Health Insurance and the Aging: Evidence From the <i>Seguro Popular</i> Program in Mexico

Parker, Susan W.; Sáenz, Joseph; Wong, Rebeca

doi:10.1007/s13524-017-0645-4

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“…It seems that those households prefer or are forced to consume private services. This structural failure in the system, in which SPS-insured households did not find effective care through the public system network causes considerable limitations in the SPS achievements concerning household’s welfare protection [ 52 ].…”

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Welfare effects of health insurance in Mexico: The case of Seguro Popular de Salud

García-Díaz

Sosa-Rubí²,

Serván‐Mori³

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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This study contributes with original empirical evidence on the distributional and welfare effects of one of the most important health policies implemented by the Mexican government in the last decade, the Seguro Popular de Salud (SPS). We analyze the effect of SPS on households’ welfare using a decomposable index that considers insured and uninsured households’ response to out-of-pocket (OOP) payments using both social welfare weights and inequality aversion. The disaggregation of the welfare index allows us to explore the heterogeneity of the SPS impact on households’ welfare. We applied propensity score matching to reduce the self-selection bias of being SPS insured. Overall results suggest non-conclusive results of the impact of SPS on households’ welfare. When we disaggregated the welfare index by different sub-population groups, our results suggest that households’ beneficiaries of SPS with older adults or living in larger cities are better protected against OOP health care payments than their uninsured counterparts. However, no effect was found among SPS-insured households living in rural and smaller cities, which is a result that could be attributed to limited access to health resources in these regions. Scaling up health insurance coverage is a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure the protection of SPS coverage against financial risks among the poor.

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Welfare effects of health insurance in Mexico: The case of Seguro Popular de Salud

García-Díaz

Sosa-Rubí²,

Serván‐Mori³

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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“…Until recently, Mexico had limited public resources for older adults despite its burgeoning aging population. The introduction of universal health care in 2009 through Seguro Popular was critical in drastically increasing the number of older adults with access to health insurance (Parker et al, 2014; Teruel et al, 2014). Yet many older Mexicans still rely on their children for financial support because they lack pensions or retirement accounts (Juarez and Pfutze, 2015); a large share of the older population worked and continues to work in the informal sector (Aguila et al, 2011; OECD, 2013; Sheehan and Riosmena, 2013).…”

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Adult children's education and changes to parents' physical health in Mexico

Yahirun

Sheehan

Hayward

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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The well-being of older adults is frequently tied to support from their adult children. Here, we assess whether the education of adult offspring is associated with changes to older parents’ short- and long-term health in Mexico, a rapidly aging context with historically limited institutional support for the elderly. Educational expansion over the past half century, however, provides older adults with greater resources to rely on via the education of their children. Using longitudinal data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (2001–2012), we find that offspring education is not associated with short-term changes in parents’ physical functioning, but is associated with increased parental longevity, net of children’s financial status and transfers. In addition, we find that mothers’ longevity is more sensitive to offspring education than fathers. Our findings add to a growing body of literature that urges policy-makers to consider the multi-generational advantages of expanding educational opportunities in Mexico.

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“…However, recent government efforts to provide health insurance for the uninsured through the Seguro Popular program now provide basic health care to the elderly. Approximately 51 million individuals, nearly half of the Mexican population, were enrolled in the programs as of 2011 (Parker, Saenz, & Wong, 2014), nearing universal coverage of the initially uninsured population (Parker et al, 2014; Teruel, Parker, Rubalcava, Arenas, & Flores, 2014). …”

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Adult Children’s Education and Parents’ Functional Limitations in Mexico

2016

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This article asks how adult children’s education influences older parents’ physical health in Mexico, a context where older adults often lack access to institutional resources and rely on kin, primarily children, as a main source of support. Using logistic and negative binomial regression models and data from the first wave of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (N = 9,661), we find that parents whose children all completed high school are less likely to report any functional limitations as well as fewer limitations compared to parents with no children who completed high school. This association remains significant even after accounting for parent and offspring-level characteristics, including parents’ income that accounts for children’s financial transfers to parents. Future research should aim to understand the mechanisms that explain the association between adult children’s education and changes to parents’ health over time.

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Health Insurance and the Aging: Evidence From the Seguro Popular Program in Mexico

Cited by 47 publications

References 29 publications

Welfare effects of health insurance in Mexico: The case of Seguro Popular de Salud

Welfare effects of health insurance in Mexico: The case of Seguro Popular de Salud

Adult children's education and changes to parents' physical health in Mexico

Adult Children’s Education and Parents’ Functional Limitations in Mexico

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