Entrenched poor health and health inequity are important public health problems. Conventionally, solutions to such problems originate from the health care sector, a conception reinforced by the dominant biomedical imagination of health. By contrast, attention to the social determinants of health has recently been given new force in the fight against health inequity. The health care sector is a ...

What is your present role? What do you do in that role? I am currently a Collaborative Practice Leader at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto. In this role, I provide leadership support to Advanced Practice Clinical Educators across the organization, specifically with integrating scholarship into their practice. As a practice leader, I support practice, education, evidence-based care, and pro...

INTRODUCTION Trained human resources are fundamental for well-functioning health systems, and the lack of health workers undermines public sector capacity to meet population health needs. While external brain drain from low and middle-income countries is well described, there is little understanding of the degree of internal brain drain, and how increases in health sector funding through global...

BACKGROUND The role of the private health sector in developing countries remains a much-debated and contentious issue. Critics argue that the high prices charged in the private sector limits the use of health care among the poorest, consequently reducing access and equity in the use of health care. Supporters argue that increased private sector participation might improve access and equity by b...

In this study, the core objective was to find relationship of transaction leadership and trust in leader, organizational climate empowerment. This research tested direct leader outcome well-being also as a mediator between well-being. There sample 348 (Krejcie & Morgan, 1970) employees cement sector Pakistan includes well-known organizations. Structural Equation model 16 use analyze obtaine...

Evidence that the private health sector is a key player in delivering health services and impacting health outcomes, including those related to HIV/AIDS, underscores the need to optimize the role of the private health sector to scale up national HIV responses in lower-income countries. This article reviews findings on the types of HIV/AIDS services provided by the private health sector in devel...