Comprehensive Overview of Mexican Social Security Institutions

IMSS - Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Art. 123 - Right to social security, popular establishment, disability insurance, life, involuntary unemployment, and accidents.

Key Institutions

1. Board of Health

2. Department of Health

- Revolution

3. Fusion-2

- With attendance secretary 1943 - Secretary of Security Assistance

4. Social Security

- Camacho - to guarantee the human right to health and the creation of the IMSS

• Obligatory: Workers' social cooperatives funded by contributions from employers and workers.
• Voluntary: Agreement with the Institute, industry workers, independent contractors, and domestic workers.

5. Benefits

• Sickness and maternity benefits in kind and money, medical attention.
• Occupational risk: medical benefits, pension.
• Disability and death pension when the cause is not work-related.
• Retirement: old age pension, medical.
• Nurseries: benefits to health.

ISSTE - Institute of Security and Social Services for State Employees
Art. 123 Paragraph B - 1959.
Decentralized agency - labor input by 15na.
By: pension, medical, or maternity services.
It is underpinned by the constitutional right to protection of health in public services.

Preventive Medicine

• Maternity and disease risk.
• Retirement, disability, housing, and lease.

SAM - Mexican Food System.
Nace by: much industry and little agriculture.
Support to agriculture: credits, machinery.
Importance of employment.

Key Documents

• Food sovereignty.
• Restructure marketing system.
• Consumer-targeted campaigns.

Fat-food sufficiency, rural employment, improving income distribution, and promoting economic growth.

Coplamar: Coordination of the national depressed areas and marginal groups in the presidency of the republic.

Background

• 1935 - Coordinated public health services in states.
• 1974 - Program for social solidarity and community cooperation.
• 1979 - Coplamar IMSS, fund accounting administration - health services to search for resources.
• IMMS - 1990 - New guarantee of social solidarity (the right of every individual to protection of health).

Pronalen - National Food Program.

Objective

To improve nutritional levels of families with low incomes (40%).

To encourage the consumption of tortillas, beans, and pasta.

CONASUPO - National Basic Commission (It helps to PRONAL).