Abstract

Introduction: In Mexico the right to health protection is recognized in the Constitution and within the framework of the state reforms, in this document the reforms concerning the health policies are found. In Mexico this process began in the eighties from the last century. A strategy for its implementation has been the establishment of the Popular Health Insurance, strategy which has had special features in different country regions. One of these regions is the State of Mexico. Since its inception in 2002, the Popular Insurance propounds to join the task so that by the year 2010 all Mexican population had coverage of healthcare services at 100 per cent. After sixteen years from its beginning, the first documentary revision is made identifying if it has achieved its population coverage goal. Method: Different official documents which present the development of its implementation specifically in the State of Mexico are revised. Results: In México, the Popular Insurance as part of the reform to the policies to its establishment and implementation in the State of Mexico, using the same existing health structure appropriating physical and human resources. In terms of the services it grants, it neither cover all those that the society from the State of Mexico demands, nor does it grant the necessary medicine to its care.

Highlights

  • In Mexico the right to health protection is recognized in the Constitution and within the framework of the state reforms, in this document the reforms concerning the health policies are found

  • To do so, issued documents in the scope were taken into consideration 1) national such as the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, The General Health Law, the Agreements of Coordination between the Secretary of Health and the government of State of Mexico and 2) regional as they were the official pages of Popular Insurance and the Health Institute from the State of Mexico

  • Popular Health Insurance is the name which was given to the testing pilot phase to the Social Protection System in Health

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Introduction

In Mexico the right to health protection is recognized in the Constitution and within the framework of the state reforms, in this document the reforms concerning the health policies are found. A strategy for its implementation has been the establishment of the Popular Health Insurance, strategy which has had special features in different country regions One of these regions is the State of Mexico. In its application, these reforms have taken their particularities (according to the country) and have undertaken in two stages: the former with a sustainable decrease of the role of the State and the latter with an apparent recovery of its role but rearticulated with the market. The implementation of this law should be carried out in all spaces which give medical attention and by all health services providers

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