Although not using EVIPNet methodologies yet, this policy brief is helpful in showing how Morocco has implemented efficient strategies of intervention to accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality. The exercise of the evidence informed policy brief writing with multisectoral health players such as UN...
The lack of health system decision-maker engagement in
supporting comprehensive chronic pain management in
provincial and territorial healthcare systems in Canada
can be understood by considering four sets of
interrelated issues: 1) lack of awareness of chronic pain;
2) lack of awareness of limitations i...
An increasing number of global issues have emerged as
key determinants of health. Governments around the
world are recognizing the importance of considering and
acting upon these global issues as a way to protect and
improve the health of their citizens. Specifically, these
governments have started to re...
Clinical nurse specialists are defined as ‘registered
nurses holding a master’s degree in nursing and having
expertise in a clinical nursing specialty who promote
excellence in nursing practice. They serve as role models and
advocates for nurses by providing leadership in their roles
as clinicians, r...
Nurse practitioners are ‘registered nurses with additional
educational preparation and experience who possess and
demonstrate the competencies to autonomously diagnose,
order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe
pharmaceuticals and perform specific procedures within their
legislated scope of pract...
This policy brief was prepared at the request of the Human Resources Directorate of the Ministry
of Public Health to inform the deliberations leading to the development of the national strategic
plan for the health workforce. It describes the magnitude, the consequences and the underlying
factors of the ...
In the early 1990s, Cameroon implemented a decentralised health system in accordance with the
health district and primary healthcare frameworks recommended by the Africa Regional Office of
the World Health Organization (AFRO-WHO). To enhance both responsiveness and equity and to
foster participation in t...
Systematic reviews show that access to community-based health services reduces neonatal mortality and still births, but t he effect on maternal mortality is harder to detect. However, the evidence so fr has come from small sample size studies, mainly conducted in Asia and with very little information fro...
There is a shortage and maldistribution of medically trained health professionals. These are important reasons why cost-effective MCH services are not available to over half the population of Uganda and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for MCH is slow. Optimising the roles of less specia...
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) programmes provide cash to poor households who meet certain health and education conditions such as regular school attendance and health check-ups for children at the clinic. This model of intervention is spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. Over 17 countrie...
