The Transformation of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS): Progress and Challenges
| Autor: | Regina García Cuéllar, José Antonio González Anaya |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economic growth
Latin Americans media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health Informatics Social security Health Information Management Order (exchange) Development economics Institution Economics Quality (business) Bureaucracy Emerging markets Administration (government) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Health Systems & Reform. 1:189-199 |
| ISSN: | 2328-8620 2328-8604 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23288604.2015.1061096 |
| Popis: | —In 2013, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the largest social security institution in Latin America, began a major transformation with two clear objectives: first, to improve the quality of its services in order to achieve better health outcomes and increase satisfaction among its 70 million beneficiaries and, second, to stabilize the Institute's finances. As in many other emerging economies, Mexico's demographic and epidemiological transitions, in conjunction with bureaucratic inefficiencies, left the Institute in a precarious financial situation. In 2012, the previous administration reported to the Mexican Congress that the Institute could remain financially self-sufficient until 2014. In the first year of this administration (2013), the deficit was reduced by half. By the second year (2014), the deficit was stabilized at the same level and the trend in the use of reserves consolidated. These results consolidated financial stability of the IMSS and, even better, were carried out whi... |
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