Bernard Hope Taderera, Stephen James Heinrich Hendricks, Yogan Pillay. Health system reform in peri-urban communities: an exploratory study of policy strategies towards healthcare worker reform in Epworth, Zimbabwe. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 32219 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.32219 http://bit.ly/2hgTeqi
Noviembre 28 - Diciembre 3, 2016
Comment. Kabir Sheikh, Sanjiv Kumar, Rajani Ved, Satish Kumar, V R Raman, Abdul Ghaffar, Nhan Tran, Srinath Reddy, Soumya Swaminathan. India's new health systems knowledge platform—making research matter. The Lancet 2016,DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32391-1 http://bit.ly/2h16uzx
Shuang Lin, Liangmin Gao, Melissa Reyes, Feng Cheng, Joan Kaufman and Wafaa M. El-Sadr. China’s health assistance to Africa: opportunism or altruism? Globalization and Health201612:83
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0217-1 http://bit.ly/2fYbWhV
Ronald Wesonga, David Guwatudde, Silver K. Bahendeka, Gerald Mutungi, Fabian Nabugoomu and James Muwonge. Burden of cumulative risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases among adults in Uganda: evidence from a national baseline survey. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:195 http://bit.ly/2gm5B0L
Noviembre 21 - 27, 2016
Eduardo J. Gómez. Democratic transitions, health institutions, and financial protection in the emerging economies: insights from Asia. Health Economics, Policy and Law 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133116000293
Suchunya Aungkulanon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Kenji Shibuya, Kanitta Bundhamcharoen and Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong. Post universal health coverage trend and geographical inequalities of mortality in Thailand. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:190 http://bit.ly/2gx9YXK
Cuidados Paliativos
Rosalind Adam, Christopher D Burton, Christine M Bond, Marijn de Bruin, Peter Murchie. Can patient-reported measurements of pain be used to improve cancer pain management? A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Support Palliat Care 2016 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2016-001137 http://bit.ly/2gsO6is
Noviembre 14 - 20, 2016
Cristiano Siqueira Boccolini and Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Junior. Inequities in Healthcare utilization: results of the Brazilian National Health Survey, 2013. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0444-3 http://bit.ly/2frYp2l
Comment. Michael Marmot. Brazil: rapid progress and the challenge of inequality. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0465-y http://bit.ly/2g5mzQt
Comment. Cesar Victora. Socioeconomic inequalities in Health: Reflections on the academic production from Brazil. Journal for Equity in Health 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0456-z http://bit.ly/2gv1R1g
Comment. Celia Landmann-Szwarcwald and James Macinko. A panorama of health inequalities in Brazil. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:174 http://bit.ly/2fFT9vb
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior, Aline Pinto Marques, Wanessa da Silva de Almeida and Dalia Elena Romero Montilla. Inequalities in healthy life expectancy by Brazilian geographic regions: findings from the National Health Survey, 2013. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:141 http://bit.ly/2fPw1ry
Pricila Mullachery, Diana Silver and James Macinko. Changes in health care inequity in Brazil between 2008 and 2013. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:140 http://bit.ly/2g6wBEk
CORRESPONDENCE. Di McIntyre, Martin McKee, Dina Balabanova, Chris Atim, K. Srinath Reddy, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, 250 signatories, a full list of signatories is available in the appendix. Open letter on the SDGs: a robust measure for universal health coverage is essential. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32189-4 http://bit.ly/2feXwN0
Hannah Pieters, Daniele Curzi, Alessandro Olper, Johan Swinnen. Democratic reforms and health: interpreting causal estimates – Authors' reply. The Lancet Global Health 2016, http://bit.ly/2g5wTrz
Matthias Rieger, Natascha Wagner, Arjun S. Bedi. Universal health coverage at the macro level: Synthetic control evidence from Thailand. Social Science & Medicine 2016, http://bit.ly/2g6Izy0
Indrani Gupta, Samik Chowdhury, Shankar Prinja, Mayur Trivedi. Out-of-Pocket Spending on Out-Patient Care in India: Assessment and Options Based on Results from a District Level Survey. PLOS ONE 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166775 http://bit.ly/2eRLJpx
Noviembre 7 - 13, 2016
Jeannette Liliana Amaya-Lara. Catastrophic expenditure due to out-of-pocket health payments and its determinants in Colombian households. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0472-z http://bit.ly/2fNgPw4
Astrid Kiil, Jacob Nielsen Arendt. The effect of complementary private health insurance on the use of health care services. Int J Health Econ Manag. (2016). doi:10.1007/s10754-016-9195-3 http://bit.ly/2g5SUKS
Comment. Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Sebastián García-Saisó. Health inequalities: Mexico's greatest challenge. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31726-3 http://bit.ly/2em6zsz
Li Liu, Shefali Oza, Dan Hogan, Yue Chu, Jamie Perin, Jun Zhu, Joy E Lawn, Simon Cousens, Colin Mathers, Robert E Black. Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31593-8 http://bit.ly/2fpN0Rg
Veronika J Wirtz, Hans V Hogerzeil, Andrew L Gray, Maryam Bigdeli, Cornelis P de Joncheere, Margaret A Ewen, Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt, Sun Jing, Vera L Luiza, Regina M Mbindyo, Helene Möller, Corrina Moucheraud, Bernard Pécoul, Lembit Rägo, Arash Rashidian, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Peter N Stephens, Yot Teerawattananon, Ellen F M ’t Hoen, Anita K Wagner, Prashant Yadav, Michael R Reich. Essential medicines for universal health coverage. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31599-9 http://bit.ly/2fVxFeD
Stephen Kwasi Opoku Duku, Francis Asenso-Boadi, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Daniel Kojo Arhinful. Utilization of healthcare services and renewal of health insurance membership: evidence of adverse selection in Ghana. Health Economics Review 2016 6:43, DOI: 10.1186/s13561-016-0122-6 http://bit.ly/2d8Oguj
Ali H Mokdad, Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar, Farah Daoud, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ibrahim Khalil, Ashkan Afshin, Marwa Tuffaha, Raghid Charara, Ryan M Barber, Joseph Wagner, Kelly Cercy, et al. Health in times of uncertainty in the eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet Global Health 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30168-1 http://bit.ly/2bkTT7S
Eduardo González-Pier, Mariana Barraza-Lloréns, Naomi Beyeler, Dean Jamison, Felicia Knaul, Rafael Lozano, Gavin Yamey, Jaime Sepúlveda. Mexico's path towards the Sustainable Development Goal for health: an assessment of the feasibility of reducing premature mortality by 40% by 2030. The Lancet Global Health 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30181-4 http://bit.ly/2bEEUkL
Cuidados Paliativos
Ka Chi Cheung, Kwok Ying Chan, Desmond Y. H. Yap. Disenfranchised Grief after the Death of a Palliative Care Colleague. Journal of Palliative Medicine. Sep 2016, 19(9): 905-905. http://bit.ly/2cFxdwS
Anne L. Kinderman, Heather A. Harris, Ruth T. Brousseau, Pamelyn Close, Steven Z. Pantilat. Starting and Sustaining Palliative Care in Public Hospitals: Lessons Learned from a Statewide Initiative. Journal of Palliative Medicine. Sep 2016, 19(9): 908-916. http://bit.ly/2cSY9wN
Singer Adam E., Goebel Joy R., Kim Yan S., Dy Sydney M., Ahluwalia Sangeeta C., Clifford Megan, Dzeng Elizabeth, O'Hanlon Claire E., Motala Aneesa, Walling Anne M., Goldberg Jaime, Meeker Daniella, Ochotorena Claudia, Shanman Roberta, Cui Mike, and Lorenz Karl A.. Populations and Interventions for Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review. Journal of Palliative Medicine. September 2016, 19(9): 995-1008. doi:10.1089/jpm.2015.0367. http://bit.ly/2clzVcf
Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, Yanin Chavarri-Guerra, Tania Pastrana, Rossana Ruiz-Mendoza, Alexandra Bukowski, and Paul E. Goss. End-of-Life Care in Latin America. JGO 2016; DOI:10.1200/JGO.2016.005579. http://bit.ly/2clHeAs
Septiembre 05 - 11, 2016
Elizabeth Pisani, Maarten Olivier Kok, and Kharisma Nugroho. Indonesia's road to universal health coverage: a political journey. Health Policy Plan. 2016, doi:10.1093/heapol/czw120 http://bit.ly/2cO0cB9
Hilary Tolley, Wendy Snowdon, Jillian Wate, A. Mark Durand, Paula Vivili, Judith McCool, Rachel Novotny, Ofa Dewes, Damian Hoy, Colin Bell, Nicola Richards, Boyd Swinburn. Monitoring and accountability for the Pacific response to the non-communicable diseases crisis. BMC Public Health (2016) 16: 958. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3614-8 http://bit.ly/2cOlvD1
Silvia Stringhini, Terrence E. Forrester, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Estelle V. Lambert, Bharathi Viswanathan, Walter Riesen, Wolfgang Korte, Naomi Levitt, Liping Tong, Lara R. Dugas, David Shoham, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Amy Luke, Pascal Bovet. The social patterning of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in five countries: evidence from the modeling the epidemiologic transition study (METS). BMC Public Health (2016) 16: 956. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3589-5 http://bit.ly/2clYJRK
Cuidados Paliativos
Omar Shamieh, Odai Khamash, Mustafa Khraisat, Omar Jbouri, Mohammad Awni, Abdulrahman Al-Hawamdeh, Ghadeer Arja, Sawsan Ajarmeh, Dalia Al-Rimawi, David Hui. Impact of outpatient palliative care (PC) on symptom burden in patients with advanced cancer at a tertiary cancer center in Jordan. Supportive Care in Cancer 2016, doi:10.1007/s00520-016-3395-8 http://bit.ly/2cCu7sO
Agosto 21 - 28, 2016
Yinzi Jin, Zhiyuan Hou, Donglan Zhang. Determinants of Health Insurance Coverage among People Aged 45 and over in China: Who Buys Public, Private and Multiple Insurance. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161774.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161774 http://bit.ly/2bWPoOW
K. Hauck, S. Martin, P.C. Smith. Priorities for action on the social determinants of health: Empirical evidence on the strongest associations with life expectancy in 54 low-income countries, 1990–2012. Social Science & Medicine 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.035 http://bit.ly/2bW7u2G
Gbenga A. Kayode, Diederick E. Grobbee, Augustina Koduah, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Irene A. Agyepong, Evelyn Ansah, Han van Dijk, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch. Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana: impacts and challenges of health policies and programs. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 31907 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.31907 http://bit.ly/2bWiE7o
