and improving access to safe and effective medicines. The effect is an agreement that gives significance to a process that has the character of state policy and defines the framework within which they must develop health policies in the following years.

Keywords : Health policy; National agreement; Health care reform.

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