This policy brief was prepared at the request of the Human Resources Directorate of the Ministry
of Public Health to inform the deliberations leading to the development of the national strategic
plan for the health workforce. It describes the magnitude, the consequences and the underlying
factors of the ...
Nurse practitioners are ‘registered nurses with additional
educational preparation and experience who possess and
demonstrate the competencies to autonomously diagnose,
order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe
pharmaceuticals and perform specific procedures within their
legislated scope of pract...
Cancer can be seen as a chronic disease that requires
long-term efforts to address the late effects of treatment
and to maximize the health outcomes of survivors.
Clinicians, experts and healthcare system leaders in the
Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant region of Ontario,
much like those working in other ...
Au début de la décennie 90, le Cameroun a mis en œuvre un système de santé décentralisé
conformément aux cadres conceptuels du district de santé et des soins de santé primaires
recommandés par le Bureau régional de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (AFRO). Des
structures de dialogue comm...
Opportunities exist to disseminate evidence-based cancer control strategies to state-level policy makers in both
the legislative and executive branches. We explored factors that influence the likelihood that state-level policy
makers will find a policy brief understandable, credible, and useful....
Las estrategias implementadas en las últimas tres décadas para incrementar la cobertura y acceso
de comunidades excluidas a prestaciones de salud, se caracterizaban por una organización basada
en programas verticales entregados en los establecimientos de salud de la red de servicios, de
segundo y terc...
Systematic reviews show that access to community-based health services reduces neonatal mortality and still births, but t he effect on maternal mortality is harder to detect. However, the evidence so fr has come from small sample size studies, mainly conducted in Asia and with very little information fro...
There is a shortage and maldistribution of medically trained health professionals. These are important reasons why cost-effective MCH services are not available to over half the population of Uganda and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for MCH is slow. Optimising the roles of less specia...
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) programmes provide cash to poor households who meet certain health and education conditions such as regular school attendance and health check-ups for children at the clinic. This model of intervention is spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. Over 17 countrie...
EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network) Africa—a network of World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored knowledge-translation (KT) platforms in seven sub-Saharan African countries—was launched at a meeting in Brazzaville, Congo, in March 2006 (1;2). EVIPNet Africa can trace its origins to resolution...
