The World Health Organization (WHO) since June 1998 has advocated for the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in countries where Plasmodium falciparum malaria is resistant to traditional antimalarial therapies such as chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and amodiaquine (19;22). In 2...
EVIPNet (Evidence-Informed Policy Network) Africa—a network of World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored knowledge-translation (KT) platforms in seven sub-Saharan African countries—was launched at a meeting in Brazzaville, Congo, in March 2006 (1;2). EVIPNet Africa can trace its origins to resolution...
As desigualdades sociais entre regiões e populações no Brasil se reproduzem nas taxas de mortalidade infantil, constituindo um relevante problema de saúde a ser enfrentado por toda a sociedade. Apesar do declínio da mortalidade infantil na última década, as taxas encontradas nas regiões Norte e N...
A atenção à saúde no Brasil tem investido na formulação, implementação e concretização de políticas
de promoção, proteção e recuperação da saúde. Há um grande esforço na construção de modelo de
atenção à saúde que priorize ações de mehoria da qualidade de vida dos sujeitos col...
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...
The purpose of this policy brief is to inform deliberations among policymakers and
stakeholders on optimising roles of health cadres in the delivery of maternal and child health.
It summarises the best available evidence regarding the design and implementation of
policies for extending the roles of non-m...
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...
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....
Les dialogues sur les politiques permettent dexaminer les données de recherche parallèlement aux perspectives, aux expériences et aux connaissances tacites des personnes qui participent à la prise de décisions relatives à une question hautement prioritaire, ou qui sont touchées par de telles déci...
