Poor people?s access to good health care is limited because they cannot afford it and often live far from quality services. There is evidence that poor people will pay to use health services if the quality is good. Cash transfers have also been highly successful in encouraging women to use health care. A...
Contaminated water is bad for health, resulting in thousands of premature deaths around the world each year. There is strong evidence that household water treatment has the biggest impact and is the most costeffective method in reducing risks of diarrhoea. But the picture is not as clear when it comes to...
The world is falling behind its targets to improve people’s access to sanitation, with major health costs. There is strong evidence that both sanitation and hygiene interventions are highly effective in reducing risks of diarrhoea, however public health promotion appears more cost-effective. More evide...
Few rigorous impact evaluations are available. While assessments of the broad range of interventions find indoor air pollution is reduced, there is less evidence on how these affect health outcomes and which interventions are most cost-effective....
Existing evidence: School feeding leads to better educational outcomes, though results are more positive for school enrolment and attendance than for cognitive performance....
Primary healthcare includes first-contact services
delivered by a range of providers. Most commonly in
Canada these providers are general practitioners and
family physicians. However, increasingly these providers
can also include nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and
telephone advice lines, among others....
While the term “civil society” is in widespread use in
many countries, particularly in low- and middle-income
countries, in some countries (such as Canada) the terms
“voluntary organization,” “non-governmental
organization,” and “advocacy group” are much more
commonly used.(1) The term ...
This evidence brief mobilizes both global and local
research evidence about a problem, three options
for addressing the problem, and key
implementation considerations. Whenever
possible, the evidence brief summarizes research
evidence drawn from systematic reviews of the
research literature and occasiona...
More than 3.2 million stillbirths occur globally each year, yet stillbirths are largely invisible in global data tracking, policy dialogue and programme implementation. This mismatch of burden to action is due to a number of factors that keep stillbirths hidden, notably a lack of data and a lack of conse...
Problems underlying the current organization of diabetes management in Ontario that may be affecting the
overall accessibility and comprehensiveness of effective diabetes management can be understood by
considering: 1) the nature and burden of diabetes that the healthcare system must manage; 2) the effec...
