Independent of their sex, social status or income, each affiliated worker contributes 4% of his or her monthly salary. This has facilitated an improvement in access to medical care and diagnostic tests, making it easier to identify diseases considered less prevalent in this environment. This new insight combined with better information systems have provides us with a great opportunity to initiate epidemiological studies in this population.
Todo trabajador colombiano debe estar afiliado a una EPS, lo que facilita la identificación de enfermedades consideradas poco prevalentes en nuestro medio, y sumado a las mejoras de los sistemas de información que las EPS han implementado, nos proporcionan de una oportunidad histórica para iniciar estudios epidemiológicos en nuestra población.