Public Art & Health

The art collection of Mexico’s social security institute

Research record PAH-064 · Finding, limitations, sources and publication relationships.

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· 2025 · Mexico

Findings, methods and sources

PracticePolicy / contextContext / synthesis

Finding. Describes IMSS’s collection of murals, sculptures and architectural works across its facilities as an expression of institutional identity and of the values of Latin American social medicine.

Limitation. Historical and documentary; no health outcomes are measured.

Pacheco-Zavala MDP, Hernández-Ordóñez R, Smolinski-Kurek RL. Murales, medicina y memoria: el patrimonio cultural del IMSS como generador de identidad institucional. Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc. 2025;63(5):e6710.

Methods and verification

Verification level: Abstract or primary source checked

Design
Documentary and reflective review
Sample / scope
Not applicable
Setting
IMSS medical, administrative and social facilities
Art form
Art collections

Abstract or primary source checked, 28 September 2026 · Verification source

Editorial review: 2026-09-28 · Verification policy

Publications and overlap

No confirmed shared-publication match is recorded for this entry in Edition 4.11. Source-by-source and participant-level reconciliation is incomplete; this does not establish an independent study.

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Public Art & Health. The art collection of Mexico’s social security institute. Research record PAH-064. Edition 4.11, 29 September 2026. https://www.publicart.health/research/pah-064

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