ArticleInternational journal of social determinants of health and health services2024
The Legacy of President Lázaro Cárdenas for Health Care Reform in Today's Mexico.
Article in International journal of social determinants of health and health services, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- [Cuauhtémoc in the defense of Mexico-Tenochtitlan: The work of Luis Ortiz Monasterio in Oaxtepec].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2026Article
- Political economy of primary health care resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean: insights from the WB/PAHO Commission recommendations.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Review
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Abstract
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's historic election victory in 2018 marked a sharp break from past decades of neoliberal socioeconomic policies. López Obrador campaigned on the promise of deep reform, with health care high on his agenda. The public health care sector had been decimated by decades of budget cuts, eroding workers' morale and patients' confidence, and crippling all aspects of the system. This article looks back to the creation of the nation's public health care system in the early twentieth century during the administration of President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940). This "universal" system was designed to implement a central social justice goal of the Mexican Revolution of health care for all. The program rested on two pillars: providing care to the nation's vast, impoverished rural population and actively engaging communities in their own health care. Our objective is to critically assess the two presidents' health care initiatives within the distinct historical contexts of their administrations.
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