Depuis les indépendances, les stratégies d’allocation budgétaire au niveau du ministère
de la santé étaient basées sur l’analyse des budgets passés (allocation historique), les
contraintes budgétaires générales et sur des pourcentages d’augmentation des crédits
par rapport aux exercices...
Opportunities exist to disseminate evidence-based cancer control strategies to state-level policy makers in both
the legislative and executive branches. We explored factors that influence the likelihood that state-level policy
makers will find a policy brief understandable, credible, and useful....
Systematic reviews show that access to community-based health services reduces neonatal mortality and still births, but t he effect on maternal mortality is harder to detect. However, the evidence so fr has come from small sample size studies, mainly conducted in Asia and with very little information fro...
There is a shortage and maldistribution of medically trained health professionals. These are important reasons why cost-effective MCH services are not available to over half the population of Uganda and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals for MCH is slow. Optimising the roles of less specia...
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) programmes provide cash to poor households who meet certain health and education conditions such as regular school attendance and health check-ups for children at the clinic. This model of intervention is spreading rapidly throughout the developing world. Over 17 countrie...
European countries face common challenges in ensuring a well-performing
health workforce in times of existing and projected shortages. One of the
multiple aspects that determine the supply and performance of health workers
is the work environment, which plays a critical role.
Given the demographic change...
This issue brief mobilizes both global and local
research evidence about a problem, three options
for addressing the problem, and key
implementation considerations. Whenever
possible, the issue brief summarizes research
evidence drawn from systematic reviews of the
research literature and occasionally fr...
In Saskatchewan, where more than one third of the
population lives in rural areas, geographic location can
be an important factor affecting health, healthcare, and
quality of healthcare.(2) Although all people living in
Saskatchewan should have equal access to publicly
insured healthcare programs and ser...
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...
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....
