Informing the health policymaking process with the best available scientific evidence has become relevant to health systems globally. Knowledge Translation Platforms (KTP), such as the World Health Organization's Evidence Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet), are a recognized strategy for linking research ...
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic with rates having risen to alarming levels in both developed and developing countries. Chile has been no exemption, with sharp increases in obesity prevalence, especially among school-age children. This paper describes the policy actions and strategies impleme...
O Instituto de Saúde é uma instituição de ensino e pesquisa da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo, criada em 1969, que tem como missão “produzir conhecimento científico e tecnológico no campo da Saúde Coletiva e promover sua apropriação para o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas...
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...
In April 2017, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS concluded that the biggest internal threat to the sustainability of the NHS is the lack of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the NHS and care system the workforce it needs. This briefing, and its two s...
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...
: Adverse events associated with
medications are under-reported in postmarketing
surveillance systems. A systematic review of published
data from 37 studies worldwide (including Canada)
found the median under-reporting rate of adverse
events to be 94% in spontaneous reporting systems.
This scoping review...
Para prevenção de quedas, lesões, queimaduras e envenenamento entre crianças e adolescentes é possível realizar atividades educativas e campanhas que orientem adultos/cuidadores a respeito de medidas preventivas a serem adotadas. Essas orientações tendem a ser mais efetivas se acompanhadas de ins...
This review focuses on existing immunization policies and practices for migrants and refugees and provides an overview of barriers and facilitators for access to and utilization of immunization services. Evidence was obtained by a scoping review of academic and grey literature in English and a further 11...
Purpose: The WHO’s Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) has supported Member States in designing, implementing and institutionalizing efforts to support evidence-informed policy-making (EIP). This experience has shown the importance of systematically and comprehensively identifying important cont...
