RESEARCH FOR HEALTH - PRINCIPLES, PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

This article describes the development of a health research strategy f or the control of diseases associated with poverty, tropical diseases (infectious as well as noncommunicable), diseases associated with affl uence, the treatment and care of the sick, and the delivery of health services. Since socioeconomic, technological and behavioural changes d etermine the process of health development, the severe constraints in financial, material and human resources must be addressed by promoting better methods of policy analysis, planning and research. Countries w ith very limited resources should give higher priority to research and services in nutrition, immunization and sanitation.