User:Epant25/Healthcare in Mexico

Planned work description (including annotated references by section):

1.History: Plan to add build upon the already provided information— specifically, on the paragraph that contains the origins and legislative acts from which the modern Mexican healthcare system arose.

Sources planned on being used here:

a. “Health Care Delivery System: Mexico.” Accessed September 29, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs101.

Provides a history of the current health system in Mexico, is increasingly relevant in the "History" section.

b. Urquieta-Salomón, José E., and Héctor J. Villarreal. “Evolution of Health Coverage in Mexico: Evidence of Progress and Challenges in the Mexican Health System.” Health Policy and Planning 31, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 28–36. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czv015.

Provides an analysis of health insurance enrollment trends in Mexico recently. This information is relevant both here and in the "Accessibility" section.

2. Private healthcare delivery: Plan to add two new subsections here, “Accessibility” and “Quality”. In these sections, I will highlight the private healthcare system in Mexico, the frequency with which this is utilized, private health insurance in Mexico and coverage, and the quality of care and services as compared to the public system.

Sources planned on being used here include:

a. Arrieta, Alejandro, Ariadna García-Prado, and Jorge Guillén. “The Private Health Care Sector and the Provision of Prenatal Care Services in Latin America.” World Development 39, no. 4 (2011): 579–587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.09.006

Provides a comparison of quality and accessibility of private healthcare as compared to its publicly-funded counterpart. Information is applicable to this sections' discussion on quality and accessibility.

b. Carvalho, Regina R. P., Paulo A. C. Fortes, and Volnei Garrafa. “Reflections on public-private participation in healthcare.” Salud publica de Mexico 56, no. 2 (2014): 221–25.

Provides information on the accessibility of both public and private healthcare forms, and the stakes each holds in Mexico's healthcare system. Information presented here is pertinent both this section and the following "public healthcare" one.

c. Horton, Sarah, and Stephanie Cole. “Medical Returns: Seeking Health Care in Mexico.” Social Science & Medicine 72, no. 11 (2011): 1846–1852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.035.

Provides information on the accessibility of Mexican healthcare as opposed to U.S. systems, as it is relevant to specific populations. Information will be used to determine a point of comparison for healthcare systems.

d. Pagán, José A., Sara Ross, Jeffrey Yau, and Daniel Polsky. “Self-Medication and Health Insurance Coverage in Mexico.” Health Policy 75, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 170–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2005.03.007.

Provides information on the effects of low health insurance enrollment in Mexico, the pertinence of this to "Accessibility and "Health Statistics" is evident.

e. Phelps, Manatt, Phillips LLP -, and rew I. Rudman. “Mexico’s Healthcare Opportunities: Growing Demand for Private Sector Alternatives | Lexology.” Accessed September 29, 2019. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=730e8fa2-6e6e-4602-b0ff-4bf820a6b572.

Provides information on the shortcomings of the Mexican public health system. Information here could be utilized to demonstrate the extent to which the public health system enhances public health.

f. PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Top Health Industry Issues in Mexico.” PwC. Accessed September 29, 2019. https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/health-industries/top-health-industry-issues-mexico.html.

Provides information on the shortcomings of the Mexican public health system. Information here could be utilized to demonstrate the extent to which the public health system enhances public health.

3. Public healthcare delivery: Plan to add two new subsections here, “Institutions” and “Accessibility and Quality”. These will include details concerning the quality of care, services, and accessibility of these, especially presenting statistics to supplement the conveying of this notion.

Sources planned on being used here include:

a. Barraza-Lloréns, Mariana, Stefano Bertozzi, Eduardo González-Pier, and Juan Pablo Gutiérrez. “Addressing Inequity In Health And Health Care In Mexico.” Health Affairs 21, no. 3 (May 1, 2002): 47–56. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.21.3.47.

Addresses the disparities between the Mexican healthcare system, and the overall national-level health statistics, that are not representative of the current system, to this author's argument. Could be used to highlight extraneous factors with large influences on national health as a whole.

b. Castro, Roberto. “Health Care Delivery System: Mexico,” 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs101.

Provides an overview of the history of the Mexican healthcare system, as well as a critical detailing of the various government agencies and institutions which make up this.

c. Barber, Sarah L. “Public and Private Prenatal Care Providers in Urban Mexico: How Does Their Quality Compare?” International Journal for Quality in Health Care 18, no. 4 (August 1, 2006): 306–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzl012.

Presents an interesting comparison relating to the quality of both public and private healthcare services. Information here will supplement the disparities among quality of care seen among these two classifications of service.

