Table 2 Impact of the Seguro Popular by broad category of outcomes and specific outcomes
From: A systematic review of the literature on the impact of the Seguro Popular
Outcomes broad categories | Outcomes subcategories | Statistically significant effect | Not statistically significant effect | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Utilization | 30 | General healthcare utilization | 17 | 6 | 11 |
Infant healthcare utilization | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
Perinatal care | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||
Screening | 14 | Hypertension screening | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Diabetes screening | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||
Gynaecological screening | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||
Prostate cancer screening | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Treatment | 19 | Hypertension treatment | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Diabetes treatment | 10 | 3 | 7 | ||
General healthcare treatment | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Testing/monitoring | 5 | Diabetes follow-up test | 5 | 4 | 1 |
Morbidity/mortality | 4 | Newborn mortality | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Infant mortality | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Child development | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Financial protection | 65 | Out-of-pocket expenses | 46 | 27 | 19 |
Impoverishing spending | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Catastrophic health expenses | 18 | 8 | 10 | ||
Total | 137 | 137 | 66 | 71 | |