Review article

Setting Priorities in Global Child Health Research Investments: Assessment of Principles and Practice

Igor Rudan ; The University of Edinburg Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland
Jennifer Gibson ; Department of Public Healt Sciences, Edinburgh Universizy School of Medicine, Edinburgh, Schotland
Lydia Kapiriri ; Join Centre for Bioethich, University of Toronto, Canada
Mary Ann Lansang ; University of rhe Philippines College of Medicine, Manila, Philippines
Adnan A. Hyder ; Department of International Health, Baltimore, USA
Joy Lawn ; Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa
Gary l. Darmstadt ; Department of International Health, Baltimore, USA
Simon Cousens ; School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Zulfigar A. Bhutta ; Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Karachy, Pakistan
Kenneth H. Brown ; Program in Internation and Community Nutrition, University of California, Davis, USA
Sonja Y. Hess ; Program in Internation and Community Nutrition, University of California, Davis, USA
Maureen Black ; University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
Julie Meeks Gardner ; Caribbean Child Development Centre, University of West Indies, Jamaica
Jayne Webster ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Ilona Carneiro ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Daniel Chandramohan ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Margaret Kosek ; Department of International Health, Baltimore, USA
Claudio F. Lanata ; Nutrition Research Institute, Lima, Peru
Mark Tomlinson ; Healt Systems Research, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Afica
Mickey Chopra ; Healt Systems Research, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Afica
Shanthi Ameratunga ; School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Harry Campbell ; Department of Public Health, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Shams El Arifeen ; Child Healt Unit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Robert E. Black ; Department of International Health, Baltimore, USA

Abstract

This article reviews theoretical and practical approaches to
priority setting in global child health research investments.
It also provides an overview of previous attempts to develop
appropriate tools and methodologies to define priorities
in health research investments. A brief review of the most
important theoretical concepts that should govern priority
setting processes is undertaken, showing how different perspectives,
such as medical, economical, legal, ethical, social,
political, rational, philosophical, stakeholder driven, and
others will necessarily conflict each other in determining priorities.
We specially address present research agenda in glob

Keywords

Child health; Research investments; priorities

Hrčak ID:

20923

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/20923

Publication date:

15.10.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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