Accelerate health system renewal, says Health Council

Steps forward no guarantee that health targets will be met, council says.

progress in achieving the ambitious 10-year goals to strengthen health care set out by the country’s federal and provincial leaders in 2004, though it is too early to predict if those goals will ultimately be met, according to the Health Council of Canada. “If we were to use the analogy of a classroom, we are in the process of getting ready for a big exam in 2014 and, overall, the class is not ...

What the Council says about THE CHURCH

South Carolina Health Coordinating Council.

Pacific Health Research Council: health research by and for Pacificans.

The inaugural meeting of the Pacific Health Research Council (PHRC) was held at Sonaisali, Fiji 12-14 Oct 1998. It was attended by representatives of eight Pacific Island countries and five Pacific Island institutions. The organisation is designed to provide three levels of membership: Pacific Island countries; Pacific Island institutions; and individual Pacific Island researchers. An executive...

Placing health: neighbourhood renewal, health improvement and complexity

‘Placing Health’ is the first major publication to use complexity theory to understand the relationships between neighbourhood change, the emergence of states of health, and policy interventions managed using performance indicators. This is complemented by reviews of the international evidence base on area effects and neighbourhood change and is supplemented by new insights from the author’s ow...