ALAMES

(Latin American association of social medicine)

AFORES

Asociaciones de Fondos para el Retiro (association of retirement funds)

AIDS

acquired immune deficiency syndrome

AIH

Autorização de Internação Hospitalar (hospital stay authorization)

AMB

Associação Médica Brasileira (Brazilian medical association)

ANSSAL

Administración Nacional del Seguro de Salud (national health insurance administration)

ANSSES

Administración Nacional de Sistema de Seguro de Salud (national administration of the health insurance system)

APs

Administradoras de Prestaciones (service managing organizations - equivalent to American managed care organizations)

BCP

basic care package

BEPS

budgetable expenditure for the public sector

CEPAL

Comisión Económica para América Latina (see also ECLAC)

CEPAL

Comissão Econômica para a América Latina (see also ECLAC)

CEPED

Centro de Estudios sobre Población, Empleo y Desarrollo (centre for studies on population, employment, and development)

CESS

Centro de Estudios Sanitarios y Sociales (CESS, social and health study centre [centre for health and social studies])

CGT

Confederación General del Trabajo (general labour confederation)

CFM

Conselho Federal de Medicina (federal council of medicine)

CNS

Conferência Nacional de Saúde (national health conference)

CONASEMS

Conselho Nacional de Secretários Municipais de Saúde (national council of municipal health secretariats)

CONASS

Conselho Nacional de Secretários Estaduais de Saúde (national council of state health secretariats)

COPLAMAR

Coordinación General del Plan Nacional de Zonas Deprimadas y Grupos Marginados (national program for depressed areas and marginal groups)

CTM

Central de Trabajadores de México (Mexican workers central organization)

CUSS

Contribución Unica de Seguridad Social (unified social security contribution)

DDF

Departamento del Distrito Federal (administration of the Federal District of Mexico City)

DIF

Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (national system for the integrated development of the family)

DGI

Dirección General Impositiva (general directorate of taxes)

DORL

disability, old age, retirement, and life insurance

DRGs

diagnostic related groups

EAP

economically active population

ECLAC

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

FBH

Federação Brasileira de Hospitais (Brazilian federation of hospitals)

FROS

Fondo de Reconversión de Obras sociales (obras sociales reconversion fund)

FSR

Fondo Solidario de Redistribución (common redistribution fund)

FIOCRUZ

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Oswaldo Cruz foundation)

FUNSALUD

Fundación Mexicana para la Salud (Mexican foundation for health)

GDP

gross domestic product

GNP

gross national product

HMOs

health maintenance organizations

HSS

health services system

IAPs

Institutos de Aposentadorias e Pensões (retirement and pension institutes)

IBRD

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

IDB

Inter-American Development Bank

IMPS

integrated microcomputer processing system

IMSS

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Mexican institute for social security)

COPLAMAR

Coordinación General del Plan Nacional de Zonas Deprimadas y Grupos Marginados (general coordination for the national program for depressed areas and marginal groups), now known as IMSS-Solidaridad

IMSS-Solidaridad

IMSS solidarity

INAMPS

Instituto Nacional de Assistência Médica da Previdência Social (national institute of medical care and social security)

INDEC

Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (national institute of statistics and censuses

INOS

Instituto Nacional de Obras sociales (national institute of Obras sociales)

INPS

Instituto Nacional de Previdência Social (national institute of social security)

INSSJYP

Instituto Nacional de Seguridad Social para Jubilados y Pensionados (national social security institute for retirees and pensioners)

ISFAM

Instituto de Seguridad para las Fuerzas Armadas Mexicanas (social security institute for the Mexican armed forces)

ISSSTE

Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (social security institute for civil servants)

LDO

Lei de Diretrizes Orçamentárias (budget directives law)

LOS

Lei Orgânica da Saúde (Organic Law of Health)

LOAS

Lei Orgânica da Assistência Social (social assistance organization law)

MS

Ministério da Saúde (ministry of health)

MSAS

Ministerio de Salud y Acción Social de la Nación (ministry of health and social action)

MTSS

Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social de la Nación (ministry of labour and social security)

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement

NGOs

nongovernmental organizations

NOB

Norma Operacional Básica (basic operational norm)

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OFR

overall fertility rate

OMS

Organización Mundial de la Salud (see also WHO)

OPS

Organización Panamericana de la Salud (see also PAHO)

OSS

Orçamento da Seguridade Social (social welfare budget)

PAHO

Pan American Health Organization

PAMI

Programa de Atención Médica Integral (comprehensive health care program)

PARSOS

Programa de Apoyo a la Reforma del Sistema de Obras sociales (program in support of reform of the Obras sociales system)

PASSPA

Programa de Apoyo a los Servicios de Salud para la Población no Asegurada (support program for the health care services for the uninsured)

PEMEX

Mexican national oil company

PMO

Programa Médico Obligatorio (basic services package)

PNs

providers networks

PND

Plan Nacional de Desarrollo (national development plan)

PNUD

Programa da Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (see also UNDP)

PRD

Partido de la Revolución Democrática (democratic revolution party)

PRI

Partido Revolucionario Institucional (institutional revolutionary party)

PRODEMAN

Programa Interuniversitário de Pesquisa de Demandas Sociais (inter-university program of surveys on social demands)

PROMIN

Programa Materno Infantil (maternal and child health program)

PRONASOL

Programa Nacional de Solidaridad (national solidarity program)

PRSS

Programa de Reforma del Sector Salud 1995-2000 (health care sector reform program, 1995-2000)

SAR

Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro (savings for retirement system)

SAS

statistical analysis system

SDE

social development expenditure

SDN

Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (department of national defense)

SECMAR

Secretaría de Marina (navy department)

SHCP

Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (department of inland revenue)

SINPAS

Sistema Nacional de Previdência e Assistência Social (national system of social security and social assistance)

SNS

Sistema Nacional de Salud (Mexican national health system)

SPSS

Statistical Package for Social Sciences

SS

Secretaría de Salud (department of health)

SSA

Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia (department of health)

SSS

Superintendencia de Seguros de Salud (superintendence of health insurance)

SUDS

Sistema Unificado e Descentralizado de Saúde (unified and decentralized health systems)

SUS

Sistema Único de Saúde (unified health system)

SUSS

Sistema Único de Seguridad Social (unified social security system)

STDs

sexually transmitted diseases

UAM-X

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Xochimilco (autonomous university of Mexico - Xochimilco)

UCAs

Unidades de Cobertura Ambulatorial (ambulatory care units)

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNFPA

United Nations Fund for Population Activities

UNICEF

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

UTEs

Uniones Transitorias de Empresas (temporary associations of enterprises)

WHO

World Health Organization