Grupos de atención prioritaria en el Ecuador: una mirada al pasado y presente de las políticas sociales

Abstract

The present work has the objective of defining which sectors of society are recognized in Ecuador as priority attention, as well as analyzing in a comparative manner and differentiating the changes that have arisen in the social policies that have allowed their integral attention. For the development of the research has been taken as a reference the contributions of authors with extensive knowledge in the subject, facilitating the understanding of key terms and capture the essence of the work. Understanding as a social policy the set of measures aimed at generating adequate conditions for the life of the population, through the equitable distribution of resources and social benefits; and as a group of priority attention to those population sectors that are in conditions of risk and disadvantage compared to others, being susceptible to be subject to damages. Finally, it is concluded that the concept of priority attention group has varied since its recognition in the Constitution of the Republic, from being known as vulnerable groups to priority attention group, with this change arise others regarding the formulation of targeted social policies towards your attention.