Global Lessons from Health Policy in Mexico

This month’s journal club will be discussing Mexico’s Popular Health Insurance in reducing health disparities, at 6pm Thursday, November 9th in the Reitz Union Room 288. Here is an excerpt of the article by Julio Frenk:

Mexico is a microcosm of the range of problems that affect countries at all levels of development. Its health system had not kept up with the pressures of the double burden of disease, whereby malnutrition, common infections, and reproductive health problems coexist with non-communicable disease and injury. With half of its population uninsured, Mexico was facing an unacceptable paradox: whereas health is a key factor in the fight against poverty, a large number of families became impoverished by expenditures in health care and drugs. The reform was designed to correct this paradox by introducing a new scheme called Popular Health Insurance (Seguro Popular).

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