Octavio Gómez-Dantés
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 173606 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Octavio Gómez-Dantés |
| PRENOMES | Octavio |
| SOBRENOME | Gómez-Dantés |
| ASSINATURA | GÓMEZ-DANTÉS O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9602-3498 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Health financing inequality in fragmented health systems
Universal health coverage (UHC) depends, among other things, on fair and efficient public financing. In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), fragmented health systems entrench inequalities by linking entitlements to employment status. In Mexico, persistent segmentation and institutional fragmentation have shaped the structure and distribution of public health financing, exemplifying this challenge through a dual public system that separ…
Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico
Despite modest health policy successes, the ethnic gap in ECMH remains unchanged, indicating insufficient action against inequity-producing structures. Ethnic and racial discrimination persists, exacerbated during the pandemic and coinciding with the government's cancellation of targeted social programs and public health insurance focused on the poorest populations, including Indigenous peoples. Thus, prioritizing maternal and child health unders…
Health system financing fragmentation and maternal mortality transition in Mexico, 2000–2022
The results of this study confirm the close relationship between maternal mortality and social inequalities, and suggest that affiliation with social security has ceased to be a differentiating factor in recent years. Understanding the evolution of maternal mortality between the population with and without social security in Mexico allows us to quantify the gap in maternal deaths attributed to inequalities in access to maternal health services, w…
Inequities in the continuum of maternal care in Mexico
Despite efforts to improve maternal care, comprehensive antenatal services reach only 61.8% of women in Mexico. This stresses not only the need for targeted policies to enhance antenatal, delivery, and postnatal coverage at critical stages of care, but also the need to continue strengthening strategies that have rendered good results, and not to eliminate them simply for political-ideological reasons. It is imperative to prioritize reducing exist…
Inequitable Financial Protection in Health for Indigenous Populations
Increase of catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures in Mexico associated to policy changes and the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: In 2003, the Mexican Congress approved a major reform to provide health care services to the poor population through the public insurance scheme Seguro Popular. This program was dismantled in 2019 as part of a set of health system reforms and substituted with the Health Institute for Welfare (INSABI). These changes were implemented during the initial phases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We aimed to examine the impact of thes…
An assessment of the performance of the Mexican health system between 2000 and 2018
This paper offers a comprehensive picture of the performance of the Mexican health system during the period 2000–18. Using high-quality and periodical data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Mexico’s National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure, we assess the evolution of seven types of indicators (health expenditure, health resources, health s…
Hospitalisation and mortality from Covid-19 in Mexican indigenous people
BACKGROUND: Despite having a large indigenous population, little is known about the differences in COVID-19-related health outcomes between indigenous and non-indigenous patients in Mexico. The aim of this study is to analyse the variation in hospitalisation and death between indigenous and non-indigenous patients with COVID-19 to guide future policies and clinical practice. METHODS: We used data from the Mexican Ministry of Health (MoH) to study…
La atención a la salud en Mesoamérica antes y después de 1519
This paper discusses the situation of healthcare in Mesoamerica before and immediately after 1519. In the first 50 years after the Conquest, the Spaniards made extensive use of Nahuatl medicine. However, the influence of this medical tradition was limited due to the rapid imposition of a very different medical system which took little advantage of, among other things, the therapeutic wealth of pre-Hispanic healing traditions
Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage
Cuba’s health system
Use of performance metrics for the measurement of universal coverage for maternal care in Mexico
This study provides evidence for those working in the maternal health metrics and health system performance fields, as well as those interested in achieving universal and effective health care coverage. Based on the perspective of continuity of health care and applying quasi-experimental methods to analyse the cross-sectional 2009 National Demographic Dynamics Survey (n = 14 414 women), we estimated the middle-term effects of Mexico's new public …
Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America
Thank You to Reviewers 2012
The quest for universal health coverage
Lecciones globales de la reforma mexicana de salud
This paper illustrates, using as an example the recent reform of the Mexican health system, the potential of knowledge in the design and implementation of public policies. In the first part the relationship between knowledge and health is described. In part two, the efforts in Mexico to generate evidence that would eventually nourish the design and implementation of health policies are discussed. In the following sections the content and the guid…
Lecciones globales de la reforma mexicana de salud
