State responsibility in health rights protection

Abstract

The right to health in Mexico is a human right enshrined and recognized in the Political Constitution which aims to ensure and guarantee the health of Mexicans, its scope ranges from medical care to the distribution of medications and therapies through the management of the state in terms of provision of medical services in accordance with the public health regulatory framework. This text addresses the importance of health as a human right and how the state is obliged to provide an equitable and accessible health system for all Mexicans and especially for women, children and people belonging to vulnerable groups such as migrants, indigenous people or people with disabilities since these groups are the most vulnerable and have the most structural difficulty in accessing health care and consequently their right to health is guaranteed.