Frenk is an eminent authority on global health who. The goal of phi was to transform mexicos public health service for the uninsured into a health insurance program. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. In that year, mexico formally introduced seguro popular, or the popular. Seguro popular specifies distributive objectives at both the state and household level. Frenk is currently the president of the university of miami. The first part of this work thus presents the main antecedents for the changes made during the last two decades of the last. Frenk also served at the world health organization who as executive director in charge of evidence and information for policy, the.
Improving pathology for better cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income. Series health system reform in mexico 1 comprehensive. The ambitious reform, launched by then secretary of health julio frenk, has since received considerable international attention. Frenk is currently the president of the university of. Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income. Prospects for health in mexico after the presidential. Hector arreola, lic en ec, m en ec,4 julio frenk, mc, phd.
This paper reports encouraging results in the achieve ment. Jul 14, 2018 its absurd to condemn seguro popular, said julio frenk, who served as mexicos health secretary from 2000 to 2006. Mexicos seguro popular, 2001 2007 international budget. Biography dr julio frenk world health organization. En su conferencia magistral a quince anos del seguro popular. Cobertura universal en salud en mexico ar t i c u l o hacia. The center of the reform was the creation of seguro popular popular health insurance, 40 which divides personal health services into essential packages of interventions financed by the fund for. Julio frenk to join commonwealth fund board of directors. About president julio frenk presidential inauguration 2016. Mexicos seguro popular popular health insurance program, introduced in 2003, was an attempt to do exactly this. Historia del seguro popular en mexico by arturo medina on prezi. Guillermo soberon, phd,2 salomon chertorivski, msc,6 julio frenk, phd.
A major goal of this reform was to reduce the gaps in health care access and expenditure between populations enrolled in social security and those without, to reduce. In that year, mexico formally introduced seguro popular, or the popular health insurance phi program. Families will not reaffiliate unless a minimum level of quality and responsiveness is guaranteed, while seguro popular the seguro popular. Julio frenk, successfully moved health reform forward in mexico to a new stage, leading to the adoption of seguro popular in 2003. Presidente julio frenk biografia office of the president. Historia del seguro popular en mexico by arturo medina. Knaul fm, shulman ln, gralow j, quick j, bhadelia a, frenk j. Imss, seguro popular, imss oportunidades, hospitales regionales, etc. He also holds an academic appointment there as professor of public health sciences at the leonard m. At the state level a stated objective of seguro popular is to reduce inequalities in 1 this paper benefited fromvery useful comments health secretary julio frenk in a presentation to the. Julio frenk served as the minister of health of mexico from 2000 to 2006. Julio frenk, a noted leader in global health and a renowned scholar, became the sixth president of the university of miami on august 16, 2015. Frenk was the founding directorgeneral of the national institute of public health in mexico, one of the leading institutions of its kind in the developing world.
Jun 09, 2019 imss, seguro popular, imss oportunidades, hospitales regionales, etc. Its absurd to condemn seguro popular, said julio frenk, who served as mexicos health secretary from 2000 to 2006. Evaluating the implementation of mexicos health reform. Julio frenk, the newly anointed president of the university of miami, is a world authority on public health. This innovative initiative is grad ually protecting the 50 million mexicans, most of them poor, who had until now been excluded from formal social insur ance. Harvard health dean julio frenk picked as new um president. Julio jose frenk mora born december 20, 1953 is a mexican physician and former secretary of health of mexico. He is the university of miamis first hispanic and native spanishspeaking president. There he pursued an ambitious agenda to reform the nations health system and introduced a program of comprehensive universal coverage, known as seguro popular, which expanded access to health care for more than 55 million previously uninsured mexicans. Democratization of health in mexico julio frenk et al.
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