Karla I. Galaviz, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Olivia Manders, Deborah A. McFarland, Shifalika Goenka, Gabriela Torres-Mejía, K. Srinath Reddy, P. Rafael Lozano, Laura Magaña-Valladares, Dorairaj Prabhakaran & Mohammed K. Ali MBChB. The Public Health Leadership and Implementation Academy (PH-LEADER) for Non-Communicable Diseases. Health Systems & Reform 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2016.1224452 http://bit.ly/2bpuJ9J
Cuidados Paliativos
Marina Martínez, María Arantzamendi, Alazne Belar, José Miguel Carrasco, Ana Carvajal, María Rullán, and Carlos Centeno. ‘Dignity therapy’, a promising intervention in palliative care: A comprehensive systematic literature review. Palliat Med 2016, doi:10.1177/0269216316665562 http://bit.ly/2bZ3uOn
Shane Sinclair, Kate Beamer, Thomas F Hack, Susan McClement, Shelley Raffin Bouchal, Harvey M Chochinov, and Neil A. Hagen. Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients’ understandings, experiences, and preferences. Palliat Med 2016 doi:10.1177/0269216316663499 http://bit.ly/2bNWRPz
Hughes, N.D., Closs, S.J., Flemming, K. et al. Supporting self-management of pain by patients with advanced cancer: views of palliative care professionals. Support Care Cancer 2016, doi:10.1007/s00520-016-3372-2 http://bit.ly/2bOwNEU
Comment. Keefe, D., Al Garni, A., Villalon, A. et al. Challenges in supportive cancer care: perspectives from the Asia Pacific and Middle East. Support Care Cancer 2016, doi:10.1007/s00520-016-3381-1 http://bit.ly/2bOwKsY
Nicola White, Fiona Reid, Adam Harris, Priscilla Harries, Patrick Stone. A Systematic Review of Predictions of Survival in Palliative Care: How Accurate Are Clinicians and Who Are the Experts? PLOS ONE 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161407 http://bit.ly/2bprBKM
Sandsdalen, T., Grøndahl, V.A., Hov, R. et al. Patients’ perceptions of palliative care quality in hospice inpatient care, hospice day care, palliative units in nursing homes, and home care: a cross-sectional study. BMC Palliat Care (2016) 15: 79. doi:10.1186/s12904-016-0152-1 http://bit.ly/2bOyAtJ
Victoria Pillay-van Wyk, William Msemburi, Ria Laubscher, Rob E Dorrington, Pam Groenewald, Tracy Glass, Beatrice Nojilana, Jané D Joubert, Richard Matzopoulos, Megan Prinsloo, Nadine Nannan, Nomonde Gwebushe, Theo Vos, Nontuthuzelo Somdyala, Nomfuneko Sithole, Ian Neethling, Edward Nicol, Anastasia Rossouw, Debbie Bradshaw. Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Global Health 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30113-9 http://bit.ly/2bqDjSd
Rachel Sturke, Susan Vorkoper, Kalina Duncan, Marya Levintova, Mark Parascondola. Addressing NCDs through research and capacity building in LMICs: lessons learned from tobacco control. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 32407 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.32407 http://bit.ly/2b6Btry
Cuidados Paliativos
Shi-Yi Wang, Jane Hall, Craig E. Pollack, Kerin Adelson, Amy J. Davidoff, Jessica B. Long, and Cary P. Gross. Associations Between End-of-Life Cancer Care Patterns and Medicare Expenditures. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2016;14:1001-1008 http://bit.ly/2bCpjDd
Goldhagen, J., Fafard, M., Komatz, K. et al. Community-based pediatric palliative care for health related quality of life, hospital utilization and costs lessons learned from a pilot study. BMC Palliat Care (2016) 15: 73. doi:10.1186/s12904-016-0138-z http://bit.ly/2b6uCQf
Coelho, A., Parola, V., Escobar-Bravo, M. et al. Comfort experience in palliative care: a phenomenological study. BMC Palliat Care (2016) 15: 71. doi:10.1186/s12904-016-0145-0 http://bit.ly/2blR8Ch
Lewis, C., Reid, J., McLernon, Z. et al. The impact of a simulated intervention on attitudes of undergraduate nursing and medical students towards end of life care provision. BMC Palliat Care (2016) 15: 67. doi:10.1186/s12904-016-0143-2 http://bit.ly/2bqPvQT
Iliffe, S., Davies, N., Manthorpe, J. et al. Improving palliative care in selected settings in England using quality indicators: a realist evaluation. BMC Palliat Care (2016) 15: 69. doi:10.1186/s12904-016-0144-1 http://bit.ly/2b6uYWP
Oliveira L, Ferreira MO, Rola A, Magalhães M, Ferraz Gonçalves J. Deprescription in Advanced Cancer Patients Referred to Palliative Care. J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2016 Aug 5:1-5. http://bit.ly/2bvWATn
Agosto 01 - 07, 2016
Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Judith Westeneng, Ernst Spaan, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Irene Akua Agyepong and Rob Baltussen. Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016;15:116 http://bit.ly/2ag0Ohv
Shankar Prinja, Rakesh Gupta, Pankaj Bahuguna, Atul Sharma, Arun Kumar Aggarwal, Amit Phogat, and Rajesh Kumar. A composite indicator to measure universal health care coverage in India: way forward for post-2015 health system performance monitoring framework. Health Policy Plan. 2016, doi:10.1093/heapol/czw097 http://bit.ly/2b67Cxd
Cuidados Paliativos
Laura E. Miller, Scott A. Eldredge, and Elizabeth D. Dalton. “Pain Is What the Patient Says It Is”: Nurse–Patient Communication, Information Seeking, and Pain Management. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE 2016 as doi:10.1177/1049909116661815 http://bit.ly/2b9cIru
Kevin D. Stein, Kassandra I. Alcaraz, Chelsey Kamson, Elizabeth A. Fallon and Tenbroeck G. Smith. Sociodemographic inequalities in barriers to cancer pain management: a report from the American Cancer Society's Study of Cancer Survivors-II (SCS-II). Psycho-Oncology 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/pon.4218 http://bit.ly/2aQc2Ws
Julio 25 - 31, 2016
Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Judith Westeneng, Ernst Spaan, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Irene Akua Agyepong and Rob Baltussen. Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016;15:116 http://bit.ly/2ag0Ohv
Cuidados Paliativos
Danielle Fitzpatrick, Rebecca Heah, Simon Patten, and Helena Ward. Palliative Care in Undergraduate Medical Education—How Far Have We Come? AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE 2016, doi:10.1177/1049909116659737 http://bit.ly/2ayLiMp
Judith A. Paice, Russell Portenoy, Christina Lacchetti, Toby Campbell, Andrea Cheville, Marc Citron, Louis S. Constine, Andrea Cooper, Paul Glare, Frank Keefe, Lakshmi Koyyalagunta, Michael Levy, Christine Miaskowski, Shirley Otis-Green, Paul Sloan, and Eduardo Bruera. Management of Chronic Pain in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline. JCO 2016; DOI:10.1200/JCO.2016.68.5206 http://bit.ly/2aA0cnB
Pereira, J., Contant, J., Barton, G. et al. Implementing the first regional hospice palliative care program in Ontario: the Champlain region as a case study. BMC Palliat Care (2016) 15: 65. doi:10.1186/s12904-016-0131-6 http://bit.ly/2am8uOe
Julio 18 - 24, 2016
Diana KL Ngo, Tisamarie B Sherry, and Sebastian Bauhoff. Health system changes under pay-for-performance: the effects of Rwanda’s national programme on facility inputs. Health Policy Plan., 2016 doi:10.1093/heapol/czw091 http://bit.ly/2a3nsGp
Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Judith Westeneng, Ernst Spaan, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Irene Akua Agyepong and Rob Baltussen. Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. Aryeetey et al. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016; DOI 10.1186/s12939-016-0401-1 http://bit.ly/2ag0Ohv
Katarina Rosicova, Lucia Bosakova, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Martin Rosic, Marek Andrejkovic, Ivan Žežula, Johan W. Groothoff and Jitse P. van Dijk. Regional mortality by socioeconomic factors in Slovakia: a comparison of 15 years of changes. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:115 http://bit.ly/29SFThl
Cuidados Paliativos
Emily J. Cherlin, Amanda L. Brewster, Leslie A. Curry, Maureen E. Canavan, Rosemary Hurzeler, and Elizabeth H. Bradley. Interventions for Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates: The Role of Hospice and Palliative Care. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE 2016; doi:10.1177/1049909116660276 http://bit.ly/2a1rWzJ
Breffni Hannon, Nadia Swami, Ashley Pope, Natasha Leighl, Gary Rodin, Monika Krzyzanowska, Camilla Zimmermann. Early Palliative Care and Its Role in Oncology: A Qualitative Study. The Oncologist 2016; doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0176 http://bit.ly/29Uu7lN
Julia Berendt, Stephanie Stiel, Steffen T. Simon, Andrea Schmitz, Birgitt van Oorschot, Peter Stachura, Christoph Ostgathe. Integrating Palliative Care Into Comprehensive Cancer Centers: Consensus-Based Development of Best Practice Recommendations. The Oncologist 2016; doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0063 http://bit.ly/29R82ZL
Julio 11 - 17, 2016
Dorjdagva J, Batbaatar E, Svensson M, Dorjsuren B, Kauhanen J. Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia. Int J Equity Health. 2016 doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0395-8. http://bit.ly/2a4m3UG
Amarech Obse, Mandy Ryan, Sebastian Heidenreich, Charles Normand, and Damen Hailemariam
Eliciting preferences for social health insurance in Ethiopia: a discrete choice experiment. Health Policy Plan. 2016, doi:10.1093/heapol/czw084 http://bit.ly/29NNgKn
Stephani V., Opoku D. & Quentin W. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of mHealth interventions against non-communicable diseases in developing countries. BMC Public Health (2016) 16: 572. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3226-3 http://bit.ly/29BvhXU
Cuidados Paliativos
Anthony J. Caprio. Palliative care: renaming as supportive care and integration into comprehensive cancer care. CMAJ 2016, doi:10.1503/cmaj.160206 http://bit.ly/29Cq6Dj
David Hui, Maria Agustina Cerana, Minjeong Park, Kenneth Hess, Eduardo Bruera. Impact of Oncologists’ Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Care on Patients’ Access to Palliative Care. The Oncologist 2016; doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0090 http://bit.ly/29En68B
David Musyoki, Sarafina Gichohi, Johnson Ritho and Zipporah Ali. Integration of legal aspects and human rights approach in palliative care delivery—The Nyeri hospice model. ecancer 2016; DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2016.656 http://bit.ly/29puFAL
Zipporah Ali. Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care association: integrating palliative care in public hospitals in Kenya. ecancer 2016, DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2016.655 http://bit.ly/29GgtYn
Thembelihle Khumalo and Valerie Maasdorp. The Island Hospice model of palliative care. Ecancer 2016, DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2016.654 http://bit.ly/29yQVuu
Rachel Freeman, Emmanuel BK Luyirika, Eve Namisango and Fatia Kiyange. Interventions geared towards strengthening the health system of Namibia through the integration of palliative care. ecancer 2016, DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2016.653 http://bit.ly/29CUH6H
