La Medicina Social en México. Organismos y servicios (1930-2004).

Abstract

Since the decade of 1939 the mexican governments focussed the health cure of the poor, children and peasants as public health problems. During the decade of 1980 financement, demographic transition, epidemiological transition problems and the prevailing political situation geared to a health services' decentralization. Presently the mexican health system is composed by public organisms, social security services and private health services. This paper examines some of their problems -resources, eficiency, equity, patients' satisfaction and quality- from the social medicine perspective.