4. Health Statistics: Plan to add two new subsections here, “Current health issues” and “Health expenditure”. In the first section, I will explicitly provide an overview of the current major health issues facing the Mexican populace currently, and also provide some information on the current measures, both state-sponsored and nongovernmental, being taken to combat these. In the latter section, I will expand upon the brief account of healthcare expenditure already presented in the article, and specifically provide information related to patient expenditure on health services.

Sources planned on being used here include:

a. Arredondo, Armando, and Gabriela Reyes. “Health Disparities from Economic Burden of Diabetes in Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from México.” PLoS ONE 8, no. 7 (2013): e68443. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068443.

Diabetes and its influence, not restricted to the actual health issues derived from here, on the general Mexican economy, is discussed. The extent to which this situation affects the general Mexican population presses its inclusion here.

b. Frenk, Julio, Eduardo González-Pier, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Miguel A Lezana, and Felicia Marie Knaul. “Comprehensive Reform to Improve Health System Performance in Mexico.” The Lancet 368, no. 9546 (October 28, 2006): 1524–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69564-0.

Gives information about health spending and current reform debate taking place in Mexico— which is relevant to the "Health expenditure" section.

5. Accessibility: I plan on renaming this section in order to provide a more complex and accurate image of the state of health services accessibility. I plan on including more information on economic difficulties, as well as coverage information, rural care, and other complexities involved in healthcare accessibility across the country.

Sources planned on being used here include:

a. Arredondo, Armando, and Patricia Nájera. “Equity and Accessibility in Health? Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health Care in Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Mexico.” Cadernos de Saúde Pública 24 (December 2008): 2819–26. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X2008001200010.

Gives further information on insurance enrollment statistics, as well as also denoting the financial accessibility of healthcare in Mexico. Financial accessibility is a primal factor in deciphering the overall accessibility of the health services system, and so this information is especially relevant here.

b. Arredondo, A., and P. Nájera. “Who Pays More for Health Services in Middle-Income Countries: Lessons from Mexico.” Public Health 119, no. 2 (February 1, 2005): 150–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2004.03.008.

Examines disparities in financial accessibility among groups of differing SES. A diversification of the situations presented in this section could be done by incorporating information from here.

c. Reyes, H., P. Tomé, G. Gutiérrez, L. Rodríguez, M. Orozco, and H. Guiscafré. “[Mortality for diarrheic disease in Mexico: problem of accessibility or quality of care?].” Salud publica de Mexico 40, no. 4 (1998): 316–23.

Examines a specific health issue and the effects of accessibility/quality in overall health of a population. Will be used to emphasize the consequences of ill-addressing of the aforementioned factors on population health.

d. Doubova, Svetlana V., Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, David Canning, and Michael R. Reich. “Access to Healthcare and Financial Risk Protection for Older Adults in Mexico: Secondary Data Analysis of a National Survey.” BMJ Open 5, no. 7 (July 1, 2015): e007877. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007877.

Presents information related to the interactions of older individuals with the Mexican health system, and how this leads to different outcomes for this group. A diversification of the situations presented in this section could be done by incorporating information from here.

e. Doubova, Svetlana V., Frederico C. Guanais, Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, David Canning, James Macinko, and Michael R. Reich. “Attributes of Patient-Centered Primary Care Associated with the Public Perception of Good Healthcare Quality in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and El Salvador.” Health Policy and Planning 31, no. 7 (September 1, 2016): 834–43. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czv139.

Presents information about the inclinations of the public towards the health sector. Inclusion of this is essential in attaining a clear picture of the state of healthcare in Mexico.

f. Snyder, V. Nelly Salgado-de, Ma de Jesús Díaz-Pérez, and Tonatiuh González-Vázquez. “A model for integrating mental healthcare resources in the rural population of Mexico.” Salud Pública de México 45, no. 1 (2003): 19–26.

Presents information about the disparities between resource availability and proximity in rural and urban communities within Mexico. A diversification of the situations presented in this section could be done by incorporating information from here.

6. Social determinants: I plan on deleting this section— as I don’t find it incredibly relevant to the main focus of the article.

7. See Also: I plan on the addition of the a “Social determinants of health in Mexico” link, as I think its placement here is much more relevant than the inclusion of section in the actual article.

Proposed links to other articles:

The current article already provides a substantial amount of links to other relevant articles. There are some missing links, however. Some links to important governmental organizations and institutions, mentioned extensively in the article, are not given. Additionally, some links to pages about health disease and information are not given, and these are important since not all viewers may be familiar with medical contexts.

Proposed links from other articles:

Links to the article from several relevant pages are already provided, but I plan on including some in pages like “Poverty in Mexico”, “List of hospitals in Mexico”, and in pages denoting federal institutions, like the “Secretariat of Health (Mexico)”, “Mexican Social Security Institute”, “Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers”, among others.