Nursing research part3

What is Health Research?
•Research is simply defined as; systematic collection describing analyzing and interpretation of data to improve the health of individual or group of people .
•It is often loosely remarked that research means searching again for what is already known.
•Research provides a means to enhance ones knowledge, to broaden ones intellectual horizon, to develop new techniques and technologies to solve problems, to encourage self reliance and confidence and on a more philosophical level a path to search for truth ..
WHO strategy on research for health The WHO strategy on research for health was adopted at the sixty-third WHA in 2010. The vision of the WHO strategy on research for health is that decisions and actions to improve health and enhance health equity are grounded in evidence from research. Five interrelated goals have been defined to enable WHO to achieve this vision : • Organization – this involves the strengthening of the research culture across WHO. • Priorities – this concerns the reinforcement of research (at national, regional and global levels, and within WHO) in response to priority health needs. • Capacity – this relates to the provision of support to the strengthening of national systems for health research. • Standards – this concerns the promotion of good practice in research, drawing on WHO’s core function of setting norms and standards. • Translation – this involves the strengthening of links between the policy, practice and products of research.
WHO strategy on research for health The WHO strategy on research for health was adopted at the sixty-third WHA in 2010. The vision of the WHO strategy on research for health is that decisions and actions to improve health and enhance health equity are grounded in evidence from research. Five interrelated goals have been defined to enable WHO to achieve this vision : • Organization – this involves the strengthening of the research culture across WHO. • Priorities – this concerns the reinforcement of research (at national, regional and global levels, and within WHO) in response to priority health needs. • Capacity – this relates to the provision of support to the strengthening of national systems for health research. • Standards – this concerns the promotion of good practice in research, drawing on WHO’s core function of setting norms and standards. • Translation – this involves the strengthening of links between the policy, practice and products of research.