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TEMPORELLI, Karina. Oferta y demanda en el sector sanitario: un analisis desde la economia de la salud. Estud. Econ. [online]. 2009, vol.26, n.53, pp. 73-93. ISSN 2525-1295.

The analysis of the supply and the demand of sanitary services is the previous step for the correct implementation of sanitary policies that answer to the needs of the objective population. In the context of the sanitary sector, these components do not comport of the same form that in the rest of the economy. The complexity of the sanitary supply, where there are publics, privates and non profits institutions with diferent incentives, do difficult to define a monetary price. On the other hand the problems in the production measurement do difficult the economic evaluation. By the side of the demand the problems of information, the uncertainty, the payments realized by third that the consumers can not evaluate alternatives in rational way, putting several times his consumption decisions in hands of the suppliers. The aim of this work is to make a review to the difficulties in the analyse of demand and offer of sanitary services, showing like the health's economic analyses this problematic.

Palavras-chave : Sanitary market; Supply health; Demand health; Market failures.