Perioperative Medicine in Mexico

Abstract

Mexico is the 15th largest country in the world and the 11th most populous one, with a current population of ~125 million people. It is considered to be a middle-income country because it is one of the countries with the highest Gross National Income (GNI) in Latin America. Nevertheless, income disparity and poverty are the country's main health challenges.Even though the country's health budget remained above 5.4% of its gross domestic product (GDP) between 2010 and 2019, Mexico's Gini coefficient (used to gauge economic income/wealth inequality within a country, with values between 0 and 1, 1 being the most unequal) was 0.46. 1 By contrast the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Gini coefficient average,

Availability of laparoscopic surgery in Mexico's public health system: a nationwide retrospective analysis

“…Nonetheless, those without registered insurance receive services from a system considered second-tier in terms of quality and where tertiary-care hospitals are less accessible. 23 In our study, only patients with had employment-based insurance were more likely to undergo laparoscopic procedures (51.5%). The laparoscopic approach was less commonly used for all other insurance status across all procedure categories.…”