Health research improves healthcare: Now we have the evidence and the chance to help the WHO spread such benefits globally

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hanney, Stephen R ^a   González Block, Miguel A ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANÁHUAC   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Assessing research benefits; Capacity building; Diseases of poorest countries; Global health; Global Observatory; Platforms for research implementation; Research expenditure; Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms; World Health Organization; World Health Report 2013

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GLOBAL HEALTH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84928715815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12961-015-0006-y     Document Type: Editorial

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