OHTs are being introduced to provide a new way of
organizing and delivering care that is more integrated
from the perspective of the patients in their local
communities, and that achieves measurable
improvements in key quadruple-aim metrics of
improving care experiences and health outcomes at
manageable ...
The 14 jurisdictions include one federal/national/panCanadian jurisdiction, 10 provincial jurisdictions, and three
territorial jurisdictions. The first of these jurisdictions
includes both areas of federal government responsibility for
providing healthcare – most notably for Indigenous peoples,
militar...
Ontario has both a health system and a research system that
are increasingly putting patients and rapid learning and
improvement at their centre. For the health system, a recent
notable example of such efforts was the Patients First Act
2016 which, among other things, mandated the creation of
Patient and...
We identified a total of 21 relevant documents by
searching Health Systems Evidence and running
targeted searches in PubMed, with the search strategy
for these databases detailed in Box 2. A document was
included when it directly addressed the question posed
for this rapid synthesis (i.e., it was specifi...
Les dialogues sur les politiques permettent dexaminer les données de recherche parallèlement aux perspectives, aux expériences et aux connaissances tacites des personnes qui participent à la prise de décisions relatives à une question hautement prioritaire, ou qui sont touchées par de telles déci...
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. Systematic reviews are increasingly seen as a key source of information in policymaking, particularly in terms of assisting with descr...
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. After a policy decision has been made, the next key challenge is transforming this stated policy position into practical actions. What...
While the term “civil society” is in widespread use in
many countries, particularly in low- and middle-income
countries, in some countries (such as Canada) the terms
“voluntary organization,” “non-governmental
organization,” and “advocacy group” are much more
commonly used.(1) The term ...
La confiabilidad de las revisiones sistemáticas en cuanto a los efectos de las intervenciones sanitarias es variable. En consecuencia, los responsables de la toma de decisiones en políticas y las demás personas necesitan evaluar qué tanta confianza puede depositarse en dicha evidencia. El uso de proc...
Neste artigo abordaremos considerações sobre equidade. Desigualdades podem ser definidas como ?diferenças em saúde que são tanto desnecessárias e evitáveis quanto consideradas injustas e indevidas?. Fato este devidamente documentado em relação a fatores econômicos e sociais. As políticas ou pr...
