BACKGROUND Healthcare providers, managers and policy-makers in many jurisdictions are focused on a common goal: optimizing value and quality of care provided to their citizens within a resource envelope. Health technology reassessment is a structured, evidence-based assessment of the clinical, social, ethical and economic effects of a technology currently used in the healthcare system to inform...

The article focuses on the issue of highlighting approaches being tested in contemporary migration studies to demonstrate their limits – conceptual, methodological, and methodical as analytical tools. three most popular research perspectives, namely positivism, relativism, critical realism, are taken a basis. author substantiates idea that approach accumulates much broader context than just ins...

Bibliographical, exploratory and descriptive research, with a quantitative approach, aiming at identifying the occurrence of nursing studies about healthcare for the elderly and analyzing the production of this knowledge in five nursing journals published in 2005. The results show that the number of journals in this area is very limited, 3.7%. These journals are concentrated in the states of Sã...