Iniciativa mesoamericana de la salud

After carrying out a health evaluation of the poorest population groups, each government in the Mesoamerican region committed itself to specific targets and indicators for malnutrition, vaccination, and maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. For Mesoamerica as a whole, the initiative’s goals are as follows:

• Reduce by 15 percent infant mortality among the poorest 20 percent of the region’s population.
• Provide health services to 260,000 poor children to reduce chronic malnutrition.
• Reduce by 15 percentage points the rate of anemia among children under two years in seven of the eight countries in the region (in Chiapas, 10%).
• Ensure that 90 percent of children under two years among the poorest 20 percent of the population complete their vaccination schedules.
• Increase by 50 percent births attended by skilled personnel, in order to reduce deaths of mothers and newborns.