Emmanuel BK Luyirika, Eve Namisango, Eunice Garanganga, Lidia Monjane, Ntombi Ginindza, Gugulethu Madonsela and Fatia Kiyange. Best practices in developing a national palliative care policy in resource limited settings: lessons from five African countries. ecancer 2016, DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2016.652 http://bit.ly/29pdCxO
Naouma Siouta, K. Van Beek, M. E. van der Eerden, N. Preston, J. G. Hasselaar, S. Hughes, E. Garralda, C. Centeno, A. Csikos, M. Groot, L. Radbruch, S. Payne, J. Menten. Integrated palliative care in Europe: a qualitative systematic literature review of empirically-tested models in cancer and chronic disease. BMC Palliative Care 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12904-016-0130-7 http://bit.ly/29tVhjx
Junio 27 - Julio 03, 2016
Gandomkar A, Poustchi H, Moini M, Moghadami M, Imanieh H, Fattahi MR, Ayatollahi SM, Sagheb MM, Anushiravani A, Mortazavi R, Sepanlou SG, Malekzadeh R. Pars cohort study of non-communicable diseases in Iran: protocol and preliminary results. Int J Public Health. 2016 DOI 10.1007/s00038-016-0848-2 http://bit.ly/29bixVZ
Maureen Mackintosh, Amos Channon, Anup Karan, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Eleonora Cavagnero, Hongwen Zhao. What is the private sector? Understanding private provision in the health systems of low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00342-1 http://bit.ly/29ascKo
STATEMENT. Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Gary S Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T Grove, Daniel R Hogan, Margaret C Hogan, Richard Horton, Joy E Lawn, Ana Marušić, Colin D Mathers, Christopher J L Murray, Igor Rudan, Joshua A Salomon, Paul J Simpson, Theo Vos, Vivian Welch, (The GATHER Working Group). Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30388-9 http://bit.ly/29asOQi
Elesban Kihuba, Adrian Gheorghe, Fiammetta Bozzani, Mike English, Ulla K. Griffiths. Opportunities and challenges for implementing cost accounting systems in the Kenyan health system. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 30621 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.30621 http://bit.ly/29jTmm3
Tarundeep Singh, Pritam Roy, Limalemla Jamir, Saurav Gupta, Navpreet Kaur, D. K. Jain, Rajesh Kumar. Assessment of Universal Healthcare Coverage in a District of North India: A Rapid Cross-Sectional Survey Using Tablet Computers. PLOS ONE 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157831 http://bit.ly/29dnmzs
Junio 20 - 26, 2016
Jacob J. E. Koopman, David van Bodegom, Juventus B. Ziem, and Rudi G. J. Westendorp. An Emerging Epidemic of Noncommunicable Diseases in Developing Populations Due to a Triple Evolutionary Mismatch. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016 94:1189-1192; doi:10.4269/ajtmh.15-0715 http://bit.ly/1RTmV7e
Flatø H, Zhang H. Inequity in level of healthcare utilization before and after universal health coverage reforms in China: evidence from household surveys in Sichuan Province. Int J Equity Health. 2016, doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0385-x. http://bit.ly/28UNgUa
Patrick SW, Fry CE, Jones TF, Buntin MB. Implementation Of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Associated With Reductions In Opioid-Related Death Rates. Health Aff 2016 Jun 22. pii: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1496. http://bit.ly/28UM6bq
Junio 13 - 19, 2016
Bart Jacobs, Richard de Groot and Adélio Fernandes Antunes. Financial access to health care for older people in Cambodia: 10-year trends (2004-14) and determinants of catastrophic health expenses. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0383-z http://bit.ly/28JYQWA
Tim B. Heaton, Benjamin Crookston, Hayley Pierce and Acheampong Yaw Amoateng. Social inequality and children’s health in Africa: a cross sectional study. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0372-2 http://bit.ly/28JDwM9
J. P. Tripathy, B. M. Prasad, H. D. Shewade, A. M. V. Kumar, R. Zachariah, S. Chadha, J. Tonsing and A. D. Harries. Cost of hospitalisation for non-communicable diseases in India: are we pro-poor? Tropical Medicine & International Health 2016, DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12732 http://bit.ly/28Po8ST
Tara M Tancred, Meike Schleiff, David H Peters & Dina Balabanova. Health policy and systems research training: global status and recommendations for action. Bull WHO 2016, ID: BLT.15.162818 http://bit.ly/28OMVIt
Dani Filc and Nadav Davidovitch. Rethinking the private–public mix in health care: analysis of health reforms in Israel during the last three decades. J Health Serv Res Policy 2016, doi:10.1177/1355819616650470 http://bit.ly/28MM5HY
Pamela A. Juma, Shukri F. Mohamed, Jennifer Wisdom, Catherine Kyobutungi, Samuel Oti. Analysis of Non-communicable disease prevention policies in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Study protocol. Archives of Public Health 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s13690-016-0137-9 http://bit.ly/28NOKE4
Xiaohui Hou, Ian Anderson, Ethan-John Burton-Mckenzie. Pacific Possible: Health & non-communicable diseases. The World Bank, Background Paper June 2016, http://bit.ly/28PUi1t
Joseph L Dieleman, Tara Templin, Nafis Sadat, Patrick Reidy, Abigail Chapin, Kyle Foreman, Annie Haakenstad, Tim Evans, Christopher J L Murray, Christoph Kurowski. National spending on health by source for 184 countries between 2013 and 2040. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30167-2 http://bit.ly/23LWIjH
Joseph L Dieleman, Matthew T Schneider, Annie Haakenstad, Lavanya Singh, Nafis Sadat, Maxwell Birger, Alex Reynolds, Tara Templin, Hannah Hamavid, Abigail Chapin, Christopher J L Murray. Development assistance for health: past trends, associations, and the future of international financial flows for health. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30168-4 http://bit.ly/23CQqX5
Cuidados Paliativos
Matthew Allen Davis, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, Mousumi Banerjee and Julie P. W. Bynum. Identification Of Four Unique Spending Patterns Among Older Adults In The Last Year Of Life Challenges Standard Assumptions. Health Aff 2016 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1419 http://bit.ly/28JuHqe
News. Lindsay Martin and Mara Laderman. A Systems Approach Is The Only Way To Address The Opioid Crisis. Health Aff June 13, 2016 http://bit.ly/1sKzmhl
Sally Anstey, Tom Powell, Bernadette Coles, Rachel Hale, Dinah Gould. Education and training to enhance end-of-life care for nursing home staff: a systematic literature review. BMJ Support Palliat Care 2016 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000956 http://bit.ly/28QVSwf
M J Hjermstad, N Aass, F Aielli, M Bennett, C Brunelli, A Caraceni, L Cavanna, K Fassbender, M Feio, D F Haugen, G Jakobsen, B Laird, E T Løhre, M Martinez, M Nabal, A Noguera-Tejedor, K Pardon, A Pigni, L Piva, J Porta-Sales, F Rizzi, E Rondini, P Sjøgren, F Strasser, A Turriziani, S Kaasa , on behalf of the European Palliative Care Cancer Symptom study (EPCCS). Characteristics of the case mix, organisation and delivery in cancer palliative care: a challenge for good-quality research. BMJ Support Palliat Care Published 2016 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000997 http://bit.ly/28OTkBo
Peter Tanuseputro, Suman Budhwani, Yu Qing Bai, and Walter P Wodchis. Palliative care delivery across health sectors: A population-level observational study. Palliat Med 2016, doi:10.1177/0269216316653524 http://bit.ly/28Nvqrr
J. Kodela, M. Gugliucci, C. Farrell. End of Life Care Medical Education: 48 Hour Hospice Home Immersion Alters Students’ Lives. International Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2016, 7, 381-388 http://bit.ly/28MYUAE
Mary O’Brien, Jennifer Kirton, Katherine Knighting, Brenda Roe, Barbara Jack. Improving end of life care in care homes; an evaluation of the six steps to success programme. BMC Palliative Care 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12904-016-0123-6 http://bit.ly/28MQsCT
Joanna G. Katzman, Chris Fore, Snehal Bhatt, Nina Greenberg, Julie Griffin Salvador, George C. Comerci, Christopher Camarata, Lisa Marr, Rebecca Monette, Sanjeev Arora, Andrea Bradford, Denise Taylor, Jenny Dillow, Susan Karol. Evaluation of American Indian Health Service Training in Pain Management and Opioid Substance Use Disorder. American Journal of Public Health. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303193 http://bit.ly/28M8JBy
Patrick D Hoek, Henk J Schers, Jan C M Hendriks, Kris C P Vissers, Jeroen G J Hasselaar. Palliative care consultations in primary care: a cross-sectional survey among Dutch general practitioners. BMJ Support Palliat Care 2016 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000967 http://bit.ly/28Lw2be
Cindy Lo Kuen Lam, Vivian Yawei Guo, Carlos King Ho Wong, Esther Yee Tak Yu, and Colman Siu Cheung Fung. Poverty and health-related quality of life of people living in Hong Kong: comparison of individuals from low-income families and the general population. J Public Health 2016; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdw046 http://bit.ly/1Uj2Njh
Olivier Nay, Sophie Béjean, Daniel Benamouzig, Henri Bergeron, Patrick Castel, Bruno Ventelou. Achieving universal health coverage in France: policy reforms and the challenge of inequalities. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00580-8 http://bit.ly/1T44fpu
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, Jean-Pierre Dozon, Andrew Wilson, Jean-François Delfraissy, Jean-Paul Moatti. State humanitarian verticalism versus universal health coverage: a century of French international health assistance revisited. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00379-2 http://bit.ly/1UHpq39
Michael Marmot, Ruth Bell. Social inequalities in health: a proper concern of epidemiology. Annals of Epidemiology 2016, doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.02.003 http://bit.ly/1XXeDmc
Jochen Klenk, Ulrich Keil, Andrea Jaensch, Marcus C. Christiansen and Gabriele Nagel. Changes in life expectancy 1950–2010: contributions from age- and disease-specific mortality in selected countries. Population Health Metrics 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0089-x http://bit.ly/25s3WOb
Mayo 16 - 22, 2016
Ather Akhlaq, Brian McKinstry, Khalid Bin Muhammad, and Aziz Sheikh. Barriers and facilitators to health information exchange in low- and middle-income country settings: a systematic review. Health Policy Plan. 2016, doi:10.1093/heapol/czw056 http://bit.ly/1TrZvdA
John R Beard, Alana Officer, Islene Araujo de Carvalho, Ritu Sadana, Anne Margriet Pot, Jean-Pierre Michel, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, JoAnne E Epping-Jordan, G M E E (Geeske) Peeters, Wahyu Retno Mahanani, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Somnath Chatterji. The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00516-4 Publicado Octubre 2015 http://bit.ly/1svt7gZ
Canario JA, Lizardo J, Espinal R, Colomé M. Gaps in health research in the Dominican Republic.
