France and Australia announce the launch of a global action network on Nutrition labelling
France and Australia have, with the support of the Nutrition Decade Secretariat, invited countries to the inaugural meeting of the Global Action Network on Nutrition labelling, on 6th and 7th February 2019 in Paris, France. The goal of the Network is to encourage countries to accelerate efforts around nutrition labelling. We are firmly convinced that the adoption of nutrition labelling on food products will enable citizens to get comprehensive information about the content and composition of food products and help them make informe......
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Collective or shared leadership approaches have been associated with team performance outcomes in several sectors. Based on this evidence, there have been calls for more inclusive approaches to leadership in healthcare settings, but guidance on how to achieve collective leadership is lacking. This study synthesised knowledge of interventions to introduce collectivistic leadership in healthcare settings. The databases of PubMed, PsychInfo, ABI Inform, Cochrane and CINAHL and three grey literature databases were searched. Studies from any country ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore a change strategy for lean success in hospitals based on a comprehensive review of the Chinese literature. The methodology is a systematic review of the Chinese literature which identified 212 case study papers about lean implementation. We did a thematic content analysis of the 212 papers. Lean applications in Chinese hospitals show significant increases and are mainly used in the fields of outpatient services, operating rooms, pharmacy and logistics. Most hospitals applied lean as a single project but s ...

Improving the quality of healthcare: a cross-sectional study of the features of successful clinical networks Cette étude de 19 réseaux cliniques dans l’État de Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud en Australie s’appuie sur des entretiens avec 51 responsables. Les auteurs examinent les facteurs qui rendent les réseaux cliniques efficaces pour améliorer la qualité des soins et faciliter le changement à l’échelle du système. Trois réseaux ont eu un impact important sur la qualité des soins et sept sur le changement à l’échelle du systèm.. ...

Data and research on health including biotechnology, cancer, health care, health spending, health insurance, fitness, dementia, disability, obesity, smoking, genetics and mortality., This fifth edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. It also provides a series of dashboards to compare performance across countries, and a ...
To benefit from the increasing clinical evidence, organisational changes have been among the main drivers behind the reduction of ICU mortality during the last decade. Increasing demand, costs and complexity, amplifies the need for optimisation of clinical processes and resource utilisation. Thus, multidisciplinary teamwork and critical care processes needs to be adapted to profit from increased availability of human skill and technical resources in a cost-effective manner. Inadequate clinical performance and outcome data compelled us to design ...

Assistant practitioners have knowledge and skills beyond the level of traditional support workers, and work in many clinical settings. However, some assistant practitioners lack a clearly defined role and may be under-used due to issues around accountability and uncertainty about their purpose. This paper explores the assistant practitioner role from the perspectives of assistant practitioners and registered nurses. This study aimed to explore the role of the assistant practitioner from the perspectives of assistant practitioners and registered ...

In Germany and Chile, substitutive private health insurance has been shaped by its co-existence with statutory social health insurance. Despite differences in the way choice is available to users in the health insurance regimes of Chile and Germany, the way in which each country has managed choice between private health insurance and statutory social health insurance provides a unique opportunity to comparatively assess the consequences of such an arrangement that has been previously underexamined. We conducted a Most Similar Systems Design com ...

Bonjour Une étude, une confirmation et une question. L’étude a été commanditée par Fontem Ventures (groupe Imperial Brands) – et a été publiée le 3 septembre dans le Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health : The Value of Providing Smokers with Free E-Cigarettes: Smoking Reduction and Cessation Associated with the Three-Month Provision to Smokers of a Refillable Tank-Style E-Cigarette. Elle est signée par le Pr  Neil McKeganey (Centre for Substance Use Research, West of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow). Réalisée... ...