Correction to: Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico.

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Gender inequality in the health workforce in the midst of achieving universal health coverage in Mexico.

Background: The third Sustainable Development Goal aims to ensure healthy lives and to promote well-being for all at all ages. The health system plays a key role in achieving these goals and must have sufficient human resources in order to provide care to the population according to their needs and expectations.

Methods: This paper explores the issues of unemployment, underemployment, and labor wastage in physicians and nurses in Mexico, all of which serve as barriers to achieving universal health coverage.

Social participation and quality of health care: the experience of citizens' health representatives in Mexico.

Objective: This article describes the experience of the aval ciudadano "Citizens' Representative" (CR) in improving the Mexican health care system.

Methods: This is a qualitative study which took place in eight Mexican states in 2008. It evaluates different aspects of a nationwide program to increase the quality of health care services (National Crusade for Quality in Health Services).