There is a knowledge translation gap between policies promoting equitable access to healthcare and person-centred care, the use of untrained interpreters in cross-cultural consultations leading disparities health outcomes. An 11 member inter-sectoral working group met at four workshops discuss agree on levers barriers provision trained settings Ireland. The process was informed by Participatory...

The issue of integrated care and inter-sectoral collaboration is on the health policy agenda in many countries. Yet, there is limited knowledge about the effects of the different policy instruments used to achieve this. This paper studies co-location as a driver for cross-sectoral collaboration with general practitioners (GPs) acting as coordinators in a municipal health centre. The purpose of ...

Background: In the Latin America and Caribbean region over 210 million people live below the poverty line. These impoverished and marginalized populations are heavily burdened with neglected communicable diseases. These diseases continue to enact a toll, not only on families and communities, but on the economically constrained countries themselves. Discussion: As national public health prioriti...

This paper investigates the effects of financial sector, product market, and trade reforms on labor productivity growth its two components—the intra-sectoral (within) inter-sectoral (between) components—in a sample developing countries over 1975–2005. The finds that most past trade, product, sector have increased rate productivity. In particular, are further away from technology leader tend to ...

BACKGROUND In the Latin America and Caribbean region over 210 million people live below the poverty line. These impoverished and marginalized populations are heavily burdened with neglected communicable diseases. These diseases continue to enact a toll, not only on families and communities, but on the economically constrained countries themselves. DISCUSSION As national public health prioriti...

As taxation is one of the key public policy domains influencing population health, and as there is a legal, strategic, and programmatic basis for health impact assessment (HIA) in Finland, we analyzed all 235 government bills on tax legislation over the years 2007–2014 to see whether the health impacts of the tax bills had been assessed. We found that health impacts had been assessed for 13 bil...