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) ...
As noted by the Health Council of Canada in 2013, there
are many definitions of quality in healthcare, but a
common conception of it is “the degree to which health
services for individuals and populations increase the
likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent
with current professional kn...
As of last year, nearly two million Ontarians saw their
family physicians for mental health and addictions
concerns. These two conditions account for
approximately 10% of the disease burden in Ontario.(1)
Psychiatric alternate level of care (ALC) days and longstay days represent a significant portion of ...
Oral health is important for the overall well-being of
children and adults, and poor oral health has been linked
to other diseases and serious health conditions such as
respiratory infections, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes
and poor nutritional status. Ontario provides public coverage for a limited sc...
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 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 ...
A primeira infância é uma etapa fundamental para o desenvolvimento, em
termos cognitivos, socioemocionais e físicos. A importância do investimento no
desenvolvimento infantil (DI) ou políticas de primeira infância fundamenta-se em vários
argumentos. O principal é o direito de todas as crianças a...
Health care is labour intensive, regardless of the nature of the health system, its structural
characteristics, levels and sources of funding, or political underpinnings. The effective
delivery of care requires decisions to be made about how much funding to allocate to
staffing and what mix of skills to ...
O Brasil alcançará o Objetivo do Milênio número quatro, reduzir a mortalidade
infantil, mas as taxas nacionais não revelam as persistentes desigualdades ainda
existentes entre as regiões geográficas e grupos populacionais. As regiões e as
populações com menores rendas sofrem maiores riscos de m...
Systematic reviews are important for decision makers. They offer many potential benefits but are
often written in technical language, are too long, and do not contain contextual details which make them hard to
use for decision-making. There are many organizations that develop and disseminate derivative p...
