International insurance plans for foreigners in Mexico
It is advisable to have international health insurance while traveling or living as an expatriate. Having an international health plan gives a person, family or group a variety of choices when it comes...
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Travel and expat medical insurance in Mexico
Insurance can seem quite complicated. What is best for you and why? If you're spending time in Mexico, can you take your medical policy with you? Or should you purchase travel insurance? Are there othe...
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Mexico faces an uphill fight against malnutrition
More than 190 countries, including Mexico, have now signed up to the UN Millennium Development Goals, originally agreed in the year 2000.
There are eight key goals (see table) and Mexico is well on...
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Influenza A H1 N1 in Mexico: What can you do to minimize the risk?
Swine flu at Ground Zero (Mexico City): life in a masked city
People are still going about their business as usual, only we're all wearing surgical facemasks. I can't decide if this whole fear campaign is a massive media beat-up or if it has some credence.
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AA: Alcoholic Anonymous meetings In Mexico
You'll find AA throughout Mexico, even in small towns. NA has a sizable presence in the larger towns. Alanon is almost everywhere. OA, SALA and other programs are less likely to be encountered outside major cities. AA is very visible. I have noted where there are meetings in many cases, but like here, they move or change. We urge readers to help us keep this list current.
read moreMexico FAQs: Food and water
What about the water and food? Can I expect to have Moctezuma's Revenge? Qué me pueden decir acerca del agua y la comida en general en México? Puedo enfermarme? Can I drink the ...
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Living healthy in Mexico: Mexican insurance, Mexican health care and Mexico's medical tourism: A Resource page
Hospitals
Hospitals in Mexico range from small town clinics to third level government hospitals with prestigious research departments and cutting edge technology. The same can be said for private hosp...
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A Response To The Documentary Sicko
Hi, Mike.
Sicko
is great but why did you forget Mexico? Uncle Sam wouldn't be giving you trouble on your return stateside, not like going to Cuba. And the M...
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Mexican Health Care for the Baby-Boomer Generation
Many Mexican hospitals have worked to affiliate themselves with top U.S. and Canadian medical centers and have earned stringent international accreditations.
Mexico has long been the number-o...
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Obtaining Mexican Social Security (IMSS) Health Insurance
Expats living in Mexico have other considerations and better economic choices not commonly shared with the short-term traveler.
First, there is no need for evacuation to a home country. Second, beca...
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Medical and Dental Treatment and Coverage in Oaxaca
Our personal experience with emergency treatment over the past ten years has been nothing but positive.
When I first gave up the practice of law in Toronto in favor of early retirement in Oaxac...
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Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams
The oral contraceptive pill, often referred to simply as "the Pill" was officially fifty years old on October 15, 2001. In the words of The Economist: it "was arguably the first lifestyle drug t...
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Mexican folk remedies
If you have something in your eye, take a hair from the tail of a live cat ....
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Good doctor makes house calls
The good doctor really does make house calls.
Juan Barbosa Gallego arrives with a reassuring smile. His personality is perfect for his mission. He is calm, soft-spoken and confident he can produce a c...
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Where angels fear to tread: an interview with Silvia Flores
This morning Nurse Practitioner Silvia Flores Gonzalez is a little tired, having gotten up at 4:00 am to deliver a baby. The young mother knocked on the door of "El Centro de Desarrollo para Mujeres" i...
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Health care in the Guadalajara and Lake Chapala area
Health Care Resources
A partial listing of clinics, hospitals, dental and doctor's offices, and clinical laboratories
Americas Hospital - Avenida Américas #932, Guadalajara ...
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Massage Exchange With A Traditional Maya Massage Therapist
Night fell and it got dark with tropical quickness just as I was dropped off in a real VW bug at the bone-setter/massage man's home. On my way inside I almost stepped on a tarantula that seemed as big ...
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Know The Law In Mexico - IMSS- Instituto Mexicano Del Seguro Social: Part 2
- The main objective of Social Security is to guarantee the right to good health, medical assistance, the protection of the means of subsistence and the necessary social services for the collective and individual well being, as well as the assignment of a pension that complies to the legal requirements that should be guaranteed by the state.
read moreGot flu? Try a sock full of onions
Before the days of modern medicine, people relied on folk remedies. To ward off the flu, for example, you might have to wear a sock full of onions or eat a spoonful of hot chilies on a piece of pumpern...
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Signing up for Mexico's IMSS health coverage
I finally got my IMSS (The Mexican Social Health Insurance) card today. It took about three weeks and visits to fifteen different desks in four different buildings in two different cities. I did it mys...
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My three nights in a Mexican hospital
In recent weeks I've had occasion to reflect once again on the generosity and thoughtfulness of Mexicans. For the very first time in my life - at my ripe old age - I had occasion to go into hospital. And I'll never forget the wonderful generosity and concern of my Mexican neighbors.
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IMSS Insurance Terms & Conditions
1. It shall be excluded from the family insurance: the holder of the family insured, the additional beneficiary or member, if the have:
Any pre-existing disease, such as malign tumors, cronic degenerated diseases, such as delayed complications of mellitus diabetes, disease (gaucher disease), cronic diseases on liver, cronical renal failure, valvular diseases continuance, (arrhythmia, angor, myocardial infaction) cronic obstructive lung disease with respiratory failure, degenerative diseases of central and peripheral nervous system, vascular cerebral disease continuance, peripheral vascular failure, among others.
read moreThe Mexican Medical System
After three days of chest pains I finally broke down and called the office of my cardiologist here in Guadalajara (I had a heart attack a few years ago). I called at 2:00 pm on a Monday and tried with ...
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Medical and safety
What is the level of health care and medicine in Mexico? (¿Cómo es la calidad de tratamiento médico en México?) What about prescripti...
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