title: The Medical Insurance for a New Generation: a viable answer for the health needs of Mexican children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the Medical Insurance for a New Generation (SMNG) as key public policy aimed at improving health care services for children under the age of five years in Mexico.
  
  
  METHODS
  This paper analyzes interrelated aspects of public policies to provide health care to Mexican children: a) the demographic and health status of children, with emphasis on the wide disparities between children of varying demographics; b) the relationship of the main functions of a health care system: financing, equity, access and quality, with the provision of health care for children; c) the architecture of the Medical Insurance for a New Generation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SMNG is a program that can be instrumental in lowering infant mortality and alleviating the burden of families to care for sick children by improving access, quality of care and equity.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, DF, México.
authors.forename: Onofre
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Hernández
authors.forename: Salomón
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chertorivski-Woldenberg
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cortés-Gallo
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pérez-Cuevas
mesh_terms: D002662:Child Health Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008800:Mexico; D011640:Public Policy; D019472:Universal Health Insurance