Ontario has both a health system and a research system that are increasingly aiming to support rapid learning and improvement. Yet, Ontario's health system still faces complex challenges, such as reducing emergency-room wait times, ending hallway medicine, improving support for people with mental health ...
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...
A gap exists in efforts to support the use of research
evidence between ‘self-serve’ approaches such as ‘one-stop
shops’ for research evidence (e.g., Health Systems
Evidence – www.healthsystemsevidence.org) and ‘fullserve’ approaches such as convening stakeholder dialogues
with health-syste...
The purpose of this report is to inform deliberations among policymakers and stakeholders. It
summarises the best available evidence regarding the design and implementation of policies for
improving skilled birth attendance. The report was prepared as a background document to be discussed at meetings att...
The purpose of this report is to inform deliberations among policymakers and stakeholders. It
summarises the best available evidence regarding the design and implementation of policies for
improving health care financing.
The report was prepared as a background document to be discussed at meetings attend...
Over the past three decades, Canada has made
substantial progress in reducing the national rate of
avoidable mortality (deaths that could potentially have
been avoided through disease prevention or
healthcare services). In fact, the national avoidable
mortality rate has decreased by half – from 373 per...
Health costs are spiralling out of control all over the world in context of global financial crisis while some countries are still struggling to offer basic health services. The health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is most often unfunded, including the health workforce, which represents the single largest...
Led by Lord Nigel Crisp, (Member of House of Lords (UK) and champion of the Global Health Workforce Alliance), the All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) on Global Health and Africa launched a new report "All the Talents". The report looks at how innovations in the skill mix of health workers can improve ...
