There are several studies that place Mexico as first place or as one of the main consumers of sugary drinks, but we are also one of the countries in which bottled water is consumed, which is not the result but of the huge lag that is availablein the guarantee of the right of access to quality water and in safety conditions.
Through the Intercensal Survey (2015), INEGI estimates that only 78.4% of the country's homes have pursed water inside;in addition to 5.10% that has water only due to hauling, that is, one in four homes lacks water (with around 40 million inhabitants);The above, without considering the poor quality and low frequency with which it reaches millions of homes.
The National Nutrition and Health Survey (Ensenut, 2012) estimates that 70% of the population lives with overweight or obesity, but also the intercensal survey estimates that at least 13% of households with children under 18, some of them areHe had to bed hungry or ate only once a day and that in 14.2% a minor ate less than he had to eat.As a whole, the data confirms that we lack an adequate policy to guarantee the rights to food and food security.
The National Urban Public Security Survey (Ensu) estimates that, in March 2016, 53% of the population of Mexican cities stopped walking at night around their homes, while 62% stopped allowing girls, boys and boysteenagers left their homes.
With these data the forced question is: how to overcome sedentary lifestyle, when there are neither sufficient safety conditions or infrastructure for the daily practice of physical activities?
It is urgent to build a truly integral strategy and with the ability to generate simultaneous interventions, in order to generate the conditions for the population to take care of their personal health, but also contribute to the construction of a new public health culture, based on adequate food, sufficient consumption of water, as well as the daily practice of physical activity to improve their living conditions.
The conviction and social sense of Secretary Narro, implicit in his statement that diabetes is defeatable is highlighted.Hopefully your ability to dialogue and your knowledge, both in the health and social and educational sector, allow the rest of the social cabinet to understand the implications of not intervening and the urgency of doing much more and faster to overcome the lag we have.
The intercensal survey estimates that 20.6 million Mexicans lack affiliation to health services and is where we must start.To build a universal social security system that allows raising the quality and standards of services and transiting once and for all to a system that, in addition to improving the health of Mexicans, serves as a foundation for a new state of social welfare.
It should be understood: universal health coverage is a necessary, but not sufficient condition, because without increasing income, without reducing poverty and, in general, without integrally guaranteeing social rights, diabetes and other poverty diseases, hardlyThey will be controlled and, eventually, defeated.
