Old principles, persisting challenges: Maternal health care market alignment in Mexico in the search for UHC.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to analyze the alignment of supply and demand for antenatal care (ANC) in Mexico based on the definition of access provided by Donabedian: the "degree of adjustment" between resources and needs. Alignment was studied in the teenage and adult population of Mexico that lacked conventional social security between 2008 and 2015, a period of expanding financial resources for health and public health insurance coverage. Spatial econometric methods were used to analyze data from the Ministry of Health on the supply and demand for ANC in 2,314 municipalities (94% of all municipalities in Mexico). During this period, the relative weight of ANC demand among adolescents increased 37% while the production of antenatal consultations for adolescent and adult women remained u

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Franco R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028103 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature