Opposite pathways in social health care in Mexico

Oliva López-Arellano Médica, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). Doctora en Ciencias en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud. Profesora-investigadora Titular de la Maestría en Medicina Social y del Doctorado en Ciencias en Salud Colectiva. UAM, Xochimilco, México. , José Blanco Gil Médico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Magíster en Salud Pública, Instituto de Desarrollo de la Salud, La Habana, Cuba. Profesor-investigador Titular de la Maestría en Medicina Social. UAM, Xochimilco, México.
Published: 5 December 2008 Open Access
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Abstract


Current political plurality in Mexico is expressed in different models of social policies and in the tension of the exercise of government between domestic and national levels. The objective of this paper was to contrasts the contents together with the main conflictive points of the national health policy (Mexico) against the domestic health policy (Mexico's Federal District). To achieve this goal, development plans, programmatic documents and budgets within the period 1994-2006 were analyzed. As a consequence, similarities and substantial differences were found regarding socio-sanitary diagnoses, agendas, strategies and priority programs.