The democratization of health in Mexico: financial innovations for universal coverage

In 2003, the Mexican Congress approved a reform establishing the Sistema de Protección Social en Salud [System of Social Protection in Health], whereby public funding for health is being increased by one percent of the 2003 gross domestic product over seven years to guarantee universal health insura...

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Main Authors: Julio Frenk, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Felicia Marie Knaul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2009-07-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000700016&lng=en&tlng=en