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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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) ...
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...
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...
