To gather opinions from medical schools regarding the existence of public policies on the health workforce (human resources for health) and whether sufficient public financing and regulatory mechanisms are in place for undergraduate medical education; and to identify areas of opportunity to improve the availability of general practitioners in the Region of the Americas.
To describe the prevalence of recent physical, sexual, and emotional violence against children
0 – 19 years of age in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by age, sex, and perpetrator.
Original letter in Portuguese. No abstract available.
Corrigendum to Distribution of the nursing workforce in the Region of the Americas. The Pan American Journal of Public Health draws readers' attention to an error in the following article, pointed out by the authors: Cassiani SHB, Hoyos MC, Barreto MFC, Sives K, da Silva FAM. Distribución de la fuerza de trabajo en enfermería en la Región de las Américas. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2018;42:e72. https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.72.
Original article in Spanish published 27 December 2018
Original article in Spanish published 18 October 2018
Objective. To ascertain which factors affect out-of-pocket spending on health services provided by the Ministry of Health of Peru and regional governments to the population living in relative poverty between 2010 and 2014.
Original article in Spanish published on 21 September 2018
Objective. To assess, from a technical and political standpoint, the capacity of Bolivia to generate fiscal space for health that allows the country to sustain progress and fulfill the commitment of a public expenditure in health of 6% of gross domestic product.
Original article in Spanish published 2016
Objective. To assess the fiscal space for health in Peru needed to attain the target of raising public spending in health to 6% of gross domestic product, as agreed by member countries of the Pan American Health Organization in 2014.
In 2015, Brazil faced a Zika virus epidemic that spread to other countries in the world.
