[Durgical](https://durgical.com/en/) › [DurgiPedia](https://durgical.com/en/durgipedia/) › [Epidemiology](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/) › The Colombian health system # The Colombian health system The SGSSS, EPS and IPS, the contributory and subsidised schemes, SIVIGILA, the PAI and the laws behind them. 23 pages - [**ADRES and the capitation payment unit (UPC)** ADRES pools and manages the health system's money](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/adres-and-the-capitation-payment-unit/) - [**Care models: PAIS, MIAS and MAITE** Since 2016 Colombia has changed its care model several times: the PAIS policy with MIAS, then…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/care-models-pais-mias-and-maite/) - [**Colombia's General System of Social Security in Health (SGSSS)** It is Colombia's health insurance system, created by Law 100 of 1993: every resident must be…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/colombia-s-general-system-of-social-security-in-health/) - [**Comprehensive health care pathways (RIAS)** The pathways set what care each person should receive according to their stage of life and their…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/comprehensive-health-care-pathways/) - [**EPS and IPS (insurers and providers)** The EPS is the insurer that enrols people and guarantees services; the IPS is the hospital…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/eps-and-ips/) - [**Health information systems in Colombia: SISPRO, RIPS, RUAF** SISPRO brings the sector's databases together; RIPS record every service delivered and RUAF-ND…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/health-information-systems-in-colombia-sispro-rips-ruaf/) - [**Health Situation Analysis (ASIS)** The ASIS is a territory's health diagnosis: who lives there, what they fall ill and die of, why…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/health-situation-analysis/) - [**Intercultural health and ethnic peoples (SISPI)** The SISPI is Indigenous peoples' own health system: it joins their ancestral knowledge with the…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/intercultural-health-and-ethnic-peoples/) - [**Notifiable events in Colombia** They are the diseases, deaths and situations every provider must report to SIVIGILA, each with…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/notifiable-events-in-colombia/) - [**Patient safety and adverse events** Patient safety aims to cut the harm caused by care itself: recognise failures, report them…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/patient-safety-and-adverse-events/) - [**Pharmacovigilance and technovigilance in Colombia** These systems detect and analyse harm from medicines and medical devices already on the market…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/pharmacovigilance-and-technovigilance-in-colombia/) - [**Primary health care in Colombia** PHC is the strategy that brings the health system close to people: teams in the territory…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/primary-health-care-in-colombia/) - [**SIVIGILA: public health surveillance in Colombia** It is the national system that collects and analyses cases of events of public health interest…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/sivigila-public-health-surveillance-in-colombia/) - [**The Collective Interventions Plan (PIC)** The PIC is the set of free public health actions a municipality or department carries out for…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-collective-interventions-plan/) - [**The contributory scheme** It is the way to enrol for people who can pay: employees, pensioners and self-employed people…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-contributory-scheme/) - [**The health benefits plan** It is the set of services and technologies every enrollee is entitled to](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-health-benefits-plan/) - [**The Mandatory Quality Assurance System (SOGC)** The SOGC sets health care quality rules: minimum requirements to offer services, audits to…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-mandatory-quality-assurance-system/) - [**The occupational risk system** Colombia's system that prevents and covers work accidents and occupational diseases; ARLs run it…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-occupational-risk-system/) - [**The PAI as a public health programme** Colombia's Expanded Programme on Immunisation runs free vaccination: purchasing, cold chain…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-pai-as-a-public-health-programme/) - [**The Statutory Health Law (Law 1751 of 2015)** It is the law that recognises health as a fundamental right in Colombia and sets its elements…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-statutory-health-law/) - [**The subsidised scheme** It is enrolment for poor and vulnerable people unable to pay: the State pays their insurance…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-subsidised-scheme/) - [**The Ten-Year Public Health Plan** It is Colombia's ten-year public health policy: it sets aims, targets and strategies that each…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/the-ten-year-public-health-plan/) - [**Tutela and ways to claim the right to health** If an EPS refuses or delays a service, the user can complain to the EPS, complain to Supersalud…](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/tutela-and-ways-to-claim-the-right-to-health/) ## A to Z - [A](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/a/) - [B](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/b/) - [C](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/c/) - [D](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/d/) - [E](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/e/) - [F](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/f/) - [G](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/g/) - [H](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/h/) - [I](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/i/) - [K](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/k/) - [L](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/l/) - [M](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/m/) - [N](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/n/) - [O](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/o/) - [P](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/p/) - [Q](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/q/) - [R](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/r/) - [S](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/s/) - [T](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/t/) - [U](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/u/) - [V](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/v/) - [W](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/w/) - [Y](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/a-z/y/) [← Epidemiology, biostatistics and public health](https://durgical.com/en/epidemiology/) Educational content on epidemiological and statistical methods; 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