The WHO European Region has faced high rates of external and internal migration in recent years, with concerns that this is contributing to the burden of tuberculosis (TB), multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and TB/HIV coinfection in some countries. This report examines evidence of effective and efficient s...
Health systems performance assessment (HSPA) varies across the WHO European Region. This review summarizes HSPA domains and indicators used by Member States in their HSPA or health system-related reports. Thirty Member States published in the English language and from their latest documents, 1485 distinc...
The World Health Assembly in 2005 urged Member States to establish or strengthen knowledge transfer mechanisms to support evidence-informed health policies and health care delivery. The European Health Information Initiative was set up to strengthen the use of evidence, information and research for polic...
Fifteen to twenty years is how long it takes for the billions of dollars of university-based research to translate into evidence-based policies and programs suitable for public use. Over the past decade, an exciting science has emerged that seeks to narrow the gap between the discovery of new knowledge a...
We identified a total of 21 relevant documents by
searching Health Systems Evidence and running
targeted searches in PubMed, with the search strategy
for these databases detailed in Box 2. A document was
included when it directly addressed the question posed
for this rapid synthesis (i.e., it was specifi...
ANTECEDENTES Y OBJETIVO
En relación con la ley de despenalización de la interrupción del embarazo por tres causales, el Ministerio de Salud se encuentra evaluando el diseño de un programa de apoyo psicosocial a estas mujeres, con el objetivo de reducir el impacto psicológico.
En este contexto el De...
Healthcare provider remuneration mechanisms are one
of the key policy levers that decision-makers can harness
to influence health-system performance.(1) In Canada,
remunerating physicians is the second-largest source of
public expenditures accounting for 21% of all health
spending in the country.(2) With...
Ontario is home to people from more than 200 countries
who speak more than 130 languages. Multiculturalism,
human rights and diversity are core values embraced in
the province.(1) The public education system can play a
crucial role in supporting these core values by
transcending socio-economic and ethno-...
Our jurisdictional scan yielded no information about
phamacogenetic tests that are publicly covered at the
population level for select conditions across the
jurisdictions reviewed. However, in reviewing the
literature, we did find one primary study that examined
coverage policies for individual pharmacog...
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project
in the 1990s, there have been rapid advances of
research in the area of genetics and genomics.(1)
When combined with evolving medical technologies
this has meant that the use of genetic testing and
screening are increasingly common in the health
system. Ge...
