Mexico

• Reaching The Poor with Health Services: Providing Subsidized Health Insurance to the Poor in Mexico
  En français: Offrir Des Services De Santé Mexique, Fournir une Assurance Maladie Subventionnée aux Pauvres
  En español:Servicios De Salud, México, Suministro de Seguros de Salud Subsidiados para los Pobres
• Bridging the divide: global lessons from evidence-based health policy in Mexico
  Julio Frenk, 2006, Lancet 2006; 368: 954–61
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  The paper provides an overview of the main features of the Mexican reform designed to correct inequity and reduce catastrophic health expenditure by introducing Popular Health Insurance (Seguro Popular). This innovative initiative is gradually protecting the 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor, who had previously been excluded from formal social insurance. There are encouraging results towards achieving universal access to high-quality services with social protection for all.
  (8 pages, pdf 640KB)
• Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development: an analysis of Mexico’s Oportunidades
  pdf, 171kb
  Lia C H Fernald, Paul J Gertler and Lynnette M Neufeld, 2008, The Lancet Vol 371 March 8, 2008
  A doubling of cash transfers was associated with lower prevalence of stunting, lower body-mass index for age percentile and lower prevalence of being overweight. A doubling of cash transfers was also associated with children doing better on a scale of motor development, three scales of cognitive development, and with receptive language.
  (10 pages, pdf 168KB)
• Tough Choices: Investing in Health for Development
  Sergio Spinaci, Louis Currat, Padma Shetty, Valerie Crowell, Jenni Kehler, 2006
  Synthesis of country experiences over three years of following up on the findings of the 2001 report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH). the main challenges that countries have faced with respect to improving health investment planning; policy implications along which the efforts of national policy-makers and planners, as well as development partners.
  (124 pages, 871KB)