The many documents available on the P4H Network’s digital platform reflect the network’s scope of work. The majority of documents are primary source materials created by country nationals or resources produced by organizations working in social health protection (SHP) and/or health financing (HF).
The collection provides information on SHP and/or HF reforms and universal health coverage processes from around the world as well as topical analysis and research.
The transformation of the Mexican healthcare system
A discussion is presented on the balances and consequences of the decentralization of the health system initiated in the 1980s. Subsequently, it develops what the transformation process consisted of based on the centralization of health services in Mexico, the...
Free of charge: National Institutes of Health in Mexico
It shows that 68% of respondents received free care. Using a survey conducted in 17 institutes and hospitals that produced 85% of the consultations of all third level hospitals in 2023. It should be noted that the survey is not representative of all tertiary...
Health Sector Program 2020-2024
The Health Sector Program 2020 - 2024 is a program derived from the National Development Plan 2019-2024, which establishes the objectives, strategies and actions with which the different institutions of the Federal Public Administration are governed in order to...
Mexico’s Health System: Achievements and Challenges 2015-2022
It highlights that the health system in Mexico has undergone changes in its organization, governance and faces challenges in the health profile to achieve universal health coverage. It includes a description of the structure of the health system, medicines, technology...
Political Constitution of the United Mexican States
Article 4 establishes that everyone has the right to health protection. The bases and modalities for access to health services are defined by law and the concurrence of the Federation and the federative entities in matters of general health is established, "in...
Social Protection System in Health: Seguro Popular and Seguro Médico Siglo XXI
Seguro Popular came into effect in 2004 as a mechanism for implementing the Social Health Protection System (SPSS). It was a public health insurance scheme through voluntary affiliation, aimed at the population that was not affiliated to social security through an...
General Health Law
This law regulates the right to health protection that every person has according to the mandate established in the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States.The Health Law establishes the bases and modalities for access to health services and the...
Equity in out-of-pocket health spending: Evidence from Mexico’s Health Insurance Program
The long-term effects of the health insurance program called Seguro Popular, now eliminated and replaced by the Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar (INSABI) on the equity of out-of-pocket spending in the Mexican poor population are analyzed. It highlights that the...
Health financing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for universal health care
A research paper published in the December 2023 Issue of the Lancet Global Health on how 15 countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic through their health financing policies. The paper has been co-authored by Aungsumalee Pholpark, Community Facilitator for the Asia...
Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis
The October Edition of Lancet Global Health has published a research article on catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID 19 Pandemic in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Viet Nam.The COVID-19...