Capabilities and challenges in monitoring the availability of and access to health services in Argentina

Abstract

Monitoring the utilization, quality and performance of health services through indicators is a growing necessity of decision makers. Given the importance of indicators related to availability of, quality of and access to health services by the population, the objective of this article is to research the capacity of information sources produced officially in Argentina since 2000 to generate such indicators, and to identify the extent that such sources comply with the requirements of frequency, disaggregation and publication. The research results show that the information officially available in the country does not allow for the calculation of all indicators, or allows for their construction at only some moments in time, evidencing the need to incorporate new sources or adapt existing ones.

Keywords

• Fuentes de Datos
• Servicios de Salud
• Salud Pública
• Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud
• Argentina