En este artículo se ilustra, con la reciente reforma al sistema mexicano de salud, el potencial del conocimiento en el diseño e implantación de las políticas públicas. En primer lugar se discute la relación entre conocimiento y salud. En una segunda parte se describen los esfuerzos que se llevaron a cabo en México para generar evidencias que eventualmente nutrieron el diseño e implantación de las políticas locales de salud. En seguida se analizan…
Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico
Evaluación de programa de salud para población no asegurada
OBJETIVO: Presentar los resultados de la evaluación de un programa de salud del Ministerio de Salud de México dirigido a la población no asegurada de los cuatro estados más pobres del país e implantado entre 1991 y 1995. MÉTODOS: Los efectos del programa se evaluaron en tres rubros: i) cobertura de los servicios; ii) prestación de servicios personales y iii) condiciones de salud de la población objetivo. La ampliación de la cobertura se midió a p…
Commerce in health services in North America within the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement
This article discusses the future of commercial trade in personal health services in North America within the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the latter's potential influence on health care for the Mexican people. It begins by defining concepts related to international trade of services, particularly health services, and then proceeds to analyze elements of NAFTA that affect the delivery, regulation, and financing o…
Monitoring and Protecting Health and Human Rights in Mexico
This paper describes a unique system through which health care-related human rights are now being monitored and protected in Mexico. Based on the ombudsman concept, the system focuses on identifying and responding to violations of human rights and dignity which may occur in the context of health care delivery. Experience thus far has been encouraging; the Mexican population has identified and used the National Commission of Human Rights as a foru…
Consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement for health services
OBJECTIVES. The purposes of the study were to assess the potential impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on medical care in Mexico and to identify internal measures Mexico could take to increase the benefits and minimize the risks of free trade. METHODS. The dual nature of the health sector is examined; the Mexican, Canadian, and US health care systems are compared; and modes and consequences of international exchange of healt…
Hospitalisation and mortality from Covid-19 in Mexican indigenous people
BACKGROUND: Despite having a large indigenous population, little is known about the differences in COVID-19-related health outcomes between indigenous and non-indigenous patients in Mexico. The aim of this study is to analyse the variation in hospitalisation and death between indigenous and non-indigenous patients with COVID-19 to guide future policies and clinical practice. METHODS: We used data from the Mexican Ministry of Health (MoH) to study…
Consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement for health services
OBJECTIVES. The purposes of the study were to assess the potential impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on medical care in Mexico and to identify internal measures Mexico could take to increase the benefits and minimize the risks of free trade. METHODS. The dual nature of the health sector is examined; the Mexican, Canadian, and US health care systems are compared; and modes and consequences of international exchange of healt…
Cuba’s health system
Monitoring and Protecting Health and Human Rights in Mexico
This paper describes a unique system through which health care-related human rights are now being monitored and protected in Mexico. Based on the ombudsman concept, the system focuses on identifying and responding to violations of human rights and dignity which may occur in the context of health care delivery. Experience thus far has been encouraging; the Mexican population has identified and used the National Commission of Human Rights as a foru…
Consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement for health services
OBJECTIVES. The purposes of the study were to assess the potential impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on medical care in Mexico and to identify internal measures Mexico could take to increase the benefits and minimize the risks of free trade. METHODS. The dual nature of the health sector is examined; the Mexican, Canadian, and US health care systems are compared; and modes and consequences of international exchange of healt…
Monitoring and Protecting Health and Human Rights in Mexico
This paper describes a unique system through which health care-related human rights are now being monitored and protected in Mexico. Based on the ombudsman concept, the system focuses on identifying and responding to violations of human rights and dignity which may occur in the context of health care delivery. Experience thus far has been encouraging; the Mexican population has identified and used the National Commission of Human Rights as a foru…
Commerce in health services in North America within the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement
This article discusses the future of commercial trade in personal health services in North America within the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the latter's potential influence on health care for the Mexican people. It begins by defining concepts related to international trade of services, particularly health services, and then proceeds to analyze elements of NAFTA that affect the delivery, regulation, and financing o…
Evaluación de programa de salud para población no asegurada
OBJETIVO: Presentar los resultados de la evaluación de un programa de salud del Ministerio de Salud de México dirigido a la población no asegurada de los cuatro estados más pobres del país e implantado entre 1991 y 1995. MÉTODOS: Los efectos del programa se evaluaron en tres rubros: i) cobertura de los servicios; ii) prestación de servicios personales y iii) condiciones de salud de la población objetivo. La ampliación de la cobertura se midió a p…
