Twenty-Five Years of Convoluted Health Reforms in Mexico

Núria Homedes is with UT Houston, Antonio Ugalde is with UT Austin.Mexico's neoliberal health care reforms began in 1983 as a condition for Mexico to receive loans from the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which were needed because of the 1980s world recession. The first reform (1983) was a failed attempt to decentralize the Ministry of Health (MoH) by transferring financial responsibilities without devolving adequate decision-making authority to the states. The second reform (1994) advanced the decentralization of the MoH and attempted to increase the exposure of the major public social security scheme to private sector competition. In 2003, a third reform, the Seguro Popular (SP), emphasized improved access and services for the poor. Although accessibility has increased, the Mexican reforms have not resulted in significant reductions of health inequities, or in increased efficiency, productivity, or quality, despite their costs.Sociolog

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From Scientists to Merchants: The Transformation of the Pharmaceutical Industry and its Impact on Health

The number of innovative drugs reaching the market has decreased steadily during the last several years to a handful per year. At the same time, the amount of resources allocated by the pharmaceutical industries to promotion and marketing has increased at a faster pace than those allocated to research and development of new products. The paper presents the hypothesis that for the large corporations, the production of me-too drugs is more profitable than to invest in research and development of innovative products. Gaining a market share of me-too drugs requires large investments in promotion and marketing, one result of which is a division of labor among pharmaceutical firms. Because small firms lack the large resources needed for promotion and marketing, they carry out an increasing share of the research and development and sell the patents to the large corporations

Latin America: Capital Accumulation, Health and the Role of International Institutions

Objectives: This article analyzes the transformation of the health sector during the second half of the twentieth century and presents information on the role that international institutions play in capital accumulation

Estudio sobre ciertos aspectos de la elasticidad en los tejidos de punto.

Estudio realizado sobre tejido obtenidos exclusivamente en máquinas tricotosas rectilíneas y circulares, pudiendo en cualquier otro tipo de maquinaria, las consecuencias que de este trabajo dimanen.Peer Reviewe