Actualmente en Colombia no existen lineamientos de carácter nacional diseñados para la atención diferencial en salud de la población habitante de calle, aunque se ha avanzado en plantear algunas recomendaciones relacionadas con cómo debería ser la atención integral a dicha población, y en el nive...
Within the last decades, social exclusion, disparities, and absolute poverty – almost 3 billion people living on less than US $2.00 per day – have grown despite globalization and rising per-capita income in many developing nations. Income ratios of the richest 20% of the population to the poorest 20%...
In most countries the pressure for health care reform is aimed at improving the efficiency, equity and effectiveness of the health sector. Emerging evidence shows that health care reforms can affect men and women differently, as a consequence of their different positions as users and producers of health ...
Variations in definitions used for “migrant” and for different groups of migrants in different areas can affect health systems’ policies and migrants’ access to health care. This systematic review explored this issue using evidence from academic peer-reviewed and grey literature in 169 publicatio...
The number of female migrants of childbearing age is rapidly increasing, which entails specific needs for maternal health services. Through a systematic review of the academic literature and a critical interpretive synthesis of policy frameworks, the authors of this review aimed to assess interventions a...
Over the last two decades, major gains have been made in global health: life expectancy has increased dramatically; polio eradication is tantalizingly within reach; six million more children survived until their fifth birthday; malaria deaths halved, while more than 20 million people living with HIV gain...
Without evidence-informed action, health-related Millennium Development
Goals as well as those of individual nations are unlikely to be achieved.
Health policies are influenced by a variety of factors – values and beliefs,
stakeholder power, institutional constraints, and donor funding flows, among
oth...
This report is intended to inform the deliberations of those engaged in developing policies
on sustainability of health knowledge translation initiatives policies as well as other
stakeholders with an interest in such policy decisions. It summarizes the best available
evidence regarding the design and im...
La présente note d’information stratégique vise à éclairer les parties concernées par la
faible adhésion des citoyens aux divers systèmes d’assurance maladie sur le marché
camerounais et propose trois options visant à améliorer l’accès équitable aux services
et soins de santé. Le syst...
Sudan health system is based on the district health system approach, which emphasizes
the principles of primary health care (PHC). Nevertheless, the decentralization of the
public sector resulted in more deterioration of the PHC system particularly in rural and
peripheral areas due to lack of financial r...