Lags in the provision of obstetric services to indigenous women and their implications for universal access to health care in Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Through quantitative and qualitative methods, in this article the authors describe the perspectives of indigenous women who received antenatal and childbirth medical care within a care model that incorporates a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Partners in Health. They discuss whether the NGO model better resolves the care-seeking process, including access to health care, compared with a standard model of care in government-subsidised health care units (setting of health services networks). Universal health coverage advocates access for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable populations as a priority. However, the issue of access includes problems related to the effect of certain structural social determinants that limit different aspects of the obstetric care process. The findings of th

SUBMITTER: Juarez-Ramirez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7888012 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature