Colombian Health System on its Way to Improve Allocation Efficiency-Transition from a Health Sector Reform to the Settlement of an HTA Agency.

Over the past 20 years, Colombia has invested major efforts in ensuring universal health care access to its citizens while facing epidemiological transition and demographic changes. The country, as any other region in the world, is challenged by financial constraints and market pressures for entry of new and frequently costly technologies. After the 1993 health sector reform, Colombian citizens are entitled to health care access via mandatory health insurance through a benefits plan.