Reports Outline Health Insurance Study Findings from National Institute of Public Health (Use of performance metrics for the measurement of universal…

Reports Outline Health Insurance Study Findings from National Institute of Public Health (Use of performance metrics for the measurement of universal coverage for maternal care in Mexico)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- New research on Health Insurance is the subject of a report. According to news reporting from Cuernavaca, Mexico, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "This study provides evidence for those working in the maternal health metrics and health system performance fields, as well as those interested in achieving universal and effective health care coverage. Based on the perspective of continuity of health care and applying quasi-experimental methods to analyse the cross-sectional 2009 National Demographic Dynamics Survey (n=14 414 women), we estimated the middle-term effects of Mexico's new public health insurance scheme, Seguro Popular de Salud (SPS) (vs women without health insurance) on seven indicators related to maternal health care (according to official guidelines): (a) access to skilled antenatal care (ANC); (b) timely ANC; © frequent ANC; (d) adequate content of ANC; (e) institutional delivery; (f) postnatal consultation and (g) access to standardized comprehensive antenatal and postnatal care (or the intersection of the seven process indicators)."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the National Institute of Public Health, "Our results show that 94% of all pregnancies were attended by trained health personnel. However, comprehensive access to ANC declines steeply in both groups as we move along the maternal healthcare continuum. The percentage of institutional deliveries providing timely, frequent and adequate content of ANC reached 70% among SPS women (vs 64.7% in the uninsured), and only 57.4% of SPS-affiliated women received standardized comprehensive care (vs 53.7% in the uninsured group). In Mexico, access to comprehensive antenatal and postnatal care as defined by Mexican guidelines (in accordance to WHO recommendations) is far from optimal. Even though a positive influence of SPS on maternal care was documented, important challenges still remain."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Our results identified key bottlenecks of the maternal healthcare continuum that should be addressed by policy makers through a combination of supply side interventions and interventions directed to social determinants of access to health care."

For more information on this research see: Use of performance metrics for the measurement of universal coverage for maternal care in Mexico. Health Policy and Planning, 2017;32(5):625-633. (Oxford University Press - www.oup.com/; Health Policy and Planning - heapol.oxfordjournals.org)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E. Servan-Mori, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Additional authors for this research include D. Contreras-Loya, O. Gomez-Dantes, G. Nigenda, S.G. Sosa-Rubi and R. Lozano.

Keywords for this news article include: Mexico, Cuernavaca, Health Insurance, North and Central America.

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