ANTECEDENTES
En el marco de la Ley Ricarte Soto (Ley N°20.850), que establece el proceso destinado a determinar los diagnósticos y tratamientos de alto costo con Sistema de Protección Financiera, se realizó el siguiente informe.
El Cáncer Colorectal (CCR) es el tercer cáncer más común y causa pr...
This review focuses on existing immunization policies and practices for migrants and refugees and provides an overview of barriers and facilitators for access to and utilization of immunization services. Evidence was obtained by a scoping review of academic and grey literature in English and a further 11...
Purpose: The WHO’s Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) has supported Member States in designing, implementing and institutionalizing efforts to support evidence-informed policy-making (EIP). This experience has shown the importance of systematically and comprehensively identifying important cont...
Background: The objective of this work was to inform the design of a rapid response program to support evidence-informed decision-making in health policy and practice for the Americas region. Specifically, we focus on the following: (1) What are the best ethodological approaches for rapid reviews of the ...
Evidence indicates that actions within four main themes (early child development, fair employment and decent work, social protection, and the living environment) are likely to have the greatest impact on the social determinants of health and health inequities. A systematic search and analysis of recommen...
Governments across the WHO European Region need to take urgent action to address the growing public health, inequality, economic and environmental challenges in order to achieve sustainable development (meeting current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) ...
Evidence syntheses use multidisciplinary and intersectoral sources of evidence to support policy-making. The Health Evidence Network (HEN) has supported and strengthened the use of evidence in health policy-making in the WHO European Region since 2003. The HEN synthesis report series responds to public h...
A doença falciforme é uma das doenças hereditárias mais comuns no mundo. No estado de São Paulo, a incidência de doença falciforme é de um para quatro mil (1:4.000) nascidos vivos. Uma mutação no gene que produz a hemoglobina A origina, por meio de herança recessiva, a hemoglobina S (HbS). Em ...
The number of Canadians aged 65 or older is
expected to double within the next two decades,
and the proportion of those over the age of 80 is
expected to grow from 27.5% in 2012 to 32% in
2036.(1; 2) This trend holds true in British
Columbia (which is where the request came from
for this synthesis) where...
As noted by the Health Council of Canada in 2013, there
are many definitions of quality in healthcare, but a
common conception of it is “the degree to which health
services for individuals and populations increase the
likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent
with current professional kn...
