Dificultades y oportunidades para la enfermería: una revisión narrativa sobre evaluación económica en salud

it is a narrativre review about the economic evaluation in health which had as an objective to identify the developed studies about the topic in the last ten years. the expenses and cost analysis descriptors were used at the data bases: lilacs, medline, ibecs and capes. 88 publications were found and 65 were selected, from which the 44'62% belonged to the database lilacs, the 44'62% to medline, 4'6% to ibecs and to capes. the 75'38% were about the partial assessment of expenses and the 24'62% about the economic assessment. the medicine was the sub-area that published (41'54%), considering the two types of methodologies; followed by the nursing, which only published about partial evaluation of expenses (15'38%). the nurse as an administrative tool in the health institution, needs to look for the knowledge about this segment of the economy, recognizying his role as a transformator agent and looking for the balance betewwen quality, quantity and expenses when deciding how to distribute the available financial resources.