Strengthening health workforce capacity is vital to building resilient systems that not only address the evolving needs but also absorb shocks during emergencies. Across LAC‑7 countries, availability of physicians, general medical practitioners, nurses, and midwives improved over last two decades. But most countries continued lag OECD average in terms worker availability. In 2020, all experienc...

pierre-gerlier forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. in this commentary, i develop an additional argument in support of forest et al view. forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. translation of externally generated i...

of external supervision of this field. Policy debates, for the most part, swirl not around whether oversight should exist but, instead, around the way it should be structured. However, the present regulatory structure is neither uniform nor consistent. A broad range of regulatory bodies and programs apply in different ways to various aspects of the industry. Health care regulations are develope...

Most people know the fabled story of elephant and “six blind men”, with each them separately examining a different portion mysterious object before drawing conclusion without awareness whole picture—which could have been gleaned by sharing information their neighbours (Figure 1) [...]