Equity in health and equitable access to
healthcare has been at the core of health policy in India. The
key policy challenge has been how to make that possible?
Various health insurance schemes such as the Rashtriya Swasthya
Bima Yojana and Arogyasri seek to improve poor people’s
access to specialist m...
: Adverse events associated with
medications are under-reported in postmarketing
surveillance systems. A systematic review of published
data from 37 studies worldwide (including Canada)
found the median under-reporting rate of adverse
events to be 94% in spontaneous reporting systems.
This scoping review...
Para prevenção de quedas, lesões, queimaduras e envenenamento entre crianças e adolescentes é possível realizar atividades educativas e campanhas que orientem adultos/cuidadores a respeito de medidas preventivas a serem adotadas. Essas orientações tendem a ser mais efetivas se acompanhadas de ins...
This review focuses on existing immunization policies and practices for migrants and refugees and provides an overview of barriers and facilitators for access to and utilization of immunization services. Evidence was obtained by a scoping review of academic and grey literature in English and a further 11...
Purpose: The WHO’s Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) has supported Member States in designing, implementing and institutionalizing efforts to support evidence-informed policy-making (EIP). This experience has shown the importance of systematically and comprehensively identifying important cont...
A doença falciforme é uma das doenças hereditárias mais comuns no mundo. No estado de São Paulo, a incidência de doença falciforme é de um para quatro mil (1:4.000) nascidos vivos. Uma mutação no gene que produz a hemoglobina A origina, por meio de herança recessiva, a hemoglobina S (HbS). Em ...
The number of Canadians aged 65 or older is
expected to double within the next two decades,
and the proportion of those over the age of 80 is
expected to grow from 27.5% in 2012 to 32% in
2036.(1; 2) This trend holds true in British
Columbia (which is where the request came from
for this synthesis) where...
As noted by the Health Council of Canada in 2013, there
are many definitions of quality in healthcare, but a
common conception of it is “the degree to which health
services for individuals and populations increase the
likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent
with current professional kn...
As of last year, nearly two million Ontarians saw their
family physicians for mental health and addictions
concerns. These two conditions account for
approximately 10% of the disease burden in Ontario.(1)
Psychiatric alternate level of care (ALC) days and longstay days represent a significant portion of ...
Oral health is important for the overall well-being of
children and adults, and poor oral health has been linked
to other diseases and serious health conditions such as
respiratory infections, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes
and poor nutritional status. Ontario provides public coverage for a limited sc...
