title: Using law to strengthen health professions: frameworks and practice.
abstract: The lack of sufficient, high-quality health workers is one of the primary barriers to improving health in sub-saharan africa. An approach to address this challenge is for public health practitioners to increase their cooperation with public health lawyers, regulators and other policymakers in order to develop strengthened health workforce laws, regulations, and policies that are vigorously implemented and enforced. Conceptual frameworks can help clarify the meaning of health system governance and the pathways between law and health. International recommendations for policy interventions governing health workers provide countries with valuable guidance for domestic reforms. Monitoring and evaluation of legal, regulatory, and other policy interventions are required to ascertain their public health impact. At the intersection of law and public health, professionals from both fields can collaborate in concrete ways such as those discussed here to improve laws and policies governing health.
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, center for Global health, division of Global HIV/AIDS.
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verani
authors.affiliation: East Central and Southern Africa Health Community.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shayo
authors.affiliation: Howse Fleming Legal.
authors.forename: Genevieve
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Howse
references.citation: Lancet. 2004 Nov 27-Dec 3;364(9449):1984-90
references.pmid: 15567015