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

In: Commercialization of Health Care

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  • Asa Cristina Laurell
  • Eduardo Zepeda
  • Luisa Mussot

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.

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  • Asa Cristina Laurell & Eduardo Zepeda & Luisa Mussot, 2005. "Eliminating Economic Barriers in Health Care: the Mexico City Government’s Experience," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Maureen Mackintosh & Meri Koivusalo (ed.), Commercialization of Health Care, chapter 14, pages 216-233, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-52361-6_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523616_14
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