Eliminating Economic Barriers in Health Care: the Mexico City Government’s Experience

Asa Cristina Laurell, Eduardo Zepeda and Luisa Mussot

Chapter 14 in Commercialization of Health Care, 2005, pp 216-233 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Assuring universal access to comprehensive health care in highly unequal societies with partially commercialized health systems is difficult. However, the Mexico City government’s social programmes implemented since December 2000, aimed at ensuring adequate access to health care and food support for the elderly, provide one example of what is possible. We describe and evaluate these policies which are based on the principle of health as a social right and on public provision of health care, and represent a sharp break from previous Mexican pro-market, small-scale and tightly targeted programmes.

Keywords: Mexico City; Social Programme; Food Support; Ancillary Service; Economic Barrier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523616_14

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