Breast cancer policy in Latin America: account of achievements and challenges in five countries.

Background: The recent increase of breast cancer mortality has put on alert to most countries in the region. However it has taken some time before breast cancer could be considered as a relevant problem. Only in recent years breast cancer has been considered a priority in some Latin American countries and resources have been mobilized to confront the problem at the institutional level.

[Labor regularization of health workers paid with funds from the Mexican System for Social Protection in Health].

Objective: The process of regularization of workers paid by the Social Protection Health System of Mexico is described and analyzed.

Materials And Methods: Primary and secondary data collected by the external evaluation of the Mexican System for Social Protection in Health in 2009 were used.

Results: The regularization clearly improved the labor conditions of workers contracted by the system but a broader systemic implication of regularization does not seem to be necessarily positive.

[Strategies by Mexican migrants in the USA to seek health care].

Objective: To identify the strategies used by Mexican migrants to access health services in the U.S. and Mexico.