The issue of violence and injuries and its status as a
major public health problem has gained significant
political traction both internationally and within the
Caribbean region during the last two decades.
Internationally, the momentum began to build
across the Americas in 1993 with PAHO resolution
CD37...
In April 2017, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS concluded that the biggest internal threat to the sustainability of the NHS is the lack of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the NHS and care system the workforce it needs. This briefing, and its two s...
The Health Foundation, an independent health care charity, was asked by
the Secretary of State for Health to review indicators of the quality of general
practice in England. We looked at how they could be made better to support
improvements to care, including how they are selected and presented.
Within t...
There is an increasing focus on improving healthcare in order to ensure higher quality. Training programmes have been developed to teach health professionals and students formal quality improvement methods. This evidence scan explores the following questions: What types of training about formal quality i...
Today, 1 percent of patients account for more than 20 percent of health care expenditures, and 5 percent account for nearly half of the nation’s spending on health care (Figure S-1) (Mitchell, 2016). Improving care management for this population while balancing quality and associated costs is at the fo...
About 26,630 Ontarians are living with HIV and about
1,000 more are newly diagnosed each year.(1) Of those
who are newly diagnosed, over 50% are gay men, about
a quarter are members of the African and Caribbean
community, and about 8% are injection drug users....
In order for health workers to provide quality care and meet their communities’ changing health care needs, they must become lifelong learners dedicated to updating their professional knowledge, skills, values, and practice. Continuing professional development (CPD) encompasses all of the activities th...
Optimizing clinical practice based on data, evidence and
guidelines is a challenge faced in every health system
around the world. The way the challenge manifests
itself at the level of the patient has been remarkably
consistent over time: tough decisions made at the
intersection of clinical expertise, pa...
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 ...
