ArticlePloS one2018
Welfare effects of health insurance in Mexico: The case of Seguro Popular de Salud.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Experiences of Strategic Purchasing of Healthcare in Nine Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Qualitative Review.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of the literature on the impact of the Seguro Popular.Health research policy and systems · 2022Pooled it
- Health insurance coverage in Mexico: progress, inequalities and remaining challenges towards UHC2030.Health research policy and systems · 2025Article
- A dynamic microsimulation of health outcomes in Mexico's aging population.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- The association between becoming uninsured and forgoing medical care among middle-aged and older adults in Mexico with chronic health conditions.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Equity in out-of-pocket health expenditure: Evidence from a health insurance program reform in Mexico.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Increase of catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures in Mexico associated to policy changes and the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Health care utilization for patients with stroke: a 3-year cross-sectional study of China's two urban health insurance schemes across four cities.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Strategies for financing social health insurance schemes for providing universal health care: a comparative analysis of five countries.Global health action · 2021Review
- Improving the effective maternal-child health care coverage through synergies between supply and demand-side interventions: evidence from Mexico.Journal of global health · 2019Article
- The Impact of Seguro Popular on the Progression of Disabilities Among Older Adults With Chronic Degenerative Diseases in Mexico.Research on agingArticle
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Abstract
This study contributes with original empirical evidence on the distributional and welfare effects of one of the most important health policies implemented by the Mexican government in the last decade, the Seguro Popular de Salud (SPS). We analyze the effect of SPS on households' welfare using a decomposable index that considers insured and uninsured households' response to out-of-pocket (OOP) payments using both social welfare weights and inequality aversion. The disaggregation of the welfare index allows us to explore the heterogeneity of the SPS impact on households' welfare. We applied propensity score matching to reduce the self-selection bias of being SPS insured. Overall results suggest non-conclusive results of the impact of SPS on households' welfare. When we disaggregated the welfare index by different sub-population groups, our results suggest that households' beneficiaries of SPS with older adults or living in larger cities are better protected against OOP health care payments than their uninsured counterparts. However, no effect was found among SPS-insured households living in rural and smaller cities, which is a result that could be attributed to limited access to health resources in these regions. Scaling up health insurance coverage is a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure the protection of SPS coverage against financial risks among the poor.
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