Impacto de las remesas en el gasto regional de salud en México 2000, 2005 y 2010

Health is an issue relevant to the conditions and standard of living of households, which is determined by factors such as the availability of services, government support networks, regional development, among other adds. The study of the impact of foreign resources in this regard has not been much addressed. But the meager foreign and national studies show the marginal to positive effect of remittances on health spending. In the case of Mexico regional studies on the subject have not been made, it is therefore the aim of this study is to analyze the impact of remittances on consumption of Health at national and regional level (Conapo, 2004) based on the Home National Survey of Income and Expenditure (enigh's) 2000, 2005 and 2010 using Engel curves. It was found that the expenditure of Health behave like a basic product at the national level and in most regions except the North 2000 y 2010, Central 2010 and South-southeast 2000. Health consumption is primarily present in the more marginal regions as the Traditional and South-southeast ranking first or second in consumption level. A general decrease of consumption of Health in 2000 to 2005 and later retrieval from 2005 to 2010 is observed.