Aim:

To share with the medical community the development of palliative care in an Spanish speaking country.

Method:

Documental research and direct interview to physicians actively involved in the development of palliative care in Mexico.

Results:

Pain clinics in were born in early seventies and the palliative care movement during the eighties. It is recently that the legislation in this nation favors palliative care.

Conclusions:

Mexico is now among those countries with a legislation that includes palliative care. The laws and legislation of that country define and guide those health care providers that interact with palliative patients, and also stablish palliative care as a health right for its habitants.

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