Mexico: Poverty and Health

I have a habit of saving items. Many of them date back to before the flood: illustrated copies arranged by topic, in volumes, with notes on the pages. I choose Poverty and health. The citizens of the Internet do not know this obsession: it is Environmental controlit takes up space and it takes time to arrange texts. Browse articles I like it and it works for me. The ideas that interest me today come from this volume and from… Unhealthiness Mexico in 2023.

Two statements impossible to reconcile. According to the National Council for Social Development Policy Evaluation (Conefal) The number of Mexicans without access to health care increased between 2018 and 2022. Five years ago, 20.1 million people did not have access to various means Health services; In 2022, the number rises to 50.4 million (current population 126 million). The same source reported that between 2016 and 2022, 5.4 million people left the country poverty: From 52.2 million they submitted in 2016 Economic shortcomings And socialSix years later, the number dropped to 46.8 million. However, the number of people living in extreme poverty increased in the same period from 8.7 to 9.1 million.

When combined with the above data, the reality is stinging. Two stand out Misery, economic and moralThat is, politics. In 2022, 36 out of every 100 people had at least one Social deprivation He did not have enough monthly income to Buy food.

The above data is alarming. Konfal asserts: Poverty has decreased. It states Conval: The absolute lack of protection in the health sector has grown. Mexico, due to inadequate policies and excessive theft by Political mafia Immersed in one of the worst universes: poverty And illness Revealed just under half population To confront, without resources, Illness-related expenses. And I add another factor: old age population This means a greater number of chronic diseases. Chronic diseases require huge expenses.

The previous amount plunges the family into a dead end: they are drowning in debt to face the so-called Catastrophic health expensesi.e. money invested to attend Finance Family doctor. Numbers vary. According to conservative calculations, the family spends between 30 and 50 percent of its salaries or savings. According to my experience when I worked in… health sector governmentalexpenses can exceed one hundred percent: loved ones get into debt and sometimes borrow to transport the body of a person who came for treatment in a city with high-quality hospitals to their hometown.

Exorbitant health expenditures are one of the biggest scourges faced by any government. Mexico is an example: families become poorer and their number increases by millions His fellow citizens Without any medical care. circle demonic. Nations by forty percent population Without health they lack the present (I do not write the future).

I share an old studio, Black report (1980) conducted in England. The study compared the death rate between 1931 and 1981 between different economic classes. Among other factors highlighted: a) differences in Social classes It’s crucial: the poor die first. b) Differences in social classes affect health; The poor get sicker. C) Class differences have increased over the years. d) The report compared the mortality rate among ineligible individuals, among Partially trained And people with university degrees. The differences were significant: the better qualified lived longer.

It is a shame that we have Policy Don’t keep your old articles, and I’m not saying study them.