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2016;39(4):179–85. http://bit.ly/1rZdA9f
Chi Huang, Chao-Jie Liu, Xiong-Fei Pan, Xiang Liu and Ning-Xiu Li. Correlates of unequal access to preventive care in China: a multilevel analysis of national data from the 2011 China Health and Nutrition Survey. BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:177 http://bit.ly/1U5VBEf
Mayo 23 - 29, 2016
Cindy Lo Kuen Lam, Vivian Yawei Guo, Carlos King Ho Wong, Esther Yee Tak Yu, and Colman Siu Cheung Fung. Poverty and health-related quality of life of people living in Hong Kong: comparison of individuals from low-income families and the general population. J Public Health 2016; doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdw046 http://bit.ly/1Uj2Njh
Olivier Nay, Sophie Béjean, Daniel Benamouzig, Henri Bergeron, Patrick Castel, Bruno Ventelou. Achieving universal health coverage in France: policy reforms and the challenge of inequalities. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00580-8 http://bit.ly/1T44fpu
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, Jean-Pierre Dozon, Andrew Wilson, Jean-François Delfraissy, Jean-Paul Moatti. State humanitarian verticalism versus universal health coverage: a century of French international health assistance revisited. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00379-2 http://bit.ly/1UHpq39
Michael Marmot, Ruth Bell. Social inequalities in health: a proper concern of epidemiology. Annals of Epidemiology 2016, doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.02.003 http://bit.ly/1XXeDmc
Jochen Klenk, Ulrich Keil, Andrea Jaensch, Marcus C. Christiansen and Gabriele Nagel. Changes in life expectancy 1950–2010: contributions from age- and disease-specific mortality in selected countries. Population Health Metrics 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0089-x http://bit.ly/25s3WOb
Cuidados Paliativos
Andrew S. Epstein, Holly G. Prigerson, Eileen M. O’Reilly, and Paul K. Maciejewski. Discussions of Life Expectancy and Changes in Illness Understanding in Patients With Advanced Cancer. JCO 2016; DOI:10.1200/JCO.2015.63.6696 http://bit.ly/1TFLOFD
Letter. Peter Hanlon and Stephen J Fenning. Palliative medicine and the diagnostic process: who is prematurely closing the door on whom? BMJ Support Palliat Care doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2016-001174 http://bit.ly/1OTqwCg
Sophie Schur, Dietmar Weixler, Christoph Gabl, Gudrun Kreye, Rudolf Likar, Eva Katharina Masel, Michael Mayrhofer, Franz Reiner, Barbara Schmidmayr, Kathrin Kirchheiner, Herbert Hans Watzke, on behalf of the AUPACS (Austrian Palliative Care Study) Group. Sedation at the end of life - a nation-wide study in palliative care units in Austria. BMC Palliative Care 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s12904-016-0121-8 http://bit.ly/20O0QgN
Mayo 16 - 22, 2016
Ather Akhlaq, Brian McKinstry, Khalid Bin Muhammad, and Aziz Sheikh. Barriers and facilitators to health information exchange in low- and middle-income country settings: a systematic review. Health Policy Plan. 2016, doi:10.1093/heapol/czw056 http://bit.ly/1TrZvdA
John R Beard, Alana Officer, Islene Araujo de Carvalho, Ritu Sadana, Anne Margriet Pot, Jean-Pierre Michel, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, JoAnne E Epping-Jordan, G M E E (Geeske) Peeters, Wahyu Retno Mahanani, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Somnath Chatterji. The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00516-4 Publicado Octubre 2015 http://bit.ly/1svt7gZ
Canario JA, Lizardo J, Espinal R, Colomé M. Gaps in health research in the Dominican Republic.
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2016;39(4):179–85. http://bit.ly/1rZdA9f
Chi Huang, Chao-Jie Liu, Xiong-Fei Pan, Xiang Liu and Ning-Xiu Li. Correlates of unequal access to preventive care in China: a multilevel analysis of national data from the 2011 China Health and Nutrition Survey. BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:177 http://bit.ly/1U5VBEf
Cuidados Paliativos
Doris Leung, Jan E. Angus, Tasnim Sinuff, Sherri Bavly, and Louise Rose. Transitions to End-of-Life Care for Patients With Chronic Critical Illness: A Meta-Synthesis. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE 2016, doi:10.1177/1049909116649986 http://bit.ly/1svoCD1
Julie A. Jacob. As Opioid Prescribing Guidelines Tighten, Mindfulness Meditation Holds Promise for Pain Relief. JAMA. 2016. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.4875 http://bit.ly/22ifePM
David Hui, Yee-Choon Meng, Sebastian Bruera, Yimin Geng, Ron Hutchins, Masanori Mori, Florian Strasser, Eduardo Bruera. Referral Criteria for Outpatient Palliative Cancer Care: A Systematic Review. The Oncologist 2016; doi:10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0006 http://bit.ly/1sHIQu5
Editorial. Arthur G. Lipman. Evolving Government Policy on Opioid Availability and Use Is a Double-edged Sword. Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 2016, DOI: 10.3109/15360288.2016.1173764 http://bit.ly/1TMerAx
Mayo 09 - 15, 2016
Aaron A. Abuosi, Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh, Joshua Yindenaba Abor and Edward Nketiah-Amponsah. Health insurance and quality of care: Comparing perceptions of quality between insured and uninsured patients in Ghana’s hospitals. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0365-1 http://bit.ly/1TbTizV
Kilian Nasung Atuoye, Siera Vercillo, Roger Antabe, Sylvester Zackaria Galaa, and Isaac Luginaah
Financial sustainability versus access and quality in a challenged health system: an examination of the capitation policy debate in Ghana. Health Policy Plan; 2016 doi:10.1093/heapol/czw058 http://bit.ly/1slnm68
Benjamin D Bray, Geoffrey C Cloud, Martin A James, Harry Hemingway, Lizz Paley, Kevin Stewart, Pippa J Tyrrell, Charles D A Wolfe, Anthony G Rudd, SSNAP collaboration. Weekly variation in health-care quality by day and time of admission: a nationwide, registry-based, prospective cohort study of acute stroke care. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30443-3 http://bit.ly/1Tggcs4
George C Patton, Susan M Sawyer, John S Santelli, David A Ross, Rima Afifi, Nicholas B Allen, Monika Arora, Peter Azzopardi, Wendy Baldwin, et al. Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00579-1 http://bit.ly/1rEaHKJ
Ali H Mokdad, Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar, Farah Daoud, Arwa A Mokdad, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Ryan M Barber, Joseph Wagner, Kelly Cercy, Hannah Kravitz, Megan Coggeshall, Adrienne Chew, Kevin F O'Rourke, Caitlyn Steiner, Marwa Tuffaha, Raghid Charara, Essam Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, Yaser Adi, Rima A Afifi, Hanan Alahmadi, et al. Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00648-6 http://bit.ly/1XjeGIE
COMMENT. Sabine Kleinert, Richard Horton. Adolescent health and wellbeing: a key to a sustainable future. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30297-5 http://bit.ly/1Www4eg
COMMENT. Shanthi Ameratunga, Simon Denny. GBD 2013: a window into the world of young people. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30296-3 http://bit.ly/1Td3msv
Gustavo Nigenda, Luz María González-Robledo, Clara Juárez-Ramírez and Taghreed Adam. Understanding the dynamics of the Seguro Popular de Salud policy implementation in Mexico from a complex adaptive systems perspective. Implementation Science 2016 DOI: 10.1186/s13012-016-0439-x http://bit.ly/1XqZeKB
Ole F. Norheim. Ethical priority setting for universal health coverage: challenges in deciding upon fair distribution of health services. BMC Medicine 2016 14:75 http://bit.ly/1VUn6qI
Cuidados Paliativos
David Casarett, Joan Teno. Why Population Health and Palliative Care Need Each Other. JAMA. 2016. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.5961 http://bit.ly/1TTBUlT
Kavita V. Dharmarajan, Randy Wei, Neha Vapiwala. Primary Palliative Care Education in Specialty Oncology Training: More Work Is Needed. JAMA Oncol 2016 doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.0763 http://bit.ly/1TcMS7i
Mayo 01 - 08, 2016
Rutstein SE, Price JT, Rosenberg NE, Rennie SM, Biddle AK, Miller WC. Hidden costs: The ethics of cost-effectiveness analyses for health interventions in resource-limited settings. Glob Public Health. 2016; DOI:10.1080/17441692.2016.1178319 http://bit.ly/1WdN8EY
Olivier Nay, Sophie Béjean, Daniel Benamouzig, Henri Bergeron, Patrick Castel, Bruno Ventelou. Achieving universal health coverage in France: policy reforms and the challenge of inequalities. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00580-8 http://bit.ly/1T44fpu
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault, Jean-Pierre Dozon, Andrew Wilson, Jean-François Delfraissy, Jean-Paul Moatti. State humanitarian verticalism versus universal health coverage: a century of French international health assistance revisited. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00379-2 http://bit.ly/1UHpq39
Angela M. Rose, Ian R. Hambleton, Selvi M. Jeyaseelan, Christina Howitt, Rhea Harewood, Jacqueline Campbell, et al. Establishing national noncommunicable disease surveillance in a developing country: a model for small island nations. http://bit.ly/1YeI01t
Frenk J, Gómez-Dantés O. Healthcare or sickcare: reestablishing the balance. Salud Publica Mex 2016;58:84-88. http://bit.ly/1T5F9tA
Cuidados Paliativos
François Chaumier, Licia Touzet, Sophie Olivereau, Donatien Mallet. Prevalence of Palliative Patients with Cancer Treatment and High Levels of Discomfort in a French Cancer Center: Is There a Paradox? Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2016, 19(5): 477-478. http://bit.ly/21HGXZZ
