Correction to: Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico.

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Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico.

Background: The third Sustainable Development Goal aims to ensure healthy lives and to promote well-being for all at all ages. The health system plays a key role in achieving these goals and must have sufficient human resources in order to provide care to the population according to their needs and expectations.

Methods: This paper explores the issues of unemployment, underemployment, and labor wastage in physicians and nurses in Mexico, all of which serve as barriers to achieving universal health coverage.

[Human resources needed to affter health prevention and promotion to adults in primary health care].

Objective: To estimate human resources (HR) needed to deliver prevention and health promotion actions to the population of 20 years and more in units of primary health care (UPHC).

Materials And Methods: We included 20 UPHC; one urban and one rural for each of the ten selected Mexican states. HR were estimated based on the time to do prevention and health promotion activities, from which a budget was calculated.

[Identification of users using cluster analysis according to degree of satisfaction with geriatric care services].

The aim of this study was to identify groups of users according to their degree of satisfaction with geriatric care services and determine the primary factors associated with satisfaction. This was a cross-sectional study of 181 people enrolled in 36 modules pertaining to the State Workers Social Security Institute (ISSSTE) in Mexico. Degree of satisfaction was measured according to the following three areas: general characteristics of services offered, friendliness of staff and infrastructure.

Social participation and quality of health care: the experience of citizens' health representatives in Mexico.

Objective: This article describes the experience of the aval ciudadano "Citizens' Representative" (CR) in improving the Mexican health care system.

Methods: This is a qualitative study which took place in eight Mexican states in 2008. It evaluates different aspects of a nationwide program to increase the quality of health care services (National Crusade for Quality in Health Services).

[Fund for Protection against Catastrophic Expenses].

Objective: To document the status of operational and managerial processes of the Fund for Protection against Catastrophic Expenses (FPGC), as well as to describe its evolution, and to explore the relationship between covered diseases and the Mexican health profile.

Material And Methods: This is a joint management study, which included a qualitative and a quantitative phase. We conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants.

[Perception of the quality of care in the health services in Mexico. perspective of the users].

Objective: To describe the quality of health services as perceived by users in Mexico, as well as an analysis of predisposing and enabling factors to the use of these services.

Material And Methods: Data were selected from the National Health Survey II of 1994. The survey contains information from 3324 ambulatory health service users who sought care in the two week period previous to the survey.

[Motives for non-vaccination: critical review of the international literature, 1950-1990].

Many countries have acknowledged that vaccination programs call for a mastery of technical and organizational elements if they are to become accessible to the population. One of these elements has been greatly underestimated: the participation of populations and their motivations. Experiences in several countries are here analysed, on the basis of a bibliographic revision of the period 1950-1990.

[Policies for training and employment of physicians in Mexico 1917-1988].

In this article we analyze education and employment policies for medical doctors in Mexico, which have led to a situation characterized by unemployment, under-employment and multiple-employment in urban areas, as well as lack of services in several rural zones. The analysis is divided into four defined periods according to the modes of State participation in health care: 1917-1958 (creation and slow growth of health care institutions); 1959-1967 (growth of scientific medicine); 1968-1979 (crisis period); and 1980-1988 (reform). In each one of these periods the evolution of medical manpower is analysed through the actions of three main actors: the State, the universities and the medical profession.

[The use of anthropologic methods for studying the causes of lack of vaccination. The case of Nativitas, Xochimilco].

The relationship between the socio-cultural characteristics of a population and their participation in immunization programs is described in this paper. An anthropological approach was utilized to study the reasons why certain population groups do not participate in the immunization programs or do so inadequately. The study was undertaken in a community south of Mexico City.