Mexico is reaching universal health coverage in 2012.
Inequities in accessing health care and related services in Mexico are markedly higher among indigenous peoples, especially women and other vulnerable groups.
Latin America is home to the greatest inequities in the world, including inequality in access to quality health services.
Mexico is increasingly implementing health reforms directly informed by research-based evidence.
Private funding - including out-of-pocket expenditure - is a considerable source of health financing in Latin America, where families can face economic ruin from catastrophic health expenses.
Safeguarding the Health Sector in Times of Macroeconomic Instability presents the results of an international initiative to document the effects of how health systems in the developing world have responded to macroeconomic austerity and a