Jennifer Ballentine, Cordt Kassner, Ira Byock. Physician-Assisted Death Does Not Improve End-of-Life Care. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2016, 19(5): 479-480. http://bit.ly/24DpHqr
Nathan A. Gray, Jay R. Horton, J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Cardinale B. Smith, Kimberly S. Johnson. Update in Hospice and Palliative Care. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2016, 19(5): 559-565. http://bit.ly/24AIXbE
Mary Lynch. The Opioid Pendulum and the Need for Better Pain Care. Pain Med 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnw085 http://bit.ly/1Oi5X2e
Allende-Pérez S, Verástegui-Avilés E, Mohar-Betancourt A, Meneses-García A, Herrera-Gómez A. Integrated oncology and palliative care: five years experience at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico. Salud Publica Mex 2016;58:317-324. http://bit.ly/1UHNa7a
Abril 25 - 30, 2016
Editorial. Jha A, Godlee F, Abbasi K. Delivering on the promise of universal health coverage. BMJ 2016;353:i2216 http://bit.ly/1VVjx3b
Renmans D, Holvoet N, Orach CG, Criel B. Opening the ‘black box’ of performance-based financing in low- and lower middle-income countries: a review of the literature. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czw045 http://bit.ly/1SVBvCo
Larson E, George A, Morgan R, Poteat T. 10 Best resources on… intersectionality with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw020 http://bit.ly/24cOwgf
Amy Barnes, Garrett W. Brown, Sophie Harman. Understanding global health and development partnerships: Perspectives from African and global health system professionals. Social Science & Medicine 2016; doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.04.033 http://bit.ly/1O3WUlj
David Beran, Sigiriya Aebischer Perone, Gabriel Alcoba, Alexandre Bischoff, Claire-Lise Bussien, Gilles Eperon, Olivier Hagon, Olivia Heller, Frédérique Jacquerioz Bausch, Nicolas Perone, Thomas Vogel and François Chappuis. Partnerships in global health and collaborative governance: lessons learnt from the Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine at the Geneva University Hospitals. Globalization and Health2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0156-x http://bit.ly/1r6toGh
Cuidados Paliativos
Bouchra Haddou Rahou, Karima El Rhazi, Fatima Ouasmani, Chakib Nejjari, Rachid Bekkali, Ali Montazeri, Abdelhalem Mesfioui. Quality of life in Arab women with breast cancer: a review of the literature. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12955-016-0468-9 http://bit.ly/1X06Qng
Vincent Mor and Joan M. Teno. Regulating and Paying for Hospice and Palliative Care: Reflections on the Medicare Hospice Benefit. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2016, doi:10.1215/03616878-3620893 http://bit.ly/1WZTp6I
Gardiner C, Allen R, Moeke-Maxwell T, Robinson J, Gott M. Methodological considerations for researching the financial costs of family caregiving within a palliative care context. BMJ Support Palliat Care. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-001046. http://bit.ly/1Tc22oN
Abril 18 - 24, 2016
Wen Liu, Ying Liu, Peter Twum and Shixue Li. National equity of health resource allocation in China: data from 2009 to 2013. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0357-1 http://bit.ly/1VH1Pki
Ian Anderson, Bridget Robson, Michele Connolly, Fadwa Al-Yaman, Espen Bjertness, Alexandra King, Michael Tynan, Richard Madden, Abhay Bang, Carlos E A Coimbra Jr, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Hugo Amigo, Sergei Andronov, et al. Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00345-7 http://bit.ly/1VGW3zo
Peter Boone, Diana Elbourne, Ila Fazzio, Samory Fernandes, Chris Frost, Chitra Jayanty, Rebecca King, Vera Mann, Gilda Piaggio, Albino dos Santos, Polly R Walker. Effects of community health interventions on under-5 mortality in rural Guinea-Bissau (EPICS): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Global Health 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30048-1 http://bit.ly/1SVFbxB
Carlo Alcaraz, Daniel Chiquiar, María José Orraca, and Alejandrina Salcedo. The Effect of Publicly Provided Health Insurance on Education Outcomes in Mexico. World Bank Econ Rev 2016; Doi:10.1093/wber/lhw028 http://bit.ly/249hxG3
Jude Aidam and Issiaka Sombié. The West African Health Organization’s experience in improving the health research environment in the ECOWAS region. Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 DOI: 10.1186/s12961-016-0102-7 http://bit.ly/1qHgDSB
Cuidados Paliativos
Editorial. Scott A Murray, Iain R Murray. End of life care still not living up to public and doctors’ expectations. BMJ 2016;353:i2188 http://bit.ly/214iLR6
C. Nierop-van Baalen, M. Grypdonck, A. van Hecke and S. Verhaeghe. Hope dies last … A qualitative study into the meaning of hope for people with cancer in the palliative phase. European Journal of Cancer Care 2016, DOI: 10.1111/ecc.12500 http://bit.ly/247T7gj
Editorial. A persistent pain. The Lancet Neurology 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(16)30004-7 http://bit.ly/1U8N5t0
Perspective. Thomas R. Frieden and Debra Houry. Reducing the Risks of Relief — The CDC Opioid-Prescribing Guideline. N Engl J Med 2016; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1515917 http://bit.ly/1YWWGD7
Tan SB, Loh EC, Lam CL, Ng CG, Lim EJ, Boey CC. Psychological processes of suffering of palliative care patients in Malaysia: a thematic analysis. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2016; doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-001064. http://bit.ly/1VHfiZu
M. Horlait, K. Chambaere, K. Pardon, L. Deliens, S. Van Belle. What are the barriers faced by medical oncologists in initiating discussion of palliative care? A qualitative study in Flanders, Belgium. Supportive Care in Cancer 2016; DOI 10.1007/s00520-016-3211-5 http://bit.ly/1WLAzQQ
Ann-Kristin Ruhe, Julia Wager, Gerrit Hirschfeld and Boris Zernikow. Household income determines access to specialized pediatric chronic pain treatment in Germany. BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:140 http://bit.ly/1Simt7u
Marieke H.J. van den Beuken-van Everdingen, Laura M.J. Hochstenbach, Bert E.A.J. Joosten, Vivianne C.G. Tjan-Heijnen, Daisy J.A. Janssen. Update on Prevalence of Pain in Patients with Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.12.340 http://bit.ly/1U9lBn2
Abril 11 - 17, 2016
Mackenbach JP, Kulhánová I, Artnik B, Bopp M, Borrell C, Clemens T, Costa G, Dibben C, Kalediene R, Lundberg O, Martikainen P, Menvielle G, Östergren O, Prochorskas R, Rodríguez-Sanz M, Strand BH, Looman CW, de Gelder R. Changes in mortality inequalities over two decades: register based study of European countries. BMJ 2016;353:i1732 http://bit.ly/1QcboPL
Bredenkamp C, Buisman LR. Financial protection from health spending in the Philippines: policies and progress. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czw011 http://bit.ly/1TW0l46
Richard L, Furler J, Densley K, Haggerty J, Russell G, Levesque JF, Gunn J. Equity of access to primary healthcare for vulnerable populations: the IMPACT international online survey of innovations. Int J Equity Health. 2016; doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0351-7. http://bit.ly/1SjQhCv
von dem Knesebeck O, Vonneilich N, Kim TJ. Are health care inequalities unfair? A study on public attitudes in 23 countries. Int J Equity Health. 2016 ; doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0350-8. http://bit.ly/22zJl3S
Barroso C, Abásolo I, Cáceres JJ. Health inequalities by socioeconomic characteristics in Spain: the economic crisis effect. Int J Equity Health. 2016 doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0346-4. http://bit.ly/1W3V5eE
Joseph L Dieleman, Matthew T Schneider, Annie Haakenstad, Lavanya Singh, Nafis Sadat, Maxwell Birger, Alex Reynolds, Tara Templin, Hannah Hamavid, Abigail Chapin, Christopher J L Murray. Development assistance for health: past trends, associations, and the future of international financial flows for health. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30168-4 http://bit.ly/23CQqX5
Joseph L Dieleman, Tara Templin, Nafis Sadat, Patrick Reidy, Abigail Chapin, Kyle Foreman, Annie Haakenstad, Tim Evans, Christopher J L Murray, Christoph Kurowski. National spending on health by source for 184 countries between 2013 and 2040. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30167-2 http://bit.ly/23LWIjH
Chandrasekar D, Tribett E, Ramchandran K. Integrated Palliative Care and Oncologic Care in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2016;17(5):23. doi: 10.1007/s11864-016-0397-1 http://bit.ly/1SbGqcC
Abril 02 - 10, 2016
Gawain Heckley, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Gustav Kjellsson. A general method for decomposing the causes of socioeconomic inequality in health. Journal of Health Economics 2016, doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.03.006 http://bit.ly/1Ve9JB5
Kalipso Chalkidou, Amanda Glassman, Robert Marten, Jeanette Vega Yot Teerawattananon, Nattha Tritasavit, Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt, Andreas Seiter, Marie Paule Kieny, Karen Hofman & Anthony J Culyer. Priority-setting for achieving universal health coverage. Bull WHO 2016, ID: BLT.15.155721 http://bit.ly/1qz38oa
Cuidados Paliativos
Matthew A Jay, Richard F Howard. Inequalities in access to a tertiary children's chronic pain service: a cross-sectional study. Arch Dis Child 2016 doi:10.1136/archdischild-2015-310280 http://bit.ly/1NfvPuY
