Chronic pain is a serious health problem given its
prevalence, associated disability, impact on quality of
life, and the costs associated with the extensive use of
healthcare services by people living with chronic
pain.(1) In Canada, some investments have been made
to strengthen chronic pain management. ...
All countries in Europe are experiencing an ageing of their populations, a trend
that is projected to continue until at least the middle of the twenty-first century.
This process is often regarded as a major cause of upward pressure on health
care costs. However, analyses of health care expenditure show ...
Assessing different options for the funding of long-term care – that is, nonmedical assistance provided to people with physical or mental health needs to
help cope with the everyday activities of life – raises three key issues. First, it
requires an assessment of the future need for long-term care se...
El objetivo de este resumen es presentar las mejores evidencias científicas disponibles para la prevención y control del dengue con base comunitaria. Fue preparado siguiendo rigurosos criterios de búsqueda, selección e inclusión de los resultados de investigaciones relevantes con el fin de informar ...
Large-scale randomized interventions have the potential to uncover the causal effect of programs applying to a large population, thereby improving on the insights gained from currently dominant smaller randomized studies. However, the external validity gained through larger interventions typically implie...
Improved health care, lifestyle changes and changing demography mean that
more people are living longer and often with chronic diseases that cannot
currently be cured. Advances in health care that support longer life are to be
celebrated, but health care systems cannot cope with the increasing incidence
...
In some countries, pressure is growing to demonstrate that practising physicians
continue to meet acceptable standards, driven in part by concerns that the
knowledge obtained during basic training may rapidly become out of date. This
takes various forms, from expectations – in some cases backed by vari...
The international migration of health professionals has been a growingfeature of the global health agenda since the late 1990s. In Europe, theaccession of more countries to the European Union (EU) since 2004 hasincreased the scope for mobility among health workers and raisedadditional issues within the E...
Skill-mix initiatives focus on changing professional roles - directly and indirectly.They change roles directly through extension of roles or skills, delegation, andthe introduction of a new type of worker; they change them indirectly throughmodifications of the interface between services - that is, wher...
