[The national agreement as a space of consensus for defining the objectives of health care reform and establishing Peruvian health policies].
After several months of arduous deliberations, the National Agreement, a policy coordination forum highest level in Peru, approved a document entitled "The objectives of health care reform." In this article it review the work done and the product reached by consensus, which includes as priorities, among others, strengthening of SIS like public insurance, implementation of a policy of multi-year investment, strengthening the protection of health rights outlined, strengthening the primary health care and improving access to safe and effective medicines. The effect is an agreement that gives significance to a process that has the character of state policy and defines the framework within which they must develop health policies in the following years.
Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Lima, Perú.|Secretaría de Coordinación del Consejo Nacional de Salud, Ministerio de Salud. Lima, Perú.
Edgardo
E
Nepo-Linares
Universidad ESAN. Lima, Perú.|Ministerio de Salud. Lima, Perú.
Aníbal
A
Velásquez
D032921:Consensus; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D010568:Peru