[A qualitative approach to drug supply in Mexico: evaluation in the services for population with no medical insurance].

Objective: To identify the main problems that the drug supply chain (DSCh) faces in the state health systems (SHS); establishing how they relate to the degree of outsourcing.

Material And Methods: Officials of the SHS hospitals and health centers were interviewed in a sample of 12 entities during the first half of 2008. Transcripts of the interviews were processed through the qualitative analysis program Atlas.

[The operation of the health program SICALIDAD: the role of managers in primary care and hospitals].

Objective: To characterize the role of quality managers in health care units and health districts, identifying the constraints they experience in their performance.

Material And Methods: An interview guide and a questionnaire were carried out and were applied to quality managers in nine states as well as in Mexico City´s Health Services, in a Reference Federal Hospital and in a National Institute of Health. These instruments were analyzed using SPSS and Atlas.