Esta sintesis propone opciones políticas a los decisores gubernamentales responsables de definir la agenda pública para lobrar un desarrollo sostenible en Colombia, que vive una profunda y dramática situación de desigualdad social. Las seguinetes opciones políticas estan basadas en una serie de reco...
Prostate cancer is a major cause of death among men, with over 56,000 deaths in the European Union in 1998. There are no obvious preventive strategies, therefore screening has been considered to reduce the number of deaths. Opportunistic screening is widely carried out but there are no known national pro...
Governments across the WHO European Region need to take urgent action to address the growing public health, inequality, economic and environmental challenges in order to achieve sustainable development (meeting current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) ...
Evidence indicates that actions within four main themes (early child development, fair employment and decent work, social protection, and the living environment) are likely to have the greatest impact on the social determinants of health and health inequities. A systematic search and analysis of recommen...
The World Health Assembly in 2005 urged Member States to establish or strengthen knowledge transfer mechanisms to support evidence-informed health policies and health care delivery. The European Health Information Initiative was set up to strengthen the use of evidence, information and research for polic...
Evidence syntheses use multidisciplinary and intersectoral sources of evidence to support policy-making. The Health Evidence Network (HEN) has supported and strengthened the use of evidence in health policy-making in the WHO European Region since 2003. The HEN synthesis report series responds to public h...
This review focuses on national and subnational Mediterranean diet (MD) and Nordic diet (ND) interventions and policies in the WHO European Region. In the context of increasing noncommunicable disease (NCD) burden and unhealthy diets, there is a need to continue identifying optimal, evidence-informed die...
Community empowerment has been frequently studied at subnational levels but it is less clear how to measure it at a national level. Mixed methods approaches would be advantageous, using quantitative data from databases plus qualitative information to derive a range of variables and indicators. This repor...
Sínteses de evidências qualitativas (SEQs) têm sido crescentemente utilizadas na área da saúde e novos métodos têm proliferado. O aumento da demanda por SEQs é impulsionado principalmente pelo reconhecimento de que evidências sobre efetividade não são suficientes para melhorar a saúde, sendo ...
Evidence-Informed Policy,
Health Policy/trends,
Primary Health Care,
Syphilis/therapy,
Anemia, Sickle Cell/therapy,
Syphilis, Congenital/therapy,
Diabetic Foot/therapy,
Suicide/psychology,
Biological Products
A taxa de mortalidade infantil no Brasil reduziu 61,7% entre 1990 e 2010, mas o Brasil amarga o 90º lugar entre 187 países no ranking da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), atrás de Cuba (5,25), Chile (6,48), Argentina (12,8), China (15,4) e México (16,5), com inaceitáveis 19,88 mortes por mil ...
