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The article analyzes the organizational culture in public health institutions in Chile, establishing the relationship between the organizations' cultures and their level of complexity and coverage using the Denison Organizational Culture Scale. The scale was applied to a sample of 156 workers from four institutions. The results reveal that institutions with low complexity and coverage showed higher cultural levels in all dimensions: involvement, consistency, adaptability and mission; as well as in the perspectives of flexibility/stability and internal/external focus. Alternatively, responses from workers in institutions with high coverage but different complexity did not show significant differences regarding their understanding of the organizational culture. In addition, the findings highlight the relationship between the functional characteristics associated with the complexity of health organizations and their cultural features, evidencing particular differences according to the level of coverage or intensity of demand for the services they provide, as well as perspectives of flexibility and stability according to the Denison model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To compare the average size of families affiliated with Popular Health Insurance (SPS, abbrev. in Spanish) and identify variables that best predict single-person affiliation. Material and Methods. Average sizes of families in the SPS are compared using 2004-2006 enrollment records and other sources. Logistic models are used to identify explana­tory variables for affiliation as a single-person family. Results. SPS families on average are composed of one member less in comparison with other sources. The logistic models indicate that the more recent the affiliation year the more probable is affiliation as a single-person family. Conclusions. The smaller number of family members implies an over-financing by the SPS. It is recommended to change the unit of financing to the individual to help the operational and financial sustainability of the SPS over the mid- to long-term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This paper analyzes Law 1122 of 2007 and compares with present rules and possibilities of obtaining proposed goals. Direction: This Law creates the Comisión Reguladora de Salud (CRES) assigning to the Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Social (CNSSS) activities for advising and consultation turning it no operative. This decision gives full power to the executive branch because the President designs the Comissioners and does not take in account the social and institutional participation. A good point is the creation of the Defender of the Patient although does not consider the Superintendencia Nacional de Salud. Universal coverage and financing: With the goal of reaching the national coverage this Law increases the dues to the contributive system in 0.5% and the percentage of the General System of Contributions that different institutions must give to the affiliation to the Regimen Subsidiado, decreasing in proportion the amount giving by the national government. It is said that the national coverage will not be reached because none of different systems, neither population segment of 19 to 24 years old unemployed, students and singles, approximately 2 million people and the population no affiliated to the regimen contributivo, level III of Sisben. It is very positive the decrease to one year the period to be allowed to change EPS, and the decrease of the lack period to 26 months for surgical and high cost diseases. Medical services: The compulsory engagement of EPS from regimen subsidiado of 60% from UPC with ESE, discourage the search for quality as a competence goal. It is criticized that Ministerio de Protección Social has to regulate many sections furthermore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]