Los responsables de la toma de decisiones en políticas y quienes los respaldan pueden encontrarse en una o más de las siguientes tres situaciones que requerirán que caractericen los costos y las consecuencias de las opciones para abordar un problema. Estas son: 1. Ya se tomó una decisión y su rol es...
La confiabilidad de las revisiones sistemáticas en cuanto a los efectos de las intervenciones sanitarias es variable. En consecuencia, los responsables de la toma de decisiones en políticas y las demás personas necesitan evaluar qué tanta confianza puede depositarse en dicha evidencia. El uso de proc...
Dans le présent article, nous examinons la prise de décisions dans un contexte où les données probantes sont insuffisantes. En pareille situation, les responsables de politiques sont souvent incapables de prévoir avec certitude les répercussions dune proposition de politique ou de programme de sant...
Dans le présent article, nous abordons des stratégies destinées à informer le public et à susciter sa participation à l´élaboration et à la mise en´uvre de politiques. L´importance de l´engagement du public (tant les patients que les citoyens) à tous les niveaux des systèmes de santé est l...
O resumo de políticas é uma abordagem relativamente nova na integração de evidências de pesquisas para os formuladores de políticas. A primeira etapa de um resumo de política é priorizar um problema relacionado a políticas. Então, isso é usado para mobilizar todas as evidências de pesquisa re...
The policy issue: patient engagementOccasionally, all citizens have to make important health decisions that affecthealth outcomes. Strategies to support patient education and engagementshould therefore be a fundamental plank of health policy. Also, patients canplay an important role in understanding the ...
Policy issues• Health technology assessment (HTA) is an important tool for informing effective regulation of the diffusion and use of health technologies.• The key policy issues surrounding the use of HTA fall into three areas: (a) the bodies, decision-makers and other stakeholders involved, (b) the ...
The terms vertical and integrated are widely used in health service delivery, but
each describes a range of phenomena. In practice, the dichotomy between
them is not rigid, and the extent of verticality or integration varies between
programmes – including (1) a vertically funded, managed, delivered and...
Improved health care, lifestyle changes and changing demography mean that
more people are living longer and often with chronic diseases that cannot
currently be cured. Advances in health care that support longer life are to be
celebrated, but health care systems cannot cope with the increasing incidence
...
Skill-mix initiatives focus on changing professional roles - directly and indirectly.They change roles directly through extension of roles or skills, delegation, andthe introduction of a new type of worker; they change them indirectly throughmodifications of the interface between services - that is, wher...
