Resultados: 9

    Supporting parents in making informed decisions in relation to their children’s health needs

    Momentum for patient and caregiver engagement in health and social care is growing across Ontario.(1) This is evidenced by a number of recently released strategies and frameworks highlighting the importance of involving Ontarians in their own care as informed consumers of health and social services. One ...

    Effective care for high-need patients: opportunities for improving outcomes, outcomes, value, and health

    Today, 1 percent of patients account for more than 20 percent of health care expenditures, and 5 percent account for nearly half of the nation’s spending on health care (Figure S-1) (Mitchell, 2016). Improving care management for this population while balancing quality and associated costs is at the fo...

    Primary or specialist medical care: which is more equitable? A policy brief

    Equity in health and equitable access to healthcare has been at the core of health policy in India. The key policy challenge has been how to make that possible? Various health insurance schemes such as the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and Arogyasri seek to improve poor people’s access to specialist m...

    Síntese de evidências para políticas de saúde: melhorando o cuidado de adolescentes com doença falciforme
    Evidence synthesis for health policies: improving the care of adolescents with sickle cell disease

    A doença falciforme é uma das doenças hereditárias mais comuns no mundo. No estado de São Paulo, a incidência de doença falciforme é de um para quatro mil (1:4.000) nascidos vivos. Uma mutação no gene que produz a hemoglobina A origina, por meio de herança recessiva, a hemoglobina S (HbS). Em ...

    Examining the impact of drop-in centres

    The three reviews with evidence regarding the impact of drop-in centres were conducted recently. Two of the reviews (both of medium quality) focused on adult day centres for older adults,(10;11) and the third (a high-quality review) focused on interventions for promoting reintegration and reducing harmfu...

    Issue brief: developing a 'rapid-response' program for health system decision-makers in Canada

    A gap exists in efforts to support the use of research evidence between ‘self-serve’ approaches such as ‘one-stop shops’ for research evidence (e.g., Health Systems Evidence – www.healthsystemsevidence.org) and ‘fullserve’ approaches such as convening stakeholder dialogues with health-syste...

    Evidence Brief: organizing a care system for older adults in Ontario

    The health of the aging population has been identified as a high priority for the province of Ontario and has become one of the province’s most pressing health and social policy issues.(1) In addition, healthcare expenditures in Ontario now exceed 46% of the provincial government’s annual budget.(2) ...

    Issue brief: Addressing health and emerging global issues in Canada

    An increasing number of global issues have emerged as key determinants of health. Governments around the world are recognizing the importance of considering and acting upon these global issues as a way to protect and improve the health of their citizens. Specifically, these governments have started to re...

    Rol de la APS en el abordaje integrado para el manejo de las Enfermedades Crónicas no Transmisibles: opciones de políticas de salud en el contexto del sistema de salud del Paraguay
    Role of PHC in the integrated approach for the management of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases: health policy options in the context of the Paraguay an health system

    Las estrategias implementadas en las últimas tres décadas para incrementar la cobertura y acceso de comunidades excluidas a prestaciones de salud, se caracterizaban por una organización basada en programas verticales entregados en los establecimientos de salud de la red de servicios, de segundo y terc...