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    Staffing matters: funding counts: workforce profile and trends in the English NHS

    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 ...

    Cultural contexts of health: the use of narrative research in the health sector

    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...

    How do variations in definitions of “migrant” and their application influence the access of migrants to health care services?

    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...

    Public health aspects of mental health among migrants and refugees: a review of the evidence on mental health care for refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants in the WHO European Region

    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...

    What is the evidence on the reduction of inequalities in accessibility and quality of maternal health care delivery for migrants? A review of the existing evidence in the WHO European Region

    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...

    Evidence on financing and budgeting mechanisms to support intersectoral actions between health, education, social welfare and labour sectors

    Intersectoral collaboration between the health and the social welfare, education or labour sectors can help to influence the social determinants of health. Funding such collaboration can be difficult as these sectors may be subject to very different regulatory structures, incentives and goals. This revie...

    Consolidação da Rede para Políticas Informadas por Evidências - EVIPNet Brasil: relato da experiência nacional de construção de uma plataforma de tradução do conhecimento para o SUS
    Consolidation for Evidence-Informed Policy Network - EVIPNet Brazil: report of the national experience of building a knowledge translation platform for Brazilian Public Healthcare System (SUS)

    Esse artigo relata a experiência de implementação do plano de ação da Rede para Políticas Informadas por Evidências (EVIPNet Brasil), descrevendo suas atividades, de janeiro/2013 a março/ 2016, e discutindo sua relevância para a consolidação da iniciativa como uma plataforma de tradução do c...

    Respostas rápidas para Políticas de Saúde Informadas por Evidências
    Rapid response for evidence-informed health policy

    É reconhecido amplamente que as intervenções de saúde sustentadas pelas evidências de pesquisa serão mais efetivas do que aquelas que não são. Entretanto, na formulação de políticas de saúde, com seus processos decisórios não lineares e motivações políticas concorrentes, o uso de evidên...

    Métodos na EVIPNet Brasil: Ferramentas SUPPORT para políticas de saúde informadas por evidências
    Methodological approach in EVIPNet Brazil: SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health policy making

    Aqui apresentamos, de forma breve, os principais aspectos abordados pelas ferramentas SUPPORT (Supporting Policy Relevant Reviews and Trials) para elaboração de políticas de saúde informadas por evidências. As Ferramentas SUPPORT foram apresentadas em um conjunto de artigos publicados em 2009 na rev...

    Promovendo o desenvolvimento na primeira infância
    Promoting Early Childhood Development

    A primeira infância é uma etapa fundamental para o desenvolvimento, em termos cognitivos, socioemocionais e físicos. A importância do investimento no desenvolvimento infantil (DI) ou políticas de primeira infância fundamenta-se em vários argumentos. O principal é o direito de todas as crianças a...