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Introduction : Deaf individuals in Colombia possess the distinctive trait of communicating with others through Colombian Sign Language (LSC) and encounter communication challenges when accessing health services due to their affiliation with a linguistic and cultural minority. Objectives : To describe the experiences of Deaf individuals in communicative processes during dental care. Methodology: A qualitative study was conducted involving 32 Deaf individuals, both male and female, of legal age, who participated in individual and group interviews. Throughout these interviews, participants shared instances of their experiences in dental consultations. Data were coded, categorized, and relationship maps were developed for analysis. Results were communicated to participants through educational material in sign language. Results : Participants narrate the challenges faced in autonomously accessing health services, as well as their experience of being uninformed during care. They also highlight opportunities for receiving dignified and quality care, necessitating transformations in services, healthcare professionals, and higher education institutions within the context of Deaf culture. Conclusions : Communicative processes in the interaction between dentists and Deaf individuals present an opportunity to better comprehend the Deaf experience in healthcare, question the normalcy in healthcare provision, and recognize the importance of addressing differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study shows the disputes around the right to health. It begins in 2008, year in which health was declared an autonomous fundamental right by the Constitutional Court. It ends in 2015, the moment in which the Statutory Health Law is enacted. The research was carried out through the documentary analysis of sources from the archives of Congress, the Constitutional Court, the press and academic texts. Likewise, semi-structured interviews with key actors in the conflict and categories of analysis related to the conception of the right to health were conducted and implemented. From this, advances in the jurisprudence of law were evidenced; the dichotomy of a State that guarantees health as a fundamental right and at the same time defender of the market; positions of the actors that transit between the defense of a cost-effective system and groups inclined to defend health as a fundamental right in charge of the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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People deprived of liberty (PDL) are subject to adverse conditions to the health and structural problems in the different prisons and penitentiary institutions (PPI). This make difficult to find a solution. Objective: To analyze the scientific evidence required to understand the health situation among the IP in our country. Method: A systematic review of health research carried out in the Colombian prisons was developed using some databases and grey literature compilations based on the following keywords: "prisoners"/"prisons", "health", "health situation", "life conditions", "health problems". This work addressed topics concerning the infrastructure, the main health problems (both in general and special populations), and the determining factors wherever described. Results: Scientific literature allowing understanding the health situation of PDL. Most of the studies were related to mental health problems and infectious disease (TB and STDs). Official reports showed that the PDL underwent unfavorable conditions that compromise their health. Conclusions: In our country the scant scientific research limits the evidence required to implement public policies appropriate to improve the IP health situation. On the other hand, the official reports have not meant a positive impact on their health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to disclose the response capacity of the Health Information Systems (HIS) in Colombia to support an inspection, surveillance and control model (ISC) driven towards the monitoring of the risks undermining the access, use and quality of the health services. This paper is based on a descriptive cross-sectional study under a risk management approach including a review of the regulations framework dealing with the threats to the effective enjoyment of the right to health (EERH) and the characteristics of the information reported by the actors in the system, which is required to carry out the said monitoring. The data supporting the monitoring to the health care processes and its impact on the population health are not enough to appropriately oversee the risks involved. Advantage should be taken from the changes currently taking place in the health system in order to rethink how the system performance is taken as monitored object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective was to determine the perceptions of different actors of the Colombian health system regarding the problems of the system behind the crisis. A qualitative study was carried out on the basis of semi-structured and in-depth interviews with forty health sector agents in Bogotá, Cali, Ibagué, Espinal, and Calima-Darién. The results showed that corruption, breach of regulations, and conflicts of interests between various actors in the system weaken the legitimacy of the system, shatter the cooperation and cohesion of the actors, and strengthen private interests. Regulatory pollution, a temporary inconsistency of regulations, and incomplete information generate uncertainty, confusion, and disintegration within the system. This, in turn, contributes to the development of a regulatory crisis regarding which it is urgent to recover collective and concerted decision-making spaces to promote dialogue and the overcoming of rentier individualistic interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This is a theoretical research that proposes the convergence of three strands for the study of struggles for health in Colombia starting from the analysis of sociopolitical structure and the actors. This goal involves a question on the existence, if any, of collective action for health, framed by the Reform and in a sociopolitical violence context. The method used was documentary analysis of two kinds of sources: 1) examination of academic works on collective action and social movements, and 2) papers on social struggles in Colombia. The results show that struggles for health are immerse in other struggles, even if the reform promotes the creation of new actors and protest forms and the path to the claim of the right. As a consequence, complementary theoretical approaches that show the structure while showing the actors are needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the health status of children aged 1 to 4 years in Colombia and the presence of disparities, using Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) as tracers. In second place it explains the social determinants of ARI and discusses the connection between social determinants of health, legal regulations on the Right to Health and the degree of fulfillment of this right. Finally, it analyzes the role of social policy in the realization of children's rights and the existing contradiction between regulatory framework and the effective guarantee of their rights, which often generates only from the use of judicial machinery like the Tutela, thereby subverting the constitutional order and invalidating its principles and values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a qualitative study carried out from 2005 to 2007. Ten consumer-based organizations (CBO) in Medellin Colombia were interviewed in order to identify their influence on building of the right to health care during the period of time in which the Colombian health care reform took place. The findings classify the CBOS according to their achievements and activities. Likewise show the denied health care services that the CBO's make visible and bring to light by means of their collective action. Poverty, lack of autonomy, and low levels of internal democracy were found to limit impact of those organization's actions when trying to impact on building of the right to health care [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recognition of the 30th anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the District Secretary of Health of the city of Bogotá conducted the investigation, "Health for All: Learning from the Experiences of Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) Phase I (2004-2007)". One objective of this study was to "identify, interpret and analyze the available evidence on participation and community empowerment experiences in PHC in the capital district from 2004 to 2007". Given that local health administrators have proposed new discourses and programs such as Salud a Su Hogar (SASH), which encourage conditions that foster community empowerment, participation as a right and the democratization of power, the population of Bogotá was the target population in this study. While various categories of analysis have arisen, this report is concerned with those regarding the institutionalization and instrumentalization of community participation as it has occurred in Bogotá and the potential and limitations of current social participation policies with respect to promoting and developing participation as a right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine health as a right in the last decade, based on published books and articles. The methodology is part of the qualitative approach, using techniques of content analysis and discourse analysis. We applied instruments with descriptors such as: objectives, themes, actors and results. Among the key findings are concerns over the worsening of the hospital crisis, the labor problem and its relation to health, barriers to access to services and the deteriorating situation of public health The study shows two perspectives on setting health policy: the free market as the best option to ensure health care or the guarantee of health from the State as a fundamental responsible party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]