Mexico's Health System: More Comprehensive Reform Needed
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Mexico's Health System: More Comprehensive Reform Needed
The article by Homedes and Ugalde in this week’s issue of PLoS Medicine is an important addition to the global discussion about Mexico’s 2003 health reform, the Seguro Popular (SP) [1]. While this reform has been controversial in Mexico [2], it has been highly praised in international circles. The Lancet ran a special series on the reform in 2006, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton lauded S...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000130