Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional
graduate education and experience.(1; 2) As regulated
health professionals, nurse practitioners have a legislated
expanded scope of practice that gives them independent
authority to assess, diagnose and provide treatment.(3)
This broader scope of ...
The health of British Columbians has continued to
improve over the past decade, with gains in healthadjusted life expectancy and a gradual decrease in the
gap between the life expectancy of women and men.(1)
These gains in health status have come, in part, as a
result of provincial efforts to strengthen ...
Canada, like most high-income countries, is experiencing an aging
population, with those over 65 being on track to represent 25% of the
Canadian population by 2050. This shift in population demographics is
requiring significant changes in the delivery of health and social services
including an increased ...
Affordability is a key barrier to access to medicines. Generic medicines policies can address this barrier and promote access. Successful uptake of generic medicines depends, in part, on ensuring that these products are interchangeable with reference products. Typically, bioequivalence certification is e...
The regulation and oversight of the health professionals
responsible for providing care to patients in Ontario is
an important mechanism to ensure patients receive the
highest-quality care possible (e.g., by setting the
standards that professionals need to meet in their
practice) while mitigating, to the...
What are the features of different non-urgent
transportation models and what approaches may improve
use of non-urgent transportation in Ontario?...
Under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 every
regulatory college in Ontario is expected to establish a
quality-assurance program to ensure the ongoing quality
of each profession’s practice....
Intercultural mediators are employed to resolve linguistic and cultural barriers in a variety of health-care contexts. This report examines the main roles performed by intercultural mediators in health care across the WHO European Region and analyses evidence on their effectiveness in improving accessibi...
This article presents the results of a dialogue between decision-makers and experts in Latin America and the Caribbean on priority-setting for interventions and studies on Aedes aegypti control. The article is part of a project that included a systematic review of mosquito control strategies and a qualit...
Ontario has both a health system and a research system that are increasingly aiming to support rapid learning and improvement. Yet, Ontario's health system still faces complex challenges, such as reducing emergency-room wait times, ending hallway medicine, improving support for people with mental health ...
