When confronted by an economic shock affecting the health sector, policymakers may decide to maintain, decrease or increase current levels of public
expenditure on health. With each option they could also reallocate funds within
the health system to enhance efficiency. A range of tools can be used to alt...
Regular physical activity (PA) is an underlying factor since childhood and adolescence for having a healthy and active future for life. The aim of this stud y was to review the evidence on increasing the youth PA to develop the national program at country level. At first, the databases were searched usin...
Human resource shortages in the health services are widely
acknowledged as a threat to the attainment of the healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Attempts to
optimize the potential of the existing health workforce are
therefore crucial. A more rational distribution of tasks and
responsibili...
Rapid technological advances in genetics and genomics
hold promise for the diagnosis, treatment and even
prevention of common and rare diseases. Nevertheless,
they also raise concerns regarding their potential
impacts on health systems, which has led many
countries to reflect on the optimal models to coo...
An assessment of what is is known about problems related to expanding the uptake of hospital-based tobacco-use cessation supports, options for addressing these problems, and key implementation considerations. The evidence brief was an input to a stakeholder dialogue on the topic of expanding the uptake o...
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...
Uganda’s maternal mortality has moderately declined from 670 per 100,000 live births in
1990 to 430 per 100,000 live births in 2008. This annual decline of 13 maternal deaths per
100,000 live births is unlikely to achieve the MDG target of 168 per 100,000 live birthsby
2015. The proportion of pregnant ...
This brief is a contribution to deliberations aiming at fostering the use of antenatal care (ANC)
services by pregnant women in order to reach the optimum recommended by WHO (e.g., four
prenatal visits, one per quarter including one just before delivery) within the framework of the
Campaign for the Accel...
The number of health workers in Mozambique is insufficient to enable the achievement of the
country‟s population health goals. This problem is compounded by the uneven distribution of
health care works by province and by area of residence, and by a weak and under-resourced
national health system which ...
Health costs are spiralling out of control all over the world in context of global financial crisis while some countries are still struggling to offer basic health services. The health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is most often unfunded, including the health workforce, which represents the single largest...
