Health Care Challenges In Mexico
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Health care challenges in Mexico.
For over a decade, the Mexican government has devised policies to attain universal health coverage, aiming for accessibility, offering financial protection, and improving the quality of health care. However, the Mexican government fails to allocate enough funds for the health system. In addition, there is a high population in the nation, and as a result, the health system faces variance challenges, such as poor health habits, lack of healthcare equipment and inequity.
Firstly, Mexico has a high population of over 40 million populace leaving below the poverty line. As a result, people have poor health habits, resulting in illnesses such as obesity, abuse of drugs like cigarettes, alcohol, and cocaine. Therefore, the health system has to deal with severe injuries caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol and other drugs. On the same lines, it has to manage communicable and non-communicable diseases in large populations (Holtz, 2017).
Secondly, health care systems are divided into public and private sectors. However, these facilities are underfunded and lack the proper equipment to treat and care for their citizen. Although there are private hospitals in the nation, some of them lack laboratories, radiography equipment, and workers shortage. The private hospital exists only to generate revenue for its owners rather than its sick citizens. On the other hand, employed individuals are insured by the social security hospital fund, and their monthly contribution caters to the public hospital expenditures. Lastly, there are no measures to combat corruption in the country; thus, the government lacks funds to develop the infrastructure for easier access to health centres. Therefore, there is inequity relating to the accessibility of the healthcare facilities (Holtz, 2017).
In conclusion, the existing health system is insufficient to deal with and respond efficiently to the medical needs of its growing population. However, the working population exceeds the nonworking population; thus, this is the right time to improve the health system and offer quality health services. Therefore, the political leader requires devising measures to combat corruption and call for foreign investors and partners to explore advanced methods in the health industry.
Reference
Holtz, C. (2017). Global Health Issues and Policies. Third Edition. Jones and Bartlett Learning.