Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional
graduate education and experience.(1; 2) As regulated
health professionals, nurse practitioners have a legislated
expanded scope of practice that gives them independent
authority to assess, diagnose and provide treatment.(3)
This broader scope of ...
Affordability is a key barrier to access to medicines. Generic medicines policies can address this barrier and promote access. Successful uptake of generic medicines depends, in part, on ensuring that these products are interchangeable with reference products. Typically, bioequivalence certification is e...
Chile implemented a generic substitution policy in 2014 to improve access to medicines. This study aims to measure if the generic substitution policy had an effect on the sales volume and prices of referent and the branded generic products with demonstrated bioequivalence (BEQ) in the private pharmaceuti...
Se presenta un manual metodológico para el desarrollo de síntesis rápidas de evidencia para informar políticas de salud, abarcando las principales etapas del proceso: formulación y clarificación de la pregunta; búsqueda de evidencia; selección de evidencia; extracción y utilización de datos; ev...
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic with rates having risen to alarming levels in both developed and developing countries. Chile has been no exemption, with sharp increases in obesity prevalence, especially among school-age children. This paper describes the policy actions and strategies impleme...
