Héctor García Hernández

Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in older Mexican people based on their social security status

Guillermo Salinas‐Escudero, Carmen García‐Peña, Héctor García Hernández

Out-of-pocket health expenditures (OOPEs) represent a financial strain that can increase the risk of impoverishment, especially in older people. Universal health coverage is the primary strategy to ensure financial protection. The Mexican health system is based on social security. Therefore, the objective …

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Citizens' Jury as a Strategy to Increase Social Participation Among Older People

Nancy Lysvet Flores Castillo, Carmen García‐Peña, Sara Torres‐Castro, Héctor García Hernández

INTRODUCTION: Social participation is essential for healthy ageing. Older people must engage in social, political and cultural activities. Institutions must create spaces that enable their involvement. Citizens' jury (CJ) is a strategy that promotes participation by involving citizens in deliberative processes. We …

Health inequities in functional limitation among Mexican older adults: An intersectional approach

Héctor García Hernández, Guillermo Salinas‐Escudero, Hortensia Reyes‐Morales, María Fernanda Carrillo-Vega

Functional limitation represents a major health concern among older adults, with its incidence increased based on personal characteristics such as being a woman, having minor levels of education, and lower socioeconomic status, leading to health inequities. Addressing these inequities requires comprehensive frameworks …

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Comparative analysis of the Mexican and Colombian health system

Héctor García Hernández, David Esquer Bojorquez

Introduction: The model, proposed by Federico Tobar, for the comparison between health systems mentions the review of three different dimensions: health policies, epidemiological situation, and health system, to delve into similarities and differences that exist between systems from several countries. Proposal: The …

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Association between the changes in socialsecurity continuity condition and mortality: MHAS 2001-2018 analysis

Héctor García Hernández, Rosa Estela García-Chanes, Mario Ulises Pérez‐Zepeda, Carmen García‐Peña

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the association of changes in social security (SS) continuity and mortality, using the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) in people aged 60 years and more. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective cohort. We analyzed the SS continuity condition -classified as …

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Estimation of vaccination coverage and associated factors in older Mexican adults

Héctor García Hernández, Judith Zárate-Ramírez, Ashuin Kammar‐García, Carmen García‐Peña

National vaccination programmes recommend the influenza vaccine for older adults, but this population group has the greatest morbidity and mortality from other preventable vaccine diseases. The aim of this article is to estimate the vaccine coverage in adults aged 65 years and …

Amenable mortality analysis in Mexico during the period 1998-2019

Héctor García Hernández, Claudio Alberto Dávila-Cervantes

Background: The Mexican health system divides the population into people with and without social security. This organization generated health differences between both groups. Amenable mortality is an impact that if is studied between groups and territories it indirectly measures health inequities. Objective. …

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Violencia en la formación médica

Héctor García Hernández, Guadalupe Alvear Galindo

The purpose of this work is to provide elements to understand, in a broad way, the violence within medical training, since most of the work on the subject focuses on its consequences: for example, the physical and psychological conditions of violent acts …

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Mandibular Brown Tumor as Atypical Presentation of Primary Hyperparathyroidism: two Case Reports And Literature Review

Ana Belén Noriega-Jalil, Yelitza Astrid Valverde-García, Jorge García-Barajas, Héctor García Hernández et autres

Objective: We report 2 cases of patients who developed solitary, aggressive mandibular tumors. The tumors were surgically removed due to suspected malignancy, and their histopathologic diagnoses were central giant cell granuloma and giant cell bone tumor in patients with undiagnosed primary hyperparathyroidism …

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