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NIGENDA, Gustavo; RUIZ-LARIOS, José Arturo; AGUILAR-MARTINEZ, Matilde Elizabeth  e  BEJARANO-ARIAS, Rosa. Labor regularization of health workers paid with funds from the Mexican System for Social Protection in Health. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2012, vol.54, n.6, pp.616-623. ISSN 0036-3634.

OBJECTIVE: The process of regularization of workers paid by the Social Protection Health System of Mexico is described and analyzed. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Primary and secondary data collected by the external evaluation of the Mexican System for Social Protection in Health in 2009 were used. RESULTS: The regularization clearly improved the labor conditions of workers contracted by the system but a broader systemic implication of regularization does not seem to be necessarily positive. CONCLUSION: It is important to consider the need to guarantee that this type of changes in the contractual conditions of workers benefit all actors, particularly the insured population.

Palavras-chave : Health manpower; working conditions; public policy.