Health care is labour intensive, regardless of the nature of the health system, its structural
characteristics, levels and sources of funding, or political underpinnings. The effective
delivery of care requires decisions to be made about how much funding to allocate to
staffing and what mix of skills to ...
O Brasil alcançará o Objetivo do Milênio número quatro, reduzir a mortalidade
infantil, mas as taxas nacionais não revelam as persistentes desigualdades ainda
existentes entre as regiões geográficas e grupos populacionais. As regiões e as
populações com menores rendas sofrem maiores riscos de m...
Um dos principais desafios das políticas de saúde é promover o uso sistemático
de evidências científicas na sua formulação e implementação. Esse desafio é ainda
mais significativo em países como o Brasil, onde os resultados das políticas de saúde
são condicionados também por fatores socio...
La articulación entre la investigación científica y el diseño de políticas públicas efectivas es una de las principales herramientas de legitimidad para los hacedores de política. La producción de nueva evidencia se ha incrementado en los últimos años, nuevas metodologías y herramientas tecnol...
The aim of this document is to serve EVIPNet Europe country teams and WHO country offices as a summary of the major communication considerations associated with communicating about and advocating for EVIPNet. It can serve as a “refresher” of related concepts, tools and “to-do’s”, or it can be u...
Systematic reviews are important for decision makers. They offer many potential benefits but are
often written in technical language, are too long, and do not contain contextual details which make them hard to
use for decision-making. There are many organizations that develop and disseminate derivative p...
Storytelling is an essential tool for reporting and illuminating the cultural contexts of health: the practices and behaviour that groups of people share and that are defined by customs, language and geography. This report reviews the literature on narrative research, offers some quality criteria for app...
The number of female migrants of childbearing age is rapidly increasing, which entails specific needs for maternal health services. Through a systematic review of the academic literature and a critical interpretive synthesis of policy frameworks, the authors of this review aimed to assess interventions a...
Variations in definitions used for “migrant” and for different groups of migrants in different areas can affect health systems’ policies and migrants’ access to health care. This systematic review explored this issue using evidence from academic peer-reviewed and grey literature in 169 publicatio...
The increasing number of refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants poses a challenge for mental
health services in Europe. This review found that these groups are exposed to risk factors for mental
disorders before, during and after migration. The prevalence rates of psychotic, mood and substance u...
