ABSTRACT The Revista Argentina de Salud Pública starts publishing a special supplement on COVID-19 following an Open-Access continuous publication model. It aims to become a scientific communication tool that serves for informed and evidence-based decision-making in this pandemic context, which requires to have timely and reliable scientific information as quickly as possible. In order to meet this objective, not only has the publication system been changed —from now on articles are received, reviewed, edited and published— but also technical and editorial teams have been strengthened to speed up the process of review and publication. In addition to the contents regularly published by the journal, such as original articles, reviews, health interventions, and epidemiological analyses of health situations, ad hoc sections were created for this supplement, such as research protocols, case reports or case series, specialized editorials, and original articles with a socio-sanitary perspective, in order to disseminate not only advances in treatments and therapeutics on COVID-19, but also the health and social impact on population health determinants. A wide call has also been made to form a special body of external reviewers from scientific societies, universities, and the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet), among other institutions, with the aim of turning the Revista Argentina de Salud Pública into a federal space to discuss and share the best available evidence in Public Health.

RESUMEN La Revista Argentina de Salud Pública comienza a editar un Suplemento Especial sobre COVID-19 de publicación continua y en Acceso Abierto. El objetivo es que se constituya en una herramienta de comunicación científica que sirva para la toma de decisiones informadas y basadas en evidencias en un contexto como el de la pandemia, en el que es necesario disponer con la mayor celeridad posible de información científica oportuna y confiable. Para cumplir este objetivo, no solo se ha cambiado el sistema de publicación —a partir de ahora los artículos se reciben, se revisan, se editan y se publican—, sino que se han reforzado los equipos técnicos y editoriales para acelerar el proceso de revisión y publicación. Además de los contenidos que la revista publica regularmente, como artículos originales, revisiones, intervenciones sanitarias y análisis epidemiológicos de situación de salud, para este suplemento se crearon secciones ad hoc como protocolos de investigación, reportes de caso o serie de casos, editoriales especializados y artículos originales con perspectiva sociosanitaria, a fin de dar cuenta, por un lado, de los avances en tratamientos y terapéuticas y, por otro, del impacto sanitario y social en los determinantes de la salud de la población. Se ha realizado también una amplia convocatoria para conformar un cuerpo especial de revisores externos procedentes de sociedades científicas, universidades y del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, entre otras instituciones, con el objetivo de convertir a la Revista Argentina de Salud Pública en un espacio federal para discutir y compartir la mejor evidencia disponible en Salud Pública.

This article tries to indicate the direction of progress in management being taken in health sector reforms in Latin America. The piece first discusses the tension between local forces and international neoliberal trends being manifested in the reform in various countries. The article next looks at the distinction between the tools and the management models that are being applied, presenting a taxonomy of three management levels: macromanagement (national health systems), midlevel management (hospitals, insurers, and other such institutions), and micromanagement (clinics). The piece concludes by reflecting on the future of management in the health sector in Latin America, where health systems are overadministered and undermanaged. Their future depends on multiple factors, most of which are outside the health care field itself. Better management of policies, institutions, and patients would be a tremendous tool in directing the future. Management is here to stay, with greater emphasis on either supply--hospitals and physicians--or demand--citizens or clients. For both the public and private sectors, health management is central to health sector reforms in Latin America.