The global health workforce stock and distribution in 2020 and …
Jun 26, 2022 · Objective The 2016 Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 projected a global shortage of 18 million health workers by 2030. This article provides an assessment of the health workforce stock in 2020 and presents a revised estimate of the projected shortage by 2030.Methods Latest data reported through WHO’s National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA) were extracted to ...
The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of …
Dec 9, 2020 · Introduction Person-centred care has become internationally recognised as a critical attribute of high-quality healthcare. However, the concept has been criticised for being poorly theorised and operationalised. Serious illness is especially aligned with the need for person-centredness, usually necessitating involvement of significant others, management of clinical uncertainty, high-quality ...
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The global health and economic value of COVID-19 vaccination
Sep 6, 2024 · Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic triggered one of the largest global health and economic crises in recent history. COVID-19 vaccination (CV) has been the central tool for global health and macroeconomic recovery, yet estimates of CV’s global health and macroeconomic value remain scarce.Methods We used regression analyses to measure the impact of CV on gross domestic product (GDP ...
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Family outcome disparities between sexual minority and …
Mar 5, 2023 · Background The number of children in sexual minority parent families has increased. This systematic review aims to synthesise the evidence of disparities in family outcomes between sexual minority and heterosexual families and to identify specific social risk factors of poor family outcomes.Methods We systematically searched PubMed, the Web of Science, Embase, the Cochrane Library and APA ...
Disparities in availability of new cancer drugs worldwide: 1990-2022
Oct 7, 2024 · Methods From a pharmaceutical intelligence database we identified new cancer drugs launched between 1990 and 2022. We calculated the number of new drugs launched in each country and the delay in launches. Using a multivariable linear regression and a Cox regression model with shared frailty, we examined the associations of the country’s Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, cancer ...
Rethinking international financing for health to better respond to ...
Nov 24, 2023 · International financing for health has been high on the political and global health agenda since COVID-19. The recent launch of the Pandemic Fund represents the first consolidated effort of the international community to mobilise additional voluntary financial resources for the purpose of strengthening global efforts in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR). Against such a ...
Building the evidence base for global health policy: the need to ...
Aug 12, 2021 · National public health institutes and WHO collaborating centres, and their global networks, are a key resource to support public health system strengthening with essential public health functions and generate evidence for health policy central to national health and socioeconomic development. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare global inequities in public health capacities, made urgent the ...
Kangaroo mother care for preterm or low birth weight infants: a ...
Jun 5, 2023 · Importance The Cochrane review (2016) on kangaroo mother care (KMC) demonstrated a significant reduction in the risk of mortality in low birth weight infants. New evidence from large multi-centre randomised trials has been available since its publication.Objective Our systematic review compared the effects of KMC vs conventional care and early (ie, within 24 hours of birth) vs late initiation ...