Healthcare model and general information on healthcare system (financing, stakeholders, insurance): Mexico has three main types of service providers with varying financing mechanisms, each providing coverage for different segments of the population:

1. The Mexican Institute of Social Security is an employment-based insurance scheme thatprovides coverage for private-sector employees and their families. This component serves the employed population.
2. A private sector composed of service providers and insurers. Private insurance is voluntary, and individuals must pay premiums to the private insurer. Employers may offer private insurance to their employees where premiums and fees are split between the two. Private insurance companies and service providers maintain their own clinics and hospitals.
3. Public assistance services for the uninsured supported by a financial protection scheme. Programs from the government serve citizens not covered by any other healthcare scheme. These programs are financed almost entirely by the federal government.

Cooperation between Mexico and Denmark: In 2016, Denmark and Mexico entered into a strategic health sector cooperation (SSC) with the objective of strengthening primary healthcare, including prevention and treatment, and improving access to effective and safe medicines in Mexico. The cooperation aims to support Mexico’s efforts to strengthen the primary healthcare sector in regards to diabetes, mental health, and maternal health and to strengthen regulatory processes relating to pharmaceuticals at national level through peer-to-peer cooperation between health authorities in both countries. The cooperation also serves as a platform for enhancing engagement of the Danish private sector in providing health sector solutions in the partner country.

The Danish-Mexican health cooperation is led by the Ministry of the Interior and Health of Denmark and Secretariate of Health (SALUD). The Danish embassy in Mexico supports the collaboration. The partners on the Danish side are: The Danish Health Authority, the Danish Medicines Agency, Center for Digital Psychiatry, and MedCom and on the Mexican side; Secretariate of Health (SALUD) and Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris). The cooperation is financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC).