[EQ] Health and Medical Research in Canada

Health and Medical Research in Canada

 

Edward Nason
RAND Europe's Health Research System Observatory, 2008

 

Available online as PDF file [54p.] at:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/2008/RAND_DB532.pdf

 

This report provides an overview of health and medical research in Canada. The report is part of a series of country-specific reports available from RAND Europe's Observatory on Health Research Systems.

The report is divided into three parts:

- In the first part, the Structure of the Canadian Health Research System, including funding sources, sectors performing health
  and medical research, and health research priority setting, is presented.

- The second part, Processes and Performance of the Canadian Health Research System, focuses on the types of funding
   available and how funding activities are conducted, and provides exemplars of the system's performance.

- The third part presents an Outlook and considers current and emerging health research issues in Canada.

 

Summary: Key Points

􀁸 Funding by endowment; providing lump sums to research and funding from the interest on that sum as opposed to traditional research funding

􀁸 Prevalence of higher education field in funding research as well as performing research

􀁸 Focus on aboriginal health

􀁸 Translational activities; explicit focus on translating research to commercial gains through government funding

 

 

 

 

 

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