Editing Oaxaca (section)

==Health==
Ninety five percent of Oaxaca's population receives health care from one or more government programs.<ref name="infraes"/> Government health services used include [[Mexican Social Security Institute|IMSS]]; Seguridad Social, [[ISSSTE]] and that related to [[PEMEX]].(infraes) The state sponsors the Servicios de Salud de Oaxaca (SSO) which primarily works to provide antibiotics and other medicines to [[public dispensaries]]. It is meant to supplement other federal and state services such as IMSS.<ref name="servicios">{{cite web |url=http://www.salud-oaxaca.gob.mx/ |title=Servicios de Salud de Oaxaca |date=August 23, 2010 |publisher=Government of Oaxaca |location=Oaxaca |language=es |trans-title=Health Services in Oaxaca |access-date=September 9, 2010}}</ref> There are 1,020 primary care medical facilities and 28 hospitals in the state, 3,240,024 people are registered in one or more government programs and are attended by 3,337 doctors, 5,400 paramedics and 6,887 other health providers.<ref name="infraes"/> Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Oaxaca was constructed by the federal government as the first "level three" or high level specialty hospital in the state. It was opened in 2006 and is located in San Bartolo Coyotepec.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hraeoaxaca.salud.gob.mx/historia.html |title=Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Oaxaca |publisher=Government of Mexico |access-date=September 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007121118/http://www.hraeoaxaca.salud.gob.mx/historia.html |archive-date=October 7, 2010}}</ref>

One particular health problem the state has is outbreaks of [[dengue fever]] during the rainy season, which occurs from June to October. Some of these cases are [[Viral hemorrhagic fever|hemorrhagic]]. The problem is more severe in the tropical lowlands of the state, near the ocean.<ref name="encabeza">{{cite news |title=Encabeza Oaxaca los contagios por dengue en el País |author=Virgilio Sánchez |author2=Sergio Flores |author3=Jesús Guerrero |author4=Lev García |newspaper=El Norte |location=Monterrey, Mexico |date=June 19, 2006 |page=23 |language=es |trans-title=Oaxaca has the most people infected with dengue fever in the country}}</ref>

Despite the health services that exist, there are serious problems and deficiencies. As of 1997, life expectancy in the state was 71.5 years, 9 years higher than in 1990. The death rate has decreased from 5.79 deaths per thousand to 5.14.<ref name="infraes"/> While much of Mexico's health care system struggles to meet needs, the system in Oaxaca, one of the country's poorest states, has it particularly bad. The relatively prosperous state of [[Nuevo León]] has 3,207 hospital beds, while Oaxaca has only 1,760, despite the fact that the two states have about the same population. There is about the same ratio of doctors between the two states.<ref name="prognostican">{{cite news |title=Pronostican desigualdades en sector salud |author=Margarita Vega |newspaper=El Norte |location=Monterrey, Mexico |date=September 22, 2000 |page=13 |language=es |trans-title=Forecasting health sector inequalities}}</ref> Forty four percent of pregnant women receive pre-natal care from people who are not medically qualified. 70 women each year die from complications from pregnancy and childbirth, and most of these are avoidable, due to bleeding and [[eclampsia]]. For every 100,000 live births in Oaxaca, there are 95.1 maternal deaths, over the national average of 63.3, putting the state in the top five.<ref name="alarma">{{Cite news |title=Alarma en Oaxaca muerte materna |author=Martha Izquierdo |newspaper=El Norte |location=Monterrey, Mexico |date=November 12, 2006 |page=22 |language=es |trans-title=Alarm in Oaxaca over maternal deaths}}</ref>

The state lacks sufficient numbers of health care workers and lacks specialized hospital and other facilities. Other problems include obsolete medical equipment, lack of medicines. Many of these problems have persisted for decades.<ref name="enfrenta">{{cite news |title=Enfrenta crisis sector salud en Oaxaca |author=Ivan Rendon |newspaper=Reforma |location=Mexico City |date=November 15, 2000 |page=18 |language=es |trans-title=Health sector confronting crisis in Oaxaca}}</ref> Health care providers offer an average of 20,000 consults each day, covering a population of 800,000 people.<ref name="sector">{{Cite news |title=Y ahora para sector Salud en Oaxaca |author=Fernando Paniagua |author2=Virgilio Sánchez |newspaper=El Norte |location=Monterrey, Mexico |date=August 17, 2006 |page=14 |language=es |trans-title=And now the health sector in Oaxaca}}</ref><ref name="faltan">{{cite news |title=Faltan medicamentos en Oaxaca |author=Martha Izquierdo |newspaper=Reforma |location=Mexico City |date=March 6, 2007 |page=16 |language=es |trans-title=Lacking medicines in Oaxaca}}</ref> In 2000, there was only one doctor for every 180 people.<ref name="enfrenta"/>

In 2006, health care workers held a work stoppage and march, demanding improvements in the health care system along with the ouster of Governor [[Ulises Ruiz Ortiz]]. Most of the participating strikers were from the hospital and emergency room sectors, from 15 hospitals and 650 health centers in the state.<ref name="sector"/>

In 2022, amidst soaring rates of [[obesity]] and [[Type 2 diabetes|diabetes]], Oaxaca enacted a ban on sugary drinks, including notably [[Coca-Cola]], but it was poorly enforced.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/04/sugar-rush-how-mexico-addiction-to-fizzy-drinks-fuelled-its-health-crisis-acc|last=Busby|first=Mattha|title=Sugar rush: how Mexico's addiction to fizzy drinks fuelled its health crisis|date=4 November 2022|work=The Guardian}}</ref>