[EQ] Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries

Report on Forum 11. Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries

 

Global Forum for Health Research, 2008

 

Available online as PDF file at: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/filesupld/forum11/Forum11_Report.pdf

 

This Forum 11 report provides an overview and synthesis of the key issues discussed and conclusions reached in 2007, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Organized at the invitation of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, it drew 620 participants from close to 80 countries to discuss research issues, best practices and gaps in securing equitable access to health.

 

Contents

Introduction

The need for evidence

The biggest developing country in the world

The need for coherence

Chapter 1 – The broader determinants of health

The impact of poverty

No evidence that globalization has helped the poor

Tuberculosis in China: a globalization lesson?

Tobacco use: cause of mortality, morbidity – and poverty

The importance of gender

Uncovering domestic violence

Will research decrease maternal deaths?

Political determinants

The complexity of health worker migration

How Sultanabad got its sewer line

Chapter 2 – Innovation and its impact

Patents: another track, another voice

Verbal autopsy and AIDS

Primary health care’s rejuvenation

Chapter 3 – Zeroing in on health systems

How to measure what is not clear

A financial assessment

The research/policy interface

Learning from policies and products: HPV-HIV vaccines

China’s health system reform

Chapter 4 – The information gap

Mortality statistics: unreliable, incomplete, lacking

SARStrans: sharing limited knowledge

Information for advocacy?

Barriers to health journalism

Chapter 5 – The future of research

Chapter 6 – Reflections

Afterword: search and research

 

The Forum 11 Report includes a user-friendly CD-ROM that features the FORUM 11 final meeting documents.

Order hard copy here: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/hide/common/forms/orderpub/orderform.php

 

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