The Global Health System: Strengthening National Health Systems as the Next Step for Global Progress

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

In the second in a series of articles on the changing nature of global health institutions, Julio Frenk offers a framework to better understand national health systems and their role in global health.

Related collections

Most cited references 2

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found

Bridging the divide: global lessons from evidence-based health policy in Mexico.

Julio J Frenk (2006)

During the past 6 years, Mexico has undergone a large-scale transformation of its health system. This paper provides an overview of the main features of the Mexican reform experience. Because of its high degree of social inequality, Mexico is a microcosm of the range of problems that affect countries at all levels of development. Its health system had not kept up with the pressures of the double burden of disease, whereby malnutrition, common infections, and reproductive health problems coexist with non-communicable disease and injury. With half of its population uninsured, Mexico was facing an unacceptable paradox: whereas health is a key factor in the fight against poverty, a large number of families became impoverished by expenditures in health care and drugs. The reform was designed to correct this paradox by introducing a new scheme called Popular Health Insurance (Seguro Popular). This innovative initiative is gradually protecting the 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor, who had until now been excluded from formal social insurance. This paper reports encouraging results in the achievement of the ultimate objective of the reform: universal access to high-quality services with social protection for all.

0 comments Cited 69 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

Record: found
Abstract: not found
Article: not found

Global action on health systems: a proposal for the Toyako G8 summit.

Michael R Reich, Keizo Takemi, Marc J. Roberts … (2008)

0 comments Cited 26 times – based on 0 reviews      Review now

Bookmark

All references

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med

Journal ID (publisher-id): PLoS

Journal ID (pmc): plosmed

Title: PLoS Medicine

Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )

ISSN (Print): 1549-1277

ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676

Publication date Collection: January 2010

Publication date (Print): January 2010

Publication date (Electronic): 12 January 2010

Volume: 7

Issue: 1

Electronic Location Identifier: e1000089

Affiliations

[1]Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Author notes

* E-mail: jfrenk@ 123456hsph.harvard.edu

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: JF. Wrote the first draft of the paper: JF.

The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities for improving health care in their societies.

Article

Publisher ID: 08-PLME-PF-2805R1

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000089

PMC ID: 2797599

PubMed ID: 20069038

SO-VID: bc8b39f7-49db-4f3e-9f4e-3d02b5261f4b

Copyright © Julio Frenk. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

History

Page count

Pages: 3

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Cited by 116

See all cited by

Most referenced authors 25

See all reference authors

- Version 1