Ontario Health Quality Control (OHQC), Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Q monitor 2009 report on Ontario's health system [OHQC]. Toronto ON: Ontario Health Quality Control (OHQC), 2009.[Class: HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS]
Details
Some findings:
"Access to family doctors hasn’t improved since 2006 – 7.4 percent of adults in Ontario don’t have a family doctor and about half that number, or 400,000 people, are looking for a doctor, but can’t find one.
The large majority of patients who need cardiac procedures are today treated within the target time.
Half of patients needing cancer surgery (categorized as Priority 2) are not getting their surgery within the medically acceptable two-week timeframe. Some are waiting twice as long.
Waits for places in long-term care homes have doubled in the last two years, from 49 days to 106 days."
World Health Organization (WHO). The world health report 2008: primary health care now more than ever [WHO]. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization (WHO), 2008.[Class: HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS]
Details
Summary
"Why a renewal of primary health care (PHC), and why now, more than ever? Globalization is putting the social cohesion of many countries under stress, and health systems are clearly not performing as well as they could and should. People are increasingly impatient with the inability of health services to deliver. Few would disagree that health systems need to respond better – and faster – to the challenges of a changing world. PHC can do that.
In this report, WHO proposes that countries make health system and health development decisions guided by four broad policy directions. These four represent core primary health care principles:
1) Universal coverage
2) People-centred services
3) Healthy public policies
4) Leadership
With these four primary health care goals, national health systems can become more coherent, efficient, fair and vastly more effective."
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Health Indicators 2009. Ottawa ON: CIHI, 2009.[Class: STATISTICS - HEALTH]
Details
Kouzes JM, Posner BZ. The leadership challenge (4th edition). San Francisco CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2007.[Class: EDUCATION - FACULTY DEVELOPMENT- LEADERSHIP]
Look inside
McGaghie WC. AMEE Guide no. 43: Scholarship, publication, and career advancement in health professions education [Journal article: Medical Teacher 2009;31(7):574-590].
[Class: EDUCATION - FACULTY DEVELOPMENT]
Abstract
Sandars J. AMEE Guide no. 44: The use of reflection in medical education [Journal article: Medical Teacher 2009;31:685-695]. Informa Healthcare, 2009.
[Class: TEACHING]
Abstract
No comments:
Post a Comment