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