Global south´s health Denmark? Some keys from the health labor market and its care in Mexico

Abstract

The analysis of the health and care labor market is a tension between professional fields that translates into unequal segments in health and care services. This work addresses the Mexican case based on the National Occupation and Employment Survey from the theoretical perspective of the segmentation of labor markets. For the analysis, a statistical approach was used from Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Hierarchical Classification Analysis by the Ward Method. The results found were five segments within this service sector in which their performance in the labor market is configured in different ways by different factors and actors, including public policy as a transversal axis.  Among the factors, we find: the disciplinary field of the profession, type of economic unit, its position within the unit and income; These make up a heterogeneous labor insertion network for groups of health professionals: medicine, nursing, dentistry, nutrition, physical health and sports, and psychology. The sector with the best performance was the public sector, which offers better quality jobs, followed by the private sector, dominated mainly by lower quality jobs, and, on the other hand, self-employment and informality, the latter two closer to precariousness.