Julia Downing, Mwazi Batuli, Grace Kivumbi, Josephine Kabahweza, Liz Grant, Scott A. Murray, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Mhoira Leng. A palliative care link nurse programme in Mulago Hospital, Uganda: an evaluation using mixed methods. BMC Palliative Care 2016, DOI 10.1186/s12904-016-0115-6 http://bit.ly/1SFIyZV
Marzo 21 - Abril 01, 2016
Laura Ferguson, Daniel Tarantola, Michael Hoffmann & Sofia Gruskin. Non-communicable diseases and human rights: Global synergies, gaps and opportunities. GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH, 2016, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2016.1158847 http://bit.ly/1X6gT89
Khang YH and Kim HR . Socioeconomic Inequality in mortality using 12-year follow-up data from nationally representative surveys in South Korea. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0341-9 http://bit.ly/1UKTU4Z
Joanne Csete, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Michel Kazatchkine, Frederick Altice, Marek Balicki, Julia Buxton, Javier Cepeda, Megan Comfort, Eric Goosby, João Goulão, Carl Hart, Thomas Kerr, Alejandro Madrazo Lajous, Stephen Lewis, Natasha Martin, Daniel Mejía, Adriana Camacho, David Mathieson, Isidore Obot, Adeolu Ogunrombi, Susan Sherman, Jack Stone, Nandini Vallath, Peter Vickerman, Tomáš Zábranský, Chris Beyrer. Public health and international drug policy. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00619-X http://bit.ly/1Rkpcg4
Editorial. Health and happiness. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30062-9 http://bit.ly/1PNOHBf
Comment. Shifalika Goenka, Lars Bo Andersen. Our health is a function of where we live. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00348-2 http://bit.ly/1M8ftJL
Christine Goeppel, Patricia Frenz, Linus Grabenhenrich, Thomas Keil & Peter Tinnemann. Assessment of universal health coverage for adults aged 50 years or older with chronic illness in six middle-income countries. Bull WHO 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.163832 http://bit.ly/1M8iE4i
Juliet Iwelunmor, Sarah Blackstone, Dorice Veira, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Collins Airhihenbuwa, Davison Munodawafa, Ezekiel Kalipeni, Antar Jutal, Donna Shelley and Gbenga Ogedegebe. Toward the sustainability of health interventions implemented in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and conceptual framework. Implementation Science201611:43 http://bit.ly/1SJ5JFh
Donald C. Cole, Lot Jata Nyirenda, Nadia Fazal and Imelda Bates. Implementing a national health research for development platform in a low-income country – a review of Malawi’s Health Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative. Health Research Policy and Systems 2016;14:24 http://bit.ly/25D7Pxv
Cuidados Paliativos
Hamano J, Yamaguchi T, Maeda I, Suga A, Hisanaga T, Ishihara T, Iwashita T, Kaneishi K, Kawagoe S, Kuriyama T, Maeda T, Mori I, Nakajima N, Nishi T, Sakurai H, Shimoyama S, Shinjo T, Shirayama H, Yamada T, Morita T. Multicenter cohort study on the survival time of cancer patients dying at home or in a hospital: Does place matter? Cancer 2016; DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29844 http://bit.ly/22WOSqK
Editorial. Reforming international drug policy. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30115-5 http://bit.ly/1Sv16vH
Correspondence. Kejia Hu, Dehong Feng. Barriers in palliative care in China. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30017-4 http://bit.ly/1Y6tkB1
N.D. Volkow and A.T. McLellan. Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain — Misconceptions and Mitigation Strategies. N Engl J Med 2016; 374:1253-1263 http://bit.ly/1qlm35V
Marzo 14 - 20, 2016
Pedro Barros and Gisele Braun. Upcoding in a National Health Service: the evidence from Portugal. Health Economics 2016, DOI: 10.1002/hec.3335 http://bit.ly/1UpyeKZ
Akihito Watabe, Weranuch Wongwatanakul, Thaksaphon Thamarangsi, Phusit Prakongsai, and Motoyuki Yuasa. Analysis of health promotion and prevention financing mechanisms in Thailand
Health Promot. Int. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapro/daw010 http://bit.ly/1LwDF8s
Rotar AM, van den Berg MJ, Kringos DS, Klazinga NS. Reporting and use of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators at national and regional level in 15 countries. Int J Qual Health Care 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzw027 http://bit.ly/1pus3Zb
Wassink JT. Implications of Mexican Health Care Reform on the Health Coverage of Nonmigrants and Returning Migrants. Am J Public Health. 2016; doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303094 http://bit.ly/1TW38dW
Editorial. Addressing the social determinants of health in young people. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30004-6 http://bit.ly/1WxJ3c0
Carter K, Tovu V, Langati JT, Buttsworth M, Dingley L, Calo A, Harrison G, Rao C, Lopez AD, Taylor R. Causes of death in Vanuatu. Popul Health Metr. 2016 doi: 10.1186/s12963-016-0074-4. http://bit.ly/1UHvebV
Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset. Evidence for Health I: Producing evidence for improving health and reducing inequities. Health Research Policy and Systems 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12961-016-0087-2 http://bit.ly/21ArI3h
Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N. Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset. Evidence for Health II: Overcoming barriers to using evidence in policy and practice. Health Research Policy and Systems 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12961-016-0086-3 http://bit.ly/1RqML99
Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset. Evidence for Health III: Making evidence-informed decisions that integrate values and context. . Health Research Policy and Systems 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12961-016-0085-4 http://bit.ly/1XCdA8E
Sam Gnanapragasam, Amina Aitsi-Selmi, Elaine Rashbrook, Virginia Murray. Addressing noncommunicable diseases in disaster risk reduction – An issue of equity. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health 2016; doi:10.1016/j.jegh.2016.02.005 http://bit.ly/22prLVe
Marzo 08 - 13, 2016
James R Hargreaves, Catherine Goodman, Calum Davey, Barbara A Willey, Bilal Iqbal Avan, and Joanna RM Armstrong Schellenberg. Measuring implementation strength: lessons from the evaluation of public health strategies in low- and middle-income settings. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czw001 http://bit.ly/1UmPvmJ
Viewpoint. M. Lomazzi. A Global Charter for the Public’s Health—the public health system: role, functions, competencies and education requirements. Eur J Public Health 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw011 http://bit.ly/24W1Vag
George E. Dickinson. A 40-Year History of End-of-Life Offerings in US Medical Schools: 1975-2015. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE 2016; doi:10.1177/1049909116638071 http://bit.ly/1XjnjRg
Marzo 01 - 07, 2016
Jay Pan, Sen Tian, Qin Zhou, and Wei Han. Benefit distribution of social health insurance: evidence from china’s urban resident basic medical insurance. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czv141 http://bit.ly/1Sp6Zin
Pavitra Paul and Hannu Valtonen. Health inequality in the Russian Federation: An examination of the changes in concentration and achievement indices from 1994 to 2013. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:36 http://bit.ly/1VXataI
Nicole Britt Valentine, Gouke J. Bonsel. Exploring models for the roles of health systems’ responsiveness and social determinants in explaining universal health coverage and health outcomes. http://bit.ly/1U1bGyW
Gillian Lê, Rosemary Morgan, Janine Bestall, Imogen Featherstone, Thomas Veale, Tim Ensor. Can Service Integration Work for Universal Health Coverage? Evidence from Around the Globe. Health Policy 2016; doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.02.007 http://bit.ly/1QAmj7e
Cuidados Paliativos
Suzanne Rainsford, Roderick D MacLeod, and Nicholas J Glasgow. Place of death in rural palliative care: A systematic review. Palliat Med 2016 as doi:10.1177/0269216316628779 http://bit.ly/1oWYkI3
Van Beek K, Siouta N, Preston N, Hasselaar J, Hughes S, Payne S, Radbruch L, Centeno C, Csikos A, Garralda E, van der Eerden M, Hodiamont F, Radvanyi I, Menten J. To what degree is palliative care integrated in guidelines and pathways for adult cancer patients in Europe: a systematic literature review. BMC Palliat Care. 2016 Mar 3;15(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s12904-016-0100-0. http://bit.ly/1nn7QmG
Febrero 22 - 28, 2016
Agnes Millicent Kotoh and Sjaak Van der Geest. Why are the poor less covered in Ghana’s national health insurance? A critical analysis of policy and practice. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:34 http://bit.ly/1n1CMZF
Ronen Arbel and Dan Greenberg. Rethinking cost-effectiveness in the era of zero healthcare spending growth. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:33 http://bit.ly/1QkSdEG
Patricia D Biondo, Lydia D Lee, Sara N Davison, Jessica E Simon, and on behalf of the Advance Care Planning Collaborative Research and Innovation Opportunities Program (ACP CRIO). How healthcare systems evaluate their advance care planning initiatives: Results from a systematic review. Palliat Med 2016, doi:10.1177/026921631663088 http://bit.ly/1oEIIZN
Benjamin Uzochukwu, Chinyere Mbachu, Obinna Onwujekwe, Chinenye Okwuosa, Enyi Etiaba, Monica E. Nyström and Lucy Gilson. Health policy and systems research and analysis in Nigeria: examining health policymakers’ and researchers’ capacity assets, needs and perspectives in south-east Nigeria. Health Research Policy and Systems 2016;14:13 http://bit.ly/1QCnGkS
