World Medical & Health Policy
Mapping Healthcare Professional Regulation Globally With the Structural Quality and Modernization Index
ABSTRACT The recognition of healthcare professional qualifications across jurisdictions remains uneven, despite frameworks such as the European Union's Directive 2005/36/EC. In this study, we developed and applied the Structural Quality and Modernization Index (SQMI), a novel tool specifically designed for this research to enable comparative benchmarking of modernization across diverse health professional regulatory systems. A systematic policy analysis covering 2005–2025 was conducted across seven jurisdictions, e …