the coverage of seguro popular which provides basic medical health and preventive services and protection to people without health coverage see chapter on addressing the health challenges has also widened to provide universal coverage in these programmes have led to a reduction of extreme poverty while at the same time supporting access of the poor to education and health services moreover they have contributed to a reduction of longstanding wide regional disparities in access to basic services estimates from the consejo nacional de evaluacion de la polftica de desarrollo social coneval indicate that in of the total population equivalent to million individuals were in patrimony poverty conditions ie they did not have sufficient income to satisfy their food health education housing clothing and public transportation needs figure that count reached its highest point in after the tequila crisis when of the population was classified as poor