Eduardo González-Pier

TL;DR: This study offers a state-level quantification of disease burden and risk factor attribution in Mexico for the first time and concludes that Mexico is experiencing a more complex, dissonant health transition than historically observed.

TL;DR: Evidence indicates that Seguro Popular is improving access to health services and reducing the prevalence of catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures, especially for the poor, and recent studies also show improvement in effective coverage.

TL;DR: The main features and initial results of the Mexican reform effort are described, and lessons for other countries considering health-system transformations under similarly challenging circumstances are derived.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of Seguro Popular on different dimensions of the health system and found that affiliation is preferentially reaching the poor and the marginalised communities.

TL;DR: Policy implications include lessons on the use of available and proven analytical tools to set national health priorities, the usefulness of priority-setting results to guide long-term capacity development, the importance of favouring an institutionalised approach to cost-effectiveness analysis, and the need for local technical capacity strengthening.