McMaster University has many excellent programs and
services in place to address student mental health needs.
These services are offered through the Student Affairs
office that is responsible for presenting McMaster
students with opportunities to “discover, learn, and
grow.”(4) Mental health services...
Most existing organizational models for knowledge brokering comprise
a set of design features that reflect an evolving effort, typically by
researchers and research organizations, to balance a variety of competing
objectives such as independence and relevance. These design features are
rarely selected to...
Improving end-of-life communication, decision-making
and care has been identified as a pressing health issue in
Ontario (and in Canada more generally), as evidenced
by recent research,(1;2) public opinion polls,(3) expert
panels and commissions,(4-6) and a high-profile legal
case,(7) which have revealed ...
There is a general lack of attention given to ‘what to do next’ to advance
knowledge brokering in many European countries’ health systems. Four sets
of interrelated issues can contribute to this problem within any given country’s
health system....
Ontario’s Action Plan for Health Care called for “right
care, right time, right place” (p. 10) and specifically for
“moving procedures into the community” (p. 13).(1)
To support the implementation of this commitment,
the ministry of health has taken several steps. The
ministry has supported one...
This policy brief contributes to the evidence base of policy development for scaling up
palliative care services across Uganda, particularly among population groups with ‘special
needs’, such as the poor, those living in rural areas, children or parents with life-limiting
diseases, the elderly, and t...
Is there enough evidence to show that increased household income and a better diet can improve children?s nutritional status? Drawing from a recent systematic review (Masset et.al.2011) of agricultural interventions aimed at improving the nutritional status of children, the key findings are: 1-Nutrition-...
Treating water can reduce the prevalence of diarrhoea by up to 70 percent. Although there are several inexpensive water treatment technologies available, statistics show that every 15 seconds a child dies due to waterborne diseases. Over 700 million people still lack access to safe drinking water. While ...
The purpose of this report is to inform deliberations among policymakers and stakeholders. It summarises the best available evidence regarding the design and implementation of policies for extending the use of non-medically trained primary health care workers to deliver cost-effective maternal and child ...
Uganda´s maternal mortality has moderately declined from 670 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 430 per 100,000 live births in 2008. This annual decline of 13 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births is unlikely to achieve the MDG target of 168 per 100,000 live births by 2015. The proportion of pregnant ...
