Storytelling is an essential tool for reporting and illuminating the cultural contexts of health: the practices and behaviour that groups of people share and that are defined by customs, language and geography. This report reviews the literature on narrative research, offers some quality criteria for app...
Variations in definitions used for “migrant” and for different groups of migrants in different areas can affect health systems’ policies and migrants’ access to health care. This systematic review explored this issue using evidence from academic peer-reviewed and grey literature in 169 publicatio...
The number of female migrants of childbearing age is rapidly increasing, which entails specific needs for maternal health services. Through a systematic review of the academic literature and a critical interpretive synthesis of policy frameworks, the authors of this review aimed to assess interventions a...
Intersectoral collaboration between the health and the social welfare, education or labour sectors can help to influence the social determinants of health. Funding such collaboration can be difficult as these sectors may be subject to very different regulatory structures, incentives and goals. This revie...
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...
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...
Each year more than 1,000 children and youth (0-19
years of age) die in Ontario.(1) The Office of the Chief
Coroner has consistently investigated between 43-49%
of these deaths each year,(1) and many of these
investigations offer opportunities to learn from the
circumstances of the death, although the ex...
The three reviews with evidence regarding the impact of
drop-in centres were conducted recently. Two of the reviews
(both of medium quality) focused on adult day centres for
older adults,(10;11) and the third (a high-quality review)
focused on interventions for promoting reintegration and
reducing harmfu...
Optimizing clinical practice based on data, evidence and
guidelines is a challenge faced in every health system
around the world. The way the challenge manifests
itself at the level of the patient has been remarkably
consistent over time: tough decisions made at the
intersection of clinical expertise, pa...
