Place: Sudan

Organization: Ministry of Health, Research Directorate

Description: It has long been recognised that strategies for strengthening health research can help in decreasing the growing inequities in health. However global efforts remain fragmented, and are often duplicated and grossly inadequate. There is a growing recognition that a systems approach to health research might be better able to harness some of the ongoing efforts and avoid duplication and fragmentation. The concept of health research systems is a relatively new concept and many ideas need to be discussed, thought through and defined before global actions can be suggested. The International Workshop on Health Research Systems, held in Cha’am, Thailand attempted to clarify some of these concepts and also proposed some actions that countries might take at the national, regional and global level. This publication presents a synthesis of the ideas articulated at that workshop by participants from 16 countries. It is hoped that this book will be useful to health researchers, policy makers, managers of health research councils, research funders, voluntary organisations involved in health research and in fact anybody involved in health research.

The Document can be downloaded from the WHO website at: www.who.int/rpc/pdf/ChaamDoc.pdf

Date: 1999

Page Number: 4

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