Universal coverage in mexico is synonymous with social protection of. In this article, we present the main changes that have been implemented in seguro popular during the current administration 2012 2018 and propose a series of considerations to improve its performance in the immediate future and thus contribute to achieving the goal of universal health coverage in mexico. Does mexicos seguro popular afford equal healthcare. We do not use the mhas 2012 subsample biomarker data to study impacts of the seguro popular for two reasons.
Many of mexicos policy innovations are studied and emulated across the world, particularly in the field of prevention. Unemployment or a low income does not impede access to seguro popular. In mexico, the seguro popular sp has been implemented as a. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Access to medicines by seguro popular beneficiaries. Mexico is reaching universal health coverage in 2012. Sp seguro popular sshi subsidised social health insurance. By 2012, sps managed to generate an unprecedented flow of. According to the analysis of a number of scholars, mexico was successful in achieving universal health coverage in 2012 through seguro popular, which reportedly covers more than fifty million. Essentially, it was designed so that mexico could attain universal health coverage. Proteccion social en salud spss o seguro popular en 2003.
A national health insurance programme called seguro popular, introduced in 2003, is providing access to a package of comprehensive health services with financial protection for more than 50 million mexicans previously excluded from insurance. Acharya a, vellakkal s, taylor f, masset e, satija a, burke m and ebrahim s 2012 impact of national health insurance for the poor and the informal sector in low and middleincome countries. The objective of this article is to understand the complexity and dynamics that contributed to the adaptation of the policy in the implementation. Historia del seguro popular en mexico by arturo medina. Seguro popular was part of a major reform to mexicos healthcare system enacted in 2003. To determine the impact of seguro popular sps on catastrophic. The 2003 reform that created seguro popular mandated that it be targeted to indigenous and rural populations without access to the traditional social security institutions. First, our empirical strategy requires pre and postprogram data, and the mhas 2001 baseline does not include biomarkers. Mexicos seguro popular appears to have helped reduce the. To begin with, a federal judge in texas, usa, ruled that the affordable care act aca is unconstitutional. Dec 14, 2018, was a dark day for universal health coverage uhc.
Impact of national health insurance for the poor and the. The objective of this article is to understand the complexity and dynamics that contributed to the adaptation of the policy in the implementation stage, how these. Impact of national health insurance for the poor and the informal sector. Second, the sample size of those with biomarkers in 2012 in our sample who report having a chronic disease is small. Membership in seguro popular in mexico linked to a small. In the context of aiming to achieve universal health coverage in mexico, this study compares access to prescribed medicines atpm between seguro popular sp and nonsp affiliated outpatient health service users.
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