[Teaching of health economics in Mexico: 5-year experience]

Teaching strategies for a new specialty constitute a challenge to ensure the rapid development of human resources for the purpose of supporting these activities. In the health economics field a plan was applied for coping with the needs of teaching activities in the field. The activities developed in the plan are presented in this paper, included under the following items: A. Theoretical organization of the contents of the subject. B. Organization of contents according to the students' needs. C. Support given to teachers. D. The whole strategy also includes: academic interchange, technical advisory services, dissemination of results through meetings, publications and academic organizations. E. Median term agenda: Human resources; Financial resources; Teaching strategies; Interaction between health services and decision makers; and Collaborative network.