Main description:

This is the first book to fully review the Mexican health system, its organization and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms, and health system performance. The book is based on the most recent data and focuses on the three main components that constitute Mexico's health system: 1) employment-based social insurance programs, 2) public assistance services for the uninsured, and 3) a private sector composed of service providers, insurers, and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors.

Contents:

Glossary
Abstract
Executive Summary

1. Introduction

Geography and Socio-Demography
Economic Context
Political Context
Health Status

2. Organization and Governance

Historical Background
Organization
Decentralization and Centralization
Intersectorality
Health Information Systems
Regulation and Planning
Patient Empowerment

3. Financing

Health Expenditure
Sources of Revenue and Financing Flows
Overview of the Statutory Financing System
Out-of-Pocket Health Expenses
Private Health Insurance
Other Sources of Financing
Payment Mechanisms

4. Physical and Human Resources

Physical Resources
Human Resources

5. Provision of Services

Public Health
Patient Pathways
Primary/Ambulatory Care
Specialized Outpatient Care/Hospital Care
Emergency Care
Pharmaceutical Care
Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care
Long-term Care
Care by Informal Caregivers
Palliative Care
Mental Health
Dental Care
Complementary and Alternative Medicine

6. Principal Health Reforms

The System for Social Protection in Health
Financial Impact of SPSS
Equity and Efficiency Impacts of SPSS
Demand-Side Funding by SPSS
Portability and Convergence
Persistence of Segmentation
Future Developments

7. Assessment of the Health System

Health System Governance
Accessibility
Financial Protection
User Experience and Equity of Access to Health Care
Health Care Quality
Health System Outcomes
Health System Efficiency

8. Conclusions

References