Mexico does not have a LTC system in place and, therefore, there is no data available on specific LTC workforce categories. As stated in part 2, there are still low numbers of specialist doctors, most are neurologists, psychiatrist or geriatrician who see/treat individuals with any illness/disease, not exclusively dementia. In terms of medical doctors, in the country, it was estimated that there were a total of 147,910 specialist physicians in Mexico, for a total population of 123.5 million in the year 2017 (Heinze-Martin et al., 2018), and 36,184 general practitioners in 2015 or 29 per 100,000 population (DGIS, 2017). This represents a rate of 119 specialist physicians per 100 000 population. Of this total, 69% had specialty certification and showed a highly unequal distribution among the country with 54% of all specialists concentrated in Mexico City and in the States of Mexico, Jalisco, and Nuevo León. On average, there were 1.7 male specialists per female specialist physician. Among specialities relevant to all forms of Dementia, there were 422 Geriatricians, 1,345 Neurologists (adult and paediatric), 2992 Cardiologists (adult and paediatric) and 4,429 Psychiatrists in the whole country in 2017. It was estimated that there were 3.25 Geriatricians per 100,000 individuals 60 years and older, 3.4 Psychiatrists and 2.2 Cardiologists per 100,000 individuals (Heinze-Martin et al., 2018).

References:

DGIS. (2017). Recursos en salud.

Heinze-Martin, G., Olmedo-Canchola, V. H., Bazán-Miranda, G., Bernard-Fuentes, N. A., & Guízar-Sánchez, D. P. (2018). Medical specialists in Mexico. Gaceta Medica de Mexico, 154(3), 342–351. https://doi.org/10.24875/GMM.18003770