[Composite indicators for primary health care. The case of Mexico]

In 1978 the World Health Organization proposed as a goal the following slogan: "Health for everyone in the 2000 year". Though, to obtain the covering first assistance indicators is crucial for the evaluation work and for the analysis of the health strategies. In 1981 the World Health Organization proposed 13 indicators, based on them, this work builds up three new indicators. These indicators allow to have a simple and reliable description of the covering that each one of the federal entities of the Mexican Republic keep. The 1985 WHO indicator, PROM, and our mixed indicator, Institutional Medical Assistance Request, are highly correlated. The Mixed indicators of Health Covering allow the making of global covering evaluations. Also allows the studding of all the covering relations and correlations reached with other indicators or variables.