Call to build health equity
Taking as a starting point the provocative article recently developed jointly by the Pan American Health Organization and the Health Equity Network of the Americas (HENA) and published in the Pan American Health Journal under the title “Do not remain blind to equity: lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas”1 we call for action by raising the need to have information systems for advancing prosperity and development in Latin America and for monitoring health equity, the resilience of health systems, and the implementation of explicit policies and practices aimed at eliminating health inequities.
Authors
- Amy E. Ritterbusch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2759-2427)
- Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvão (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3918-0286)
- Manuel Urbina
- Leyla Jael Castro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3986-0510)
- Arachu Castro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0428-9174)
- Wilmar Andrés Morales López
- Carolina Gómez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7679-3559)
- Ximena Avellaneda
- Carlos F. Cáceres
- Pedro Más (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1682-4787)
- Rocío Sáenz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-1734)
- Wilmer Sancho
- Jossel Quesada
- Luis Fernando Solís
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca (MX)
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (PE)
- Center for Health and Gender Equity (US)
- Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (IN)
- Universidad Libre de Costa Rica (CR)
- Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Pedro Kourí” (CU)
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
- Published
- 2025-04-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101071
- Primary Topic
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00