Regional Consultation on Injury Prevention and Injury Surveillance System Muscat 1618 May 2005

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Regional Consultation on Injury Prevention and
Injury Surveillance SystemMuscat 16-18 May 2005

• Research Priorities in Injury Prevention and
  Control in EMRO
• Abdul Ghaffar
• Health Policy and Systems Specialist

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Presentation

• Why injuries are important?
• Why research?
• Why, how and what could research priorities be
  for EMRO?

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Why injuries are important?

• Leading cause of death and disability
• Significant financial loss to the society
• Preventable burden on national health services

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Why research?

• Research new knowledge technologies
• Biomedical
• Health policy and systems
• Social science and behavioral research
• Transport and road research

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Why Research.

• Health plays a vital role in development
• Not enough is spent on health and health research
• Not enough is spent on health research for the
  need of developing countries
• About 10 of resources for health research spent
  on 90 of world's health problem

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Why research..

• Difficulty of translating promising product
• cultural sensitivities
• affordability
• application to the local environment

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Why research..

• Synthesis of available information/sharing good
  practices
• Search for new knowledge
• Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
• Willing is not enough we must do.
• (Goethe)

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US patents, GDP per capita, and US patents per
GDP/Capita (2003)
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Numerical and percent increases in the number of
papers among the 1 most highly sited papers
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Relative economic strength and indigenous
capacity in science and technology of different
countries
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Why, how and what research priorities

• In view of the competing priorities for scare
  health research funds, priority setting for
  health research is as critical as conducting the
  research itself
• ENHR
• Five Step Process of the Ad Hoc Committee
• CAM

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Combined Approach Matrix

• Objective is to incorporate both the public
  health and the institutional dimensions
• Helps to classify, organize and present the large
  body of information
• Identifies gaps in health research
• Identifies health research priorities

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Examples of Application of CAM

• Institutions and national governments
• IMRC and MOH Pakistan
• Programs
• TDR, NCD Action Plan in Pakistan
• Diseases
• Malaria, TB, Schizophrenia
• Risk factors
• Indoor Air Pollution

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CAM
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• All diseases have two causes, one pathological,
  the other political
• (Rudolf Virchow)

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I think you should be more explicit here in step
two.