Factors bearing on the implementation of social innovation to attend the problem of diabetes and obesity in Mexico

Abstract

This study addresses the issue of how social innovation could be resumed to address the public health problems related to obesity and diabetes in Mexico; so it is essential from the identification of factors that influence the success or failure of the implementation of social innovation in a given context. Starting from research conducted in 2008 on social innovation in Latin America, was generated an instrument by a qualitative investigation 21 people between specialists (doctors, nutritionists, nurses), patients (patients with obesity and / or diabetes) , government officials and academics, using a convenience sampling; finding that prevails the impact of exogenous factors, specifically the networks facilitator and incentives factors. This demarcates a starting point for a future proposal for a Model of Social Innovation bearing on meeting the aforementioned health problems.