This research studies budget allocated to health programs in Mexico during 2010-2015. Mainly, it studies Federal Budget Number 12 (Ministry of Health), Number 50 (Ministry of Social Securit/IMSS) and Number 51 (ISSSTE). Specifically, the ammount of money assigned to programs on those budgets whose main purpose is to look after public health in Mexicans. The main argument of the paper is that budget design on health issues does not respond to epidemiological needs --prevention of cronic degenerative diseases-- and follows an inertial pattern of allocation that may prove dangerous for the sustainability of the mexican health system in the future. The reserach has two methodological basis: the first one, the identification of inertia or incrementalism on health budgets. This is observed through new programs on health policy over the last five years and budget allocated. The second one, public policy analysis as a process of problem solution and causal hypothesis (Aguilar 2010:32). The purpose of this second approach is to observe the causal relation between the main epidemiological problems in Mexico and the distribution of the health budget during 2010-2015.
Keywords:
Public health, budget inertia, incrementalism, public policy, prevention, budget, budget programs, Mexico
Tapia, G., & Hernández, J. (2017). Budget inertia and cronic degenerative diseases in Mexico: a dangerous combo. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 3(1), 103–121. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2017.46354
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