Health Services In Mexico Research Articles

Mental Health Services in Mexico

Mental Health Services in Mexico

Politics, Economics, and Health Services in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico

Underdeveloped nations around the world are actively promoting programs which are said to be improving the health status of their disadvantaged populations. Recently created government health services in Mexico are being provided of charge for millions of rural inhabitants. However, the beneficiaries must help build and maintain their local clinic, without pay. Moreover, the federal government may require (but has not yet) all covered household heads to donate ten days' labor for their clinic each year, which would substantially increase their costs for these free health services. Fieldwork among Oaxaca's highland Chinantec during 1980-1982 shows that local political considerations counterbalance villagers' dissatisfaction with the health services, and would likely compel the villagers to work the ten days rather than risk losing their clinic. This paper's political economic analysis of Mexico's recent rural health program includes broad structural considerations as well as village-level factors....

Health Services in Mexico

& E > Uj text in which these institutions operate, four basic aspects can be considered for identifying the features of a health system in a specific society and for establishing the way in which the last influences the first. They are: the structure of the health services, their performance, their coverage, and the degree to which the health needs of the population are met (1,2,3). This paper attempts to present an overview of the Mexican health care system through analysis of these four aspects in the country as a whole as well as in each of the main health service agencies. Nevertheless, reference not only to the satisfaction of health needs but also to the fulfillment of macroeconomic, macrosocial, and political needs is made. A panorama of the present situation and distribution of the manpower, material, and financial resources is presented. Finally, some alternatives for the reorganization of the Mexican health care system are discussed.