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  • Title: General Law on Health, 26 December 1983.
    Author: Mexico.
    Journal: Annu Rev Popul Law; 1987; 14():550-4. PubMed ID: 12346764.
    Abstract:
    This document summarizes provisions of Mexico's 1984 General Law on Health. The law sets forth the objectives of the right to health protection as well as the objectives of the National Health System. Basic health services are defined as: 1) health education and the promotion of sanitation; 2) prevention and control of priority communicable diseases, the most frequent noncommunicable diseases, and accidents; 3) medical care; 4) maternal and child care; 5) family planning; 6) mental health; 7) the prevention and control of oral diseases; 8) the availability of medicaments and other essential supplies; 9) promotion of improved nutrition; and 10) social welfare for at-risk groups. The provisions in chapter 5 prioritize and define maternal and child care and call for protection of minors, activities to support the family and contribute to maternal and child health, appropriate standards of school hygiene, and health services for schoolchildren. Chapter 6 prioritizes delivery of family planning (FP) services to minors and adolescents. This chapter penalizes anyone performing sexual sterilization against a patient's will or unduly influencing a person to undergo sterilization. FP services are to include: 1) sex education, 2) care and surveillance of FP acceptors, 3) advisory functions, 4) research activities, 5) logistical and storage services, and 6) data collection. Additional chapters discuss the objectives of health education and provide that tissues may be removed from pregnant women for therapeutic purposes if the recipient is in danger of death and the removal poses no risk to the woman or the conceptus.
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