Background Budgetary constraints with annual growth rates that peaked at 20% fuelled by the upcoming economic crisis demanded a change in the pricing model for pharmaceuticals in the Republic of Macedonia. Several neighbouring countries were faced with similar challenges, so the Republic of Macedonia carefully looked into their policies and thus introduced external reference pricing in 2011, wh...

The history and development of Ontario's new public health agency, Public Health Ontario, is explored. The governance model and organizational structure are identified along with an overview of the relationship with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The strategic mission and vision are described as are the key functions. The building of the organization through new investments ...

A 5-year strategic plan for Aboriginal health research and evaluation has been developed to support the NSW Ministry of Health in its efforts to create the evidence for what works in addressing the health disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. The plan has the following objectives: that all Aboriginal health policies and programs are evidence informed; that programs and strateg...

Lester M. Shulman, Ella Mendelson, Emilia Anis, Ravit Bassal, Michael Gdalevich, Musa Hindiyeh, Ehud Kaliner, Eran Kopel, Yossi Manor, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Daniella Ram, Danit Sofer, Eli Somekh, Diana Tasher, Merav Weil, Ronni Gamzu, and Itamar Grotto Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Services, Israel Ministry of Health, Sheba Medical Center, and Israel Center for Disease Control, Tel Ha...

1 Duzce University, Faculty of Business, Department of Health Institutions Management, Duzce, Turkey 2 Duzce University, The Vocational School of Health Services, Duzce, Turkey 3 Ministry of Health, Sakarya University Teaching and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey 4 Gulhane Military Medical Academy, The Vocational School of Health Non-commissioned Officer, Ankara,Turkey 5 General Secretariat o...

WPSAR Vol 2, No 4, 2011 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2011.2.4.008 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 1 a Offi ce of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, Health Science Division, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan Submitted: 20 October 2011; Published: 23 December 2011 doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2011.2.4.008 Public health response to the combined Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear p...

Affiliations: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium (W Van Damme, MD, MPH, K Hermann, MA, MPH); School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (GW Pariyo, MBChB, PhD); Department of HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi; Management Sciences for Health, Lilongwe, Malawi (EJ Schouten, MD, MPH); Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Con...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of various anthropometric evaluation methods for adolescent pregnant women in the prediction of birth weight. METHODS It is a cross-sectional study including 826 adolescent pregnant women. In the pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) classification, the recommendations of the World Health Organization were compared with that of the Brazilian Ministry of Hea...

introduction: non-integrated health information has forced health sector to utilize information and communication technology (ict). national health information infrastructure (nhii) integrates clinical and health information, decreases medical errors as well as costs, and increases patient’s safety. thus, this article aimed to review the feasibility of nhii implementation in iran from perspecti...