Abstract
Adopting key mechanisms to restructure public policy in developing countries is a crucial political task. The strengthening of infrastructure of health services, care quality, monitoring and population health; all might contribute to assuring the functionality of a national system for health monitoring and care. Over the last decades, the Mexican government has launched wide-ranging political reforms aiming to overcome socioeconomic and environmental problems, namely health, education, finances, energy and pension. The proposed (but yet not implemented) health reform in Mexico during E. Peña Nieto’s administration (2012–2018) pretended an adjustment in Article 4 of the Mexican Constitution to compact medical care and reduce the State’s responsibility to a provision of minimum health packages for the population. Here we use a simple analytical model to describe and interprete the concepts of context, process, actors and content and the outcome of three of the most important resulting components of this intended reform i.e. universality, basic packages, and ‘outsourcing’. In light of the start of the Mexico’s new federal administration, we argue that, if not properly defined by all actors, the implementation of such structural health reform in Mexico would precipitate a model of private/public association exacerbating a crisis of political representation, human rights, justice and governance.
Highlights
Mexico has been considered as one of the countries with highest levels of population inequality in the world [1], but see: [2]
During the six years of his administration, President Peña Nieto and his team operated an erratic approach for health and social security. Their intended health reform project included a non-universal pension (Program Senior Citizen directed for 65 year-old people and older [25]), an absence of childcare facilities [26], and the extension of catalogs of the ‘Prospera’ Health Program component (12)
What should be the major focus for Mexican health policy? In addition, what kind of universality do Mexicans need? First, a true universality requires active participation of all actors
Summary
Mexico has been considered as one of the countries with highest levels of population inequality in the world [1], but see: [2]. Peña Nieto’s federal administration (2012–2018) proposed an adjustment in Article 4 of the Mexican Constitution, intending to compact medical care and reducing the State’s responsibility to a provision of minimum health packages for population.
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