Derecho a la salud del adulto mayor en condición de vulnerabilidad en Colombia

Abstract

Colombia has a functional health system with insurance through different regimes such as contributory, subsidized and excepted whose coverage has reached a not insignificant figure of 99.6% of the population, making it one of the best in Latin America, as well Likewise, it has public policies and national and international standards that regulate it; However, it has been shown that there are different barriers to access to health services that violate constitutional guarantees such as the health and life of the elderly population. However, being recognized as individuals with specific protection, due to their own conditions of aging and also due to some social determinants such as low economic resources, lack of education, among others, which leads them to different degrees of vulnerability; Therefore, the State, through the Constitutional Court, has issued different rulings guaranteeing its constitutional right to health, for which this research takes as its axis secondary sources through documentary review, which allow us to go from the descriptive to the interpretive and argumentative, linking theorists, doctrine and jurisprudence.