Improving health system performance in Mexico

[...]the achievement of effective coverage through Seguro Popular was heterogeneous and dependent on local capacity to deliver services.4 As shown by Knaul and colleagues' assessment and an independent systematic review in 2022,4 Seguro Popular had mixed results in its impacts on financial protection and treatment effectiveness. Seguro Popular's heterogeneous effects on health outcomes could have resulted from its focus on increasing enrolment and expanding the number of health services financed, without equal efforts to guarantee access to primary care services and diagnostic tests and to raise the quality of care across all levels of the health system. [...]expanding access and improving quality should be sought together, in order to achieve impacts on health system performance outcomes. [...]continual monitoring and evaluation of Mexico's health system is needed with public transparency and accountability.