TITLE:
The Reforms to the Mexican Health Policies: The Case of the Popular Insurance in the Health System in the State of Mexico
AUTHORS:
Georgina Contreras Landgrave, Oscar Donovan Casas Patiño, Manuel Leonardo Ibarra Espinosa, Esteban Jaime Camacho Ruiz, Carolina Tetelboin Henrion
KEYWORDS:
Popular Insurance, Normativity, Services, Medicine
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.8 No.3,
July
6,
2018
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.