O avanço das mídias digitais e sociais reformulou o conceito de comunicação em saúde. Desde então, diferentes estratégias têm sido desenvolvidas para aumentar o entendimento sobre os resultados das pesquisas científicas direcionadas aos gestores e à população. Como
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The Health Evidence Network (HEN) is an information service for public health decision-makers
in the WHO European Region, in action since 2003 and initiated and coordinated by the WHO
Regional Office for Europe under the umbrella of the European Health Information Initiative (a
multipartner network coord...
Opioid addiction has emerged as a pressing publichealth challenge in recent years. From January 2016 to
March 2018 more than 8,000 opioid-related deaths were
recorded.(1) In 2018, the number of apparent opioidrelated deaths continues to rise, with more than 1,000
deaths in the first three months of the y...
Ontario has both a health system and a research system that
are increasingly putting patients and rapid learning and
improvement at their centre. For the health system, a recent
notable example of such efforts was the Patients First Act
2016 which, among other things, mandated the creation of
Patient and...
Health literacy is gaining increasing attention as a means of promoting health. This evidence synthesis describes health literacy policies in the WHO European Region: their distribution, organizational levels, antecedents, actors, activities and outcomes, along with the factors influencing their effectiv...
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
(CPSO) and Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) have formed a
partnership to support ongoing training, education and
quality improvement across the province. This
partnership will develop provincial quality-management
programs for the service areas of colonoscopy,
m...
A core question for policy-makers will be the extent to which investments
in preventive actions that address some of the social determinants of health
represent an effi cient option to help promote and protect population health.
Can they reduce the level of ill health in the population? How strong is the...
School health promotion, based on a wide range of research and practice, has evolved over the course of the last 50 years, alongside health promotion in other settings. During the 1990s, WHO, working jointly with the European Commission and the Council of Europe, developed the health promoting schools in...
Many disease prevention and health promotion programmes are directed at the health of children and young people because they can prevent both immediate problems (mortality and morbidity) and long-term problems. However, even where there is evidence to support such public health interventions, implementat...