Editorial. Naoki Ikegami. Achieving Universal Health Coverage by Focusing on Primary Care in Japan: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Int J Health Policy Manag 2016, 5(x), 1–3 http://bit.ly/1VJk9Wt
Cuidados Paliativos
Fukiko Mikan, Makoto Wada, Michiko Yamada, Ayaka Takahashi, Hideki Onishi, Mayumi Ishida, Kazuki Sato, Sachiko Shimizu, Motohiro Matoba, and Mitsunori Miyashita. The Association Between Pain and Quality of Life for Patients With Cancer in an Outpatient Clinic, an Inpatient Oncology Ward, and Inpatient Palliative Care Units. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE doi:10.1177/1049909116630266 http://bit.ly/1LJLzFX
Letters to the Editor. Marcin Chwistek, Nicole Ewerth Opioids and Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors: Evolving Practice for Palliative Care Clinics. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2016;19(3): 254-254. http://bit.ly/1TIyuEy
Parag Bharadwaj, Karen M. Helfen, Leo J. Deleon, Douglas M. Thompson, Jennifer R. Ward, John Patterson, Sriram Yennurajalingam, Joe B. Kim, Kathie S. Zimbro, J. Brian Cassel, Aaron D. Bleznak. Making the Case for Palliative Care at the System Level: Outcomes Data. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2016;19(3): 255-258. http://bit.ly/1LivVGB
New INCB supplement on controlled medicines – a great tool for advocacy. http://bit.ly/209kv9C
Febrero 15 - 21, 2016
David Bardeya, Bruno Jullienb, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur. Health Insurance and Diversity of Treatment. Journal of Health Economics 2016; doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.01.003 http://bit.ly/1SEVTqn
Inês Campos-Matos, Giuliano Russo and Julian Perelman. Connecting the dots on health inequalities – a systematic review on the social determinants of health in Portugal. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0314-z http://bit.ly/1VsxsKC
Pablo A. Nuñez, Diego Fernández-Slezak, Andrés Farall, María Eugenia Szretter, Oscar Daniel Salomón, Claudia R. Valeggia. Impact of Universal Health Coverage on Child Growth and Nutrition in Argentina. Am J Public Health. 2016 Feb 18:e1-e7. http://bit.ly/20KbcgG
Cuidados Paliativos
Arif H. Kamal, Janet Bull, Steven P. Wolf, Diane Portman, Jacob Strand, and Kimberly S. Johnson. Unmet Needs of African Americans and Whites at the Time of Palliative Care Consultation. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE 2016; doi:10.1177/1049909116632508 COSTO http://bit.ly/1VrPg8C
Bowyer AV, Finlay I, Baillie J, Byrne A, McCarthy J, Sampson C, Snow V, Nelson A. Gaining an accurate reflection of the reality of palliative care through the use of free-text feedback in questionnaires: the AFTER study. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2016 doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000920. http://bit.ly/213nYwe
Alysson Wann, David Ashley, Mustafa Khasraw. Use of targeted therapy in cancer patients in the end-of-life period: results from an Australian centre. Supportive Care in Cancer 2016; DOI
10.1007/s00520-016-3124-3 http://bit.ly/20KcmZN
Febrero 08 - 14, 2016
Mirelman AJ, Rose S, Khan JA, Ahmed S, Peters DH, Niessen LW, Trujillo AJ. The relationship between non-communicable disease occurrence and poverty—evidence from demographic surveillance in Matlab, Bangladesh. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czv134 http://bit.ly/1nN4j1t
Alessandra Ferrario, Elena Chitan, Rita Seicas, Nina Sautenkova, Zinaida Bezverhni, Hans Kluge, and Jarno Habicht. Progress in increasing affordability of medicines for non-communicable diseases since the introduction of mandatory health insurance in the Republic of Moldova. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czv136 http://bit.ly/20MyUe7
Editorial. Frances E Baum. Health systems: how much difference can they make to health inequities? J Epidemiol Community Health 2016; doi:10.1136/jech-2015-207071 http://bit.ly/1Q0akF1
Barbara McPake, Giuliano Russo, David Hipgrave, Krishna Hort & James Campbell. Implications of dual practice for universal health coverage. Bull WHO 2016; doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.151894 http://bit.ly/1PpGvbq
Leo Pedrana, Marina Pamponet, Ruth Walker, Federico Costa, Davide Rasella Scoping review: national monitoring frameworks for social determinants of health and health equity. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 28831 http://bit.ly/1mj8DEA
Erik Blas, John E. Ataguba, Tanvir M. Huda, Giang Kim Bao, Davide Rasella, Megan R. Gerecke The feasibility of measuring and monitoring social determinants of health and the relevance for policy and programme – a qualitative assessment of four countries. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 29002 http://bit.ly/20yyqvC
Cuidados Paliativos
Fukiko Mikan, Makoto Wada, Michiko Yamada, Ayaka Takahashi, Hideki Onishi, Mayumi Ishida, Kazuki Sato, Sachiko Shimizu, Motohiro Matoba, and Mitsunori Miyashita. The Association Between Pain and Quality of Life for Patients With Cancer in an Outpatient Clinic, an Inpatient Oncology Ward, and Inpatient Palliative Care Units. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE doi:10.1177/1049909116630266 http://bit.ly/242t2QH
Sanders JJ, Robinson MT, Block SD. Factors Impacting Advance Care Planning among African Americans: Results of a Systematic Integrated Review. J Palliat Med. 2016;19(2):202-27. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2015.0325. http://bit.ly/1o7OJ1q
L. Rosenbaum. Falling Together — Empathetic Care for the Dying. N Engl J Med 2016; 374:587-590 http://bit.ly/1ZZij4u
Woan Shin Tan, Angel Lee, Sze Yee Yang, Susan Chan, Huei Yaw Wu, Charis Wei Ling Ng, and Bee Hoon Heng. Integrating palliative care across settings: A retrospective cohort study of a hospice home care programme for cancer patients. Palliat Med 2016; doi:10.1177/0269216315622126 http://bit.ly/1PJRxbF
Mota Vargas R, Mahtani-Chugani V, Solano Pallero M, Rivero Jiménez B, Cabo Domínguez R, Robles Alonso V. The transformation process for palliative care professionals: The metamorphosis, a qualitative research study. Palliat Med. 2016;30(2):161-70. doi: 10.1177/0269216315583434. http://bit.ly/1TfwfHu
Febrero 01 - 07, 2016
Mirelman AJ, Rose S, Khan JA, Ahmed S, Peters DH, Niessen LW, Trujillo AJ. The relationship between non-communicable disease occurrence and poverty—evidence from demographic surveillance in Matlab, Bangladesh. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czv134 http://bit.ly/1nN4j1t
Alessandra Ferrario, Elena Chitan, Rita Seicas, Nina Sautenkova, Zinaida Bezverhni, Hans Kluge, and Jarno Habicht. Progress in increasing affordability of medicines for non-communicable diseases since the introduction of mandatory health insurance in the Republic of Moldova. Health Policy Plan. 2016; doi:10.1093/heapol/czv136 http://bit.ly/20MyUe7
Editorial. Frances E Baum. Health systems: how much difference can they make to health inequities? J Epidemiol Community Health 2016; doi:10.1136/jech-2015-207071 http://bit.ly/1Q0akF1
Barbara McPake, Giuliano Russo, David Hipgrave, Krishna Hort & James Campbell. Implications of dual practice for universal health coverage. Bull WHO 2016; doi: 10.2471/BLT.14.151894 http://bit.ly/1PpGvbq
Leo Pedrana, Marina Pamponet, Ruth Walker, Federico Costa, Davide Rasella Scoping review: national monitoring frameworks for social determinants of health and health equity. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 28831 http://bit.ly/1mj8DEA
Erik Blas, John E. Ataguba, Tanvir M. Huda, Giang Kim Bao, Davide Rasella, Megan R. Gerecke The feasibility of measuring and monitoring social determinants of health and the relevance for policy and programme – a qualitative assessment of four countries. Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 29002 http://bit.ly/20yyqvC
Cuidados Paliativos
S. Kawaguchi, R. Mirza, R. Nissim, and J. Ridley. Internal Medicine Residents’ Beliefs, Attitudes, and Experiences Relating to Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study. AM J HOSP PALLIAT CARE, 2016; doi:10.1177/1049909116628799 http://bit.ly/20eYgz9
Abha A. Gupta, Janet K. Papadakos, Jennifer M. Jones, Leila Amin, Eugene K. Chang, Chana Korenblum, Daniel Santa Mina, Lianne McCabe, Laura Mitchell and Meredith E. Giuliani. Reimagining care for adolescent and young adult cancer programs: Moving with the times. Cancer 2016; doi: 10.1002/cncr.29834 http://bit.ly/1S5T7u2
Padmaja Ayyagari. Prescription drug coverage and chronic pain. International Journal of Health Economics and Management 2016; DOI: 10.1007/s10754-016-9185-5 http://bit.ly/23OADSA
Stefano Berterame, Juliana Erthal, Johny Thomas, Sarah Fellner, Benjamin Vosse, Philip Clare, Wei Hao, David T Johnson, Alejandro Mohar, Jagjit Pavadia, Ahmed Kamal Eldin Samak, Werner Sipp, Viroj Sumyai, Sri Suryawati, Jallal Toufiq, Raymond Yans, Richard P Mattick. Use of and barriers to access to opioid analgesics: a worldwide, regional, and national study. The Lancet 2016; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00161-6 http://bit.ly/1S610Q8
Julia Hackett, Mary Godfrey, and Michael I Bennett. Patient and caregiver perspectives on managing pain in advanced cancer: A qualitative longitudinal study. Palliat Med. 2016; doi:10.1177/0269216316628407 http://bit.ly/1PFIITG
Enero 25 - 31, 2016
Editorial. Teerawattananon Y, Luz A, Kanchanachitra C, Tantivess S; Prince Mahidol Award Conference secretariat. Role of priority setting in implementing universal health coverage. BMJ 2016;352:i244 http://bit.ly/20bCul7