Comprehensive reform to improve health system performance in Mexico
Lecciones globales de la reforma mexicana de salud
This paper illustrates, using as an example the recent reform of the Mexican health system, the potential of knowledge in the design and implementation of public policies. In the first part the relationship between knowledge and health is described. In part two, the efforts in Mexico to generate evidence that would eventually nourish the design and implementation of health policies are discussed. In the following sections the content and the guid…
Lecciones globales de la reforma mexicana de salud
En este artículo se ilustra, con la reciente reforma al sistema mexicano de salud, el potencial del conocimiento en el diseño e implantación de las políticas públicas. En primer lugar se discute la relación entre conocimiento y salud. En una segunda parte se describen los esfuerzos que se llevaron a cabo en México para generar evidencias que eventualmente nutrieron el diseño e implantación de las políticas locales de salud. En seguida se analizan…
The quest for universal health coverage
Thank You to Reviewers 2012
Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America
Use of performance metrics for the measurement of universal coverage for maternal care in Mexico
This study provides evidence for those working in the maternal health metrics and health system performance fields, as well as those interested in achieving universal and effective health care coverage. Based on the perspective of continuity of health care and applying quasi-experimental methods to analyse the cross-sectional 2009 National Demographic Dynamics Survey (n = 14 414 women), we estimated the middle-term effects of Mexico's new public …
Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage
Cuba’s health system
La atención a la salud en Mesoamérica antes y después de 1519
This paper discusses the situation of healthcare in Mesoamerica before and immediately after 1519. In the first 50 years after the Conquest, the Spaniards made extensive use of Nahuatl medicine. However, the influence of this medical tradition was limited due to the rapid imposition of a very different medical system which took little advantage of, among other things, the therapeutic wealth of pre-Hispanic healing traditions
Hospitalisation and mortality from Covid-19 in Mexican indigenous people
BACKGROUND: Despite having a large indigenous population, little is known about the differences in COVID-19-related health outcomes between indigenous and non-indigenous patients in Mexico. The aim of this study is to analyse the variation in hospitalisation and death between indigenous and non-indigenous patients with COVID-19 to guide future policies and clinical practice. METHODS: We used data from the Mexican Ministry of Health (MoH) to study…
Increase of catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures in Mexico associated to policy changes and the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: In 2003, the Mexican Congress approved a major reform to provide health care services to the poor population through the public insurance scheme Seguro Popular. This program was dismantled in 2019 as part of a set of health system reforms and substituted with the Health Institute for Welfare (INSABI). These changes were implemented during the initial phases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We aimed to examine the impact of thes…
An assessment of the performance of the Mexican health system between 2000 and 2018
This paper offers a comprehensive picture of the performance of the Mexican health system during the period 2000–18. Using high-quality and periodical data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Mexico’s National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure, we assess the evolution of seven types of indicators (health expenditure, health resources, health s…
Inequitable Financial Protection in Health for Indigenous Populations
Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico
Despite modest health policy successes, the ethnic gap in ECMH remains unchanged, indicating insufficient action against inequity-producing structures. Ethnic and racial discrimination persists, exacerbated during the pandemic and coinciding with the government's cancellation of targeted social programs and public health insurance focused on the poorest populations, including Indigenous peoples. Thus, prioritizing maternal and child health unders…
Health system financing fragmentation and maternal mortality transition in Mexico, 2000–2022
The results of this study confirm the close relationship between maternal mortality and social inequalities, and suggest that affiliation with social security has ceased to be a differentiating factor in recent years. Understanding the evolution of maternal mortality between the population with and without social security in Mexico allows us to quantify the gap in maternal deaths attributed to inequalities in access to maternal health services, w…
Inequities in the continuum of maternal care in Mexico
Despite efforts to improve maternal care, comprehensive antenatal services reach only 61.8% of women in Mexico. This stresses not only the need for targeted policies to enhance antenatal, delivery, and postnatal coverage at critical stages of care, but also the need to continue strengthening strategies that have rendered good results, and not to eliminate them simply for political-ideological reasons. It is imperative to prioritize reducing exist…
Health financing inequality in fragmented health systems
Universal health coverage (UHC) depends, among other things, on fair and efficient public financing. In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), fragmented health systems entrench inequalities by linking entitlements to employment status. In Mexico, persistent segmentation and institutional fragmentation have shaped the structure and distribution of public health financing, exemplifying this challenge through a dual public system that separ…
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