This report identifies extreme heat adaptation strategies that might be feasibly implemented before and during summer 2022, with a focus on vulnerable populations. Information for this report was collected through a rapid review of published and grey literature and summarizes the current evidence on strategy effectiveness and cost, as well as factors influencing implementation…
Long COVID has no commonly accepted case definition, but is characterized generally as the persistence of any COVID-19 symptoms past the typical convalescence period. Initial reports are emerging of significant ongoing symptom burden for some COVID-19 cases, but the prevalence and profile of these long-term cases, and the potential need for or utilization of community-based supports…
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) was commissioned by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society to provide a rapid update of the literature, to compare the impacts of public reporting and external benchmarking on selected outcomes, and to evaluate and describe the applicability of this body of research to non- competitive health systems, emphasizing perspectives and considerations…