Global Health Research: Changing the Agenda  

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Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, page 285-292.
Topik: Global Health Research; New Health Research Agenda
Fulltext: Global Health Research Changing the Agenda.pdf (165.92KB)

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In the face of multiple, diverse and emerging global health threats, global health research has a central role to play in developing eff ective interventions and sustainable policies to deal with these challenges, especially in the context of reaching the targets set by the healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As recently stated, “research is a major driver of social and technological innovation that can lead to health and equity improvements through a knowledge-to-action process” (Coloma & Harris, 2009 ) and, through global health science, “we will never have a better opportunity to improve public health globally” (Farrar, 2007 ). Th e world today faces not only threats from pandemics of infectious disease, e.g. pandemic infl uenza H1N1, but has to contend with the emergence of resistance to antimicrobial agents, chronic diseases, an aging population, fragile health systems and the health impacts of globalization, e.g. those related to climate change, travel and migration, food insecurity, lack of clean water and the global spread of harmful lifestyles and substances. It is also a reality that it is the developing world that is bearing the brunt of the global disease burden.

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