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    Physical activity and prevention/control of arterial hypertension in primary healthcare

    Healthcare in Brazil has invested in formulating, implementing, and putting into practice policies related to the promotion, protection, and recovery of health. In the construction of the primary health care model, great emphasis has been placed on the improvement of the quality of life of collective sub...

    Using audit and feedback to health professionals to improve the quality and safety of health care

    There is now extensive evidence demonstrating that there is a gap between the health care that patients receive and the practice that is recommended. In both primary and secondary care there are unwarranted variations in practice and in resulting outcomes that cannot be explained by the characteristics o...

    Assessing future health workforce needs

    The choice of a strategy to assess the future health workforce (HW) is value-based and depends on what health outcomes and service objectives policy-makers have set.Various models, approaches and toolkits have been proposed and tried over the years by international agencies, as well as by individual coun...

    Human resource capacity to effectively implement malaria elimination in Ethiopia

    The purpose of this report is to inform deliberations among policymakers and stakeholders. It summarises the best available evidence regarding human resource capacity building as well as staff motivation as policy options for developing the capacity to effectively implement the proposed malaria eliminati...

    Issue brief: addressing housing challenges faced by people with HIV in Ontario

    About 26,630 Ontarians are living with HIV and about 1,000 more are newly diagnosed each year.(1) Of those who are newly diagnosed, over 50% are gay men, about a quarter are members of the African and Caribbean community, and about 8% are injection drug users....

    SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 1: what is evidence-informed policymaking?

    This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article, we discuss the following three questions: What is evidence? What is the role of research evidence in informing health...

    SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 2: improving how your organisation supports the use of research evidence to inform policymaking

    This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article, we address ways of organising efforts to support evidence-informed health policymaking. Efforts to link research to a...

    SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP). 3: setting priorities for supporting evidence-informed policymaking

    This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. Policymakers have limited resources for developing ? or supporting the development of ? evidence-informed policies and programmes. The...

    SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP). 4: using research evidence to clarify a problem

    This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. Policymakers and those supporting them often find themselves in situations that spur them on to work out how best to define a problem....

    SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 5: using research evidence to frame options to address a problem

    This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. Policymakers and those supporting them may find themselves in one or more of the following three situations that will require them to ...