The use of research results: at which stage are we in Brazil?

Health research can clearly make an important contribution to development and human wellbeing. The World Bank's 1993 World Development Report presented some convincing examples that investments in health research and development have yielded high returns in better health (1,2). Althought his fact has already been noticed, there is a common agreement, however, that the world's health research programs have only used, so far, a small portion of their potential contribution. In addition to the fact that, apparently, the investment in research in developing country health problems has probably been static or even declining over the past decade (2), there is a critical need also for good quality research. It is hard to believe that

• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina

• Publication date

  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1590/S1516-31801995000100002PMID 8578075
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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