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Kerry L. M. Wong, Ties Boerma and Cesar G. Victora. Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health: measurement approaches and challenges. International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016;15:18 http://bit.ly/20ylVg5
Bart Jacobs, Peter Hill, Maryam Bigdeli and Cheanrithy Men. Managing non-communicable diseases at health district level in Cambodia: a systems analysis and suggestions for improvement. BMC Health Services Research 2016; DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1286-9 http://bit.ly/1nui6do
Perspective. D.P. Alford. Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain — Achieving the Right Balance through Education. N Engl J Med 2016; 374:301-303 http://bit.ly/1QM6P3I
Rosenbaum L. Falling Together - Empathetic Care for the Dying. N Engl J Med 2016; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms1516444 http://bit.ly/1ZZij4u
Kimberley Widger, Stefan Friedrichsdorf, Joanne Wolfe, Stephen Liben, Jason D. Pole, Eric Bouffet, Mark Greenberg, Amna Husain, Harold Siden, James A. Whitlock, Adam Rapoport. Protocol: Evaluating the impact of a nation-wide train-the-trainer educational initiative to enhance the quality of palliative care for children with cancer. BMC Palliative Care 2016, DOI 10.1186/s12904-016-0085-8 http://bit.ly/1nE9Sjo
Enero 19 - 24, 2016
José Manuel Aburto, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Victor Manuel García-Guerrero, and Vladimir Canudas-Romo. Homicides In Mexico Reversed Life Expectancy Gains For Men And Slowed Them For Women, 2000–10. Health Aff 2016 35:88-95; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0068 http://bit.ly/22pZkE9
Eric A. Friedman. An Independent Review and Accountability Mechanism for the Sustainable Development Goals: The Possibilities of a Framework Convention on Global Health. Health and Human Rights Journal on JANUARY 20, 2016 · in VOLUME 18 NUMBER 1
http://bit.ly/1WC6Lnz
German Guerra, Elis Borde, V. Salgado de Snyder. Measuring health inequities in low and middle income countries for the development of observatories on inequities and social determinants of health. International Journal for Equity in Health 2016, 15:9 http://bit.ly/1neAkiF
Maria Carolina Borges, Leonardo Pozza Santos, Adriana Marchon Zago, Bruna Gonçalves Cordeiro da Silva, Shana Ginar da Silva, and Christian Loret de Mola. Socioeconomic development of cities and risk factors for non-communicable diseases: a comparative study across Brazilian state capitals. J Public Health, 2016 doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdv202 http://bit.ly/1Nqu1xL
J Frederik Frøen, Ingrid K Friberg, Joy E Lawn, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Robert C Pattinson, Emma R Allanson, Vicki Flenady, Elizabeth M McClure, Lynne Franco, Robert L Goldenberg, Mary V Kinney, Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Catherine Pitt, Monir Islam, Ajay Khera, Lakhbir Dhaliwal, Neelam Aggarwal, Neena Raina, Marleen Temmerman, The Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths Series study group. Stillbirths: progress and unfinished business. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00818-1 http://bit.ly/1ZIa6l7
Joy E Lawn, Hannah Blencowe, Peter Waiswa, Agbessi Amouzou, Colin Mathers, Dan Hogan, Vicki Flenady, J Frederik Frøen, Zeshan U Qureshi, Claire Calderwood, Suhail Shiekh, Fiorella Bianchi Jassir, Danzhen You, Elizabeth M McClure, Matthews Mathai, Simon Cousens, Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths Series study group, The Lancet Stillbirth Epidemiology investigator group Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00837-5 http://bit.ly/1neIA2b
Alexander E P Heazell, Dimitrios Siassakos, Hannah Blencowe, Christy Burden, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Joanne Cacciatore, Nghia Dang, Jai Das, Vicki Flenady, Katherine J Gold, Olivia K Mensah, Joseph Millum, Daniel Nuzum, Keelin O'Donoghue, Maggie Redshaw, Arjumand Rizvi, Tracy Roberts, H E Toyin Saraki, Claire Storey, Aleena M Wojcieszek, Soo Downe, The Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths Series study group, The Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths investigator group Stillbirths: economic and psychosocial consequences. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00836-3 http://bit.ly/1SCqncc
Vicki Flenady, Aleena M Wojcieszek, Philippa Middleton, David Ellwood, Jan Jaap Erwich, Michael Coory, T Yee Khong, Robert M Silver, Gordon C S Smith, Frances M Boyle, Joy E Lawn, Hannah Blencowe, Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Mechthild M Gross, Dell Horey, Lynn Farrales, Frank Bloomfield, Lesley McCowan, Stephanie J Brown, K S Joseph, Jennifer Zeitlin, Hanna E Reinebrant, Claudia Ravaldi, Alfredo Vannacci, Jillian Cassidy, Paul Cassidy, Cindy Farquhar, Euan Wallace, Dimitrios Siassakos, Alexander E P Heazell, Claire Storey, Lynn Sadler, Scott Petersen, J Frederik Frøen, Robert L Goldenberg, The Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths study group, The Lancet Stillbirths In High-Income Countries Investigator Group. Stillbirths: recall to action in high-income countries. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01020-X http://bit.ly/1V6BGHk
Luc de Bernis, Mary V Kinney, William Stones, Petra ten Hoope-Bender, Donna Vivio, Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Metin Gülmezoglu, Matthews Mathai, Jose M Belizán, Lynne Franco, Lori McDougall, Jennifer Zeitlin, Address Malata, Kim E Dickson, Joy E Lawn, The Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths Series study group, The Lancet Ending Preventable Stillbirths Series Advisory Group Stillbirths: ending preventable deaths by 2030. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00954-X http://bit.ly/1S0flhh
Comment. Caroline S E Homer, Address Malata, Petra ten Hoope-Bender. Supporting women, families, and care providers after stillbirths. The Lancet 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01278-7
May P, Garrido MM, Cassel JB, Kelley AS, Meier DE, Normand C, Stefanis L, Smith TJ, Morrison RS. Palliative Care Teams' Cost-Saving Effect Is Larger For Cancer Patients With Higher Numbers Of Comorbidities. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Jan 1;35(1):44-53. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0752. http://bit.ly/1kh5ynD
Joanne Hilden. It is Time to Let in Pediatric Palliative Care. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2016, DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25877 http://bit.ly/23kl0ly
Sandhya Maharaj, Richard Harding. The needs, models of care, interventions and outcomes of palliative care in the Caribbean: a systematic review of the evidence. BMC Palliative Care 2016; DOI 10.1186/s12904-016-0079-6 http://bit.ly/1WCGeGP
Enero 11 - 18, 2016
Sedona Sweeney, Anna Vassall, Nicola Foster, Victoria Simms, Patrick Ilboudo, Godfather Kimaro, Don Mudzengi and Lorna Guinness. Methodological Issues to Consider When Collecting Data to Estimate Poverty Impact in Economic Evaluations in Low-income and Middle-income Countries
Health Economics 2016;DOI: 10.1002/hec.3304 http://bit.ly/1RUJw7u
Yot Teerawattananon, Pritaporn Kingkaew, Tanunya Koopitakkajorn, Sitaporn Youngkong, Nattha Tritasavit, Patsri Srisuwan and Sripen Tantivess. Development of a Health Screening Package Under the Universal Health Coverage: The Role of Health Technology Assessment. Health Economics 2016; DOI: 10.1002/hec.3301 http://bit.ly/1lghoid
Hazel Squires, James Chilcott, Ronald Akehurst, Jennifer Burr, Michael P. Kelly. A systematic literature review of the key challenges for developing the structure of public health economic models. Int J Public Health 2016; DOI 10.1007/s00038-015-0775-7 http://bit.ly/1SnomAw
Isabelle Agiera, Antarou Lyb, Kadidiatou Kadiob, Seni Kouandab, Valéry Ridde. Endorsement of universal health coverage financial principles in Burkina Faso. Social Science & Medicine 2016; doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.017 http://bit.ly/1P5eyuC
Enero 01 - 10, 2016
Christiani Y, Byles JE, Tavener M, Dugdale P. Gender Inequalities in Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors Among Indonesian Urban Population. Asia Pac J Public Health 2016; doi:10.1177/1010539515626265 http://bit.ly/1VQT5Vv
Shamu S, January J, Rusakaniko S. Who benefits from public health financing in Zimbabwe? Towards universal health coverage. Glob Public Health. 2016; DOI:10.1080/17441692.2015.1121283 http://bit.ly/1OgPiM2
Kien VD, Van Minh H, Giang KB, Dao A, Weinehall L, Eriksson M, Ng N. Socioeconomic inequalities in self-reported chronic non-communicable diseases in urban Hanoi, Vietnam. Glob Public Health. 2016 Jan 4:1-16. http://bit.ly/1mLy5mO
Richard Mussa. Exit from catastrophic health payments: a method and an application to Malawi. International Journal of Health Economics and Management 2016;DOI 10.1007/s10754-015-9184-y http://bit.ly/1RpPSNW
Emily Vargas, Victor Becerril-Montekio, Miguel Gonzalez-Block, Patricia Akweongo, Cynthia Hazel, Maria Cuembelo, Felix Limbani, Wanderley Bernardo, Fernando Muñoz. Mapping the use of research to support strategies tackling maternal and child health inequities: evidence from six countries in Africa and Latin America. Health Research Policy and Systems 2016, 14:1 http://bit.ly/1TKs1pz
Margaret Chan. Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage. Health Systems & Reform 2016, DOI:10.1080/23288604.2015.1111288 http://bit.ly/1OSXvf9
Joseph Kutzin & Susan P Sparkes. Health systems strengthening, universal health coverage, health security and resilience. Bull WHO 2016; doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.165050 http://bit.ly/1PjN9PK