Obstacles and opportunities for monitoring ethnicity-based inequalities in maternal health care: Lessons from Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring and reducing inequalities in health care has become more relevant since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs bring an opportunity to put the assessment of inequalities by ethnicity on the agenda of decision-makers. The objective of this qualitative study is to know how current monitoring is carried out and to identify what factors influence the process in order to incorporate indicators that allow the evaluation of inequalities by ethnicity.

Methods

We conducted 17 semi-structured interviews with key informants from the health ministry, monitoring observatories, research centers, and international organizations, involved in maternal health care monitoring in Mexico. Our analysis was interpretative-phenomenological and focus

SUBMITTER: Armenta-Paulino N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544348 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature