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The health system in Venezuela: a patient without medication?

Overview of attention for article published in Cadernos de Saúde Pública, March 2018
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Title
The health system in Venezuela: a patient without medication?
Published in
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, March 2018
DOI 10.1590/0102-311x00058517
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Authors

Alejandra Carrillo Roa

Abstract

The situation in Venezuela is marked by a profound socioeconomic crisis that raises questions concerning its effects on the health system. The study's aim was to analyze the trends and current situation of the Venezuelan health system, with special emphasis on financing. Based on the World Health Organization's Framework for Action to Strengthen Health Systems, five of the system's six basic components were studied, along with the results in terms of coverage and the population's health. Healthcare financing in Venezuela proved to be primarily private, with a high and growing share of out-of-pocket expenditures, one of the highest in the world. The health sector is also assigned low fiscal priority, with a reduced public budget, vulnerable to fluctuations in oil prices. Meanwhile, health services provision and effective access have been jeopardized in recent years due to the decreased availability of physicians, particularly in some specialties, gaps in provision and medical equipment in health centers, and shortage of medical inputs, medicines, and vaccines, among other factors, affecting the population's health, worsening of several indicators. The economy's structural characteristics and socioeconomic dynamics have impacted the Venezuelan health system, aggravating longstanding problems like the system's fragmentation, segmentation, and "privatization", triggering the emergence of new difficulties like shortage of medicines and lack of accountability, among others.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 18%
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Lecturer 3 5%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 25 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 30%
Social Sciences 8 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 26 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 March 2023.
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#6,278,831
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Cadernos de Saúde Pública
#264
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#102,504
of 347,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cadernos de Saúde Pública
#7
of 38 outputs
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