Users' perception of quality as a driver of private healthcare use in Mexico: Insights from the People's Voice Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Mexican government has pursued multiple initiatives to improve healthcare coverage and financial protection. Yet, out-of-pocket health spending and use of private sector providers in Mexico remains high. In this paper, we sought to describe the characteristics of public and private healthcare users, describe recent visit quality across provider types, and to assess whether perceiving the public healthcare sector as poor quality is associated with private health sector use.

Methods and findings

We analyzed the cross-sectional People's Voice Survey conducted from December 2022 to January 2023. We used Chi-square tests to compare contextual, individual, and need-for-care factors and ratings of most recent visits between users of public (social security and other p

SUBMITTER: Doubova SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11198766 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature