Los límites de una política de salud local

Retrocesos e inercias en la secretaría de salud del Distrito Federal, 2007 - 2009

Abstract

In Mexico, since the middle of the mid-1990s, different expressions of political plurality are recognized. We must emphasize the state and municipal government’s elections, in where different political parties has wind. The Government of the Federal District (GDF), dominated since 1997 by the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), representative of the centre-left’s political position, has intend to promote comprehensive policies that contribute to improving the quality of life, progress in social justice and supporting the reconstruction of the social tissue. The Federal District Health Secretariat (SSDF) has placed in the core of its political speech the right to the protection of health, the needs of strength the public interest, and the needs of Universalists and Free Programmes of services to realize this right. However, tensions between the GDF and the federal Government, exacerbated in 2006 in the context of the presidential election, as well as the change of most important directives in the SSDF had recently blurs the vision of rights and worn away the local health policy, especially its contents of universality, free access and strengthening of the public policy. Briefly, between 2007 and 2009 important setbacks had occurred in the health public policy in the Federal District of Mexico, expressed in the reorientation of care programmes.