Model to Determine the Field of Application of Simulation in the Colombian Health System Based on Rules

Authors

Mendez-Giraldo, German

Hernandez-Bernal, Laura

Abstract

The Health System in Colombia has been the source of numerous criticisms generated by the inequality in access to health services that the Colombian population has, the poor provision of health services, corruption, among others, that although, these are widely known because they had been in recent years; the improvements to solve these situations has not been very noticeable. In this context, this research aims to offer a window in the academic field to address some of the challenges of the Colombian Health System through using simulation techniques. These techniques provide robust tools for the improvement and decision-making process, which means that their evaluation is faster and cheaper than carrying out such experiments on the real system. The simulation paradigms used in this research are discrete simulation, continuous simulation and agent-based simulation, techniques that have certain characteristics in their state variables, the interactions between them and their performance measures, which leads to facing the challenge of deciding which is the best technique to use. In this sense, this paper intends to design a prototype system based on rules that, through interaction with the user, allows determining which is the most appropriate simulation technique to address the problem of interest to the user and indicates relevant information such as: which are the main measures of performance, variables, causal relationships and/or behaviors of the same.