Support to the Social Protection System in Health

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The objectives of the Social Protection System in Health Project for Mexico are to: (i) initially preserve and later expand the Popular Health Insurance's coverage of people without contributory social security; and (ii) strengthen the capacity of the commission and state health systems to effectively administer the entitlements of the popular health insurance. There are two components to the project, the first component being popular health insurance's coverage of people without contributory social security. This component will finance eligible federal, social contributions to the premium of the popular health Insurance to initially preserve and later expand the popular health insurance's coverage of people without contributory social security. Across the globe, Bank projects have started to co-finance insurance and in particular health insurance premiums. The project will be logical extensions of this practice insofar that it will finance the insurance premium of the developing worlds largest (both in terms of population and benefits) and highly scrutinized health insurance for people without contributory social security. Finally, the second component is the capacity of the commission and of state health systems to administer the popular health insurance entitlements. This component will finance technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of the commission and state health systems to effectively administer the entitlements of the popular health insurance, including technical assistance for enhanced performance management and support to states in preparing and carrying out reforms in the administration of the popular health insurance, improved knowledge of eligible beneficiaries about entitlements, strengthened health risk management, and effective project coordination and management.