[Distribution of educational and health services]

This paper presents some ideas on the relation between personal income and the quantity and quality of education and health. It is suggested that the high degree of inequality in income in Mexico could be attributed to ancestral differences in educative and health care opportunities. In the short run, the desirable decrease in educative and health inequities will not modify the income concentration rates. However it is a powerful tool in the struggle against poverty and a necessary condition for the gradual reduction of inequities in the long run.