ANÁLISIS DEL PRESUPUESTO GENERAL DEL ESTADO DESTINADO AL SECTOR DE SALUD PÚBLICA DE ECUADOR Y SU RELACIÓN CON EL PIB EN LOS AÑOS 2008 AL 2017

Abstract

Before Correa‟s government, the health sector presented the consequences of a prolonged deterioration from the instability of the beginning of the 2000s with a progressive reduction of the health‟s national budget, which resulted in discomforts in the attention to the users, lack of investment in infrastructure and in human resources. From the beginning of the government of the citizen‟s revolution, a series of programs and projects was made to increase the level of health of the country‟s population. However, in many parts of the country, it‟s very common to observe the lack of capacity of the sector to take care of the specific needs of the public. Through a descriptive and explicative analysis, this article examines the behavior of the expenses and investments of the country‟s public health sector and its concordance with the guidelines established in the country‟s constitution. The paper concludes that there is no relationship between the amount destined for public health and the GDP, in the way it is stipulated by the constitution, which can be attributed to expenses not considered in the budgeted amount. Finally, a discussion about the sector‟s current inefficiencies is made along with information about the health systems of other countries.