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5. Insured

This person has the right to medical service in:
Read all of the answers and circle the affirmative answers.

1 Social security (IMSS)
2 ISSSTE
3 Pemex, defense or navy
Other institution?
_____Write the name of institution

4 No right to medical services

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5. Access to Social Security or Retirement Pensions

A person has the right to medical services when the company, factory, etc., for which he/she works pays a public or private health institution for the service; also when the person pays the IMSS [Mexican Institute of Social Security], or when the rights to this service are for the family members that the worker designates.

These people can have the right to medical services in institutions such as the IMSS, the ISSSTE [State Workers' Institute of Social Security and Social Services], Mexican Petroleum [Pemex], the Defense Department, or the Navy, among others.

[Depiction of this completed question on the enumeration form, and a related drawing]

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A person can have rights to service in more than one health institution; if this is the case, circle the codes of the affirmative responses.

In asking this question, keep in mind the following:

When the person pays the IMSS for the right to medical services (voluntary or optional insurance), circle code 1.

If any of the people in the home has the right to medical services in the USA or in any other country, circle code 5.

When the transactions are underway for a person to receive medical attention, consider them as already having this right, and circle the corresponding code.

If the informant reports that the person is a post-secondary student and has the right to medical service, circle the code for the option that they report.

If the person is right holder of some state social security institution, such as ISSSET, ISSSEMyM [Institute of Social Security and Social Services for the State of Mexico and Municipalities], ISSSTESON [State of Sonora Worker's Institute of Social Security and Social Services], write the answer under the option other institution.

When the person has the right to medical services in an institution other than those that appear in this question, write the answer in the option, other institution.