Abstract

DAZA CASTILLO, Luis Antonio. Power in Colombia's Health Policy: Civil Society and the 2013 Healthcare Reform. Pap.polit. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.1, pp.77-103. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javenana.papo22-1.ladc.

This study seeks to identify the power relationships between civil society and the state in the debate occurred in Colombia around the healthcare reform conducted in 2013. Findings are discussed on the basis of concepts and arguments provided by the philosopher Michel Foucault. Results evidence that the configuration of the Colombian healthcare system led in the subsequent years to the emergence of multiple actors within the system, with unequal action powers towrad the healthcare public policy development. Degrees of participation and power are associated to the social nature of each social stratum, as well as to the economic and political interests they represent. The article recommends actions focused on the social construction of a health policy aimed at guaranteeing health rights, which moderates the mercantile and economic scopes usually associated to that policy and that regulate and determine (among ohters) the healthcare system in Colombia.

Keywords : power; power relations; health; social policy; policy cycle.

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