Where There Is No Health Research: What Can Be Done to Fill the Global Gaps in Health Research?

As part of a cluster of articles leading up to the 2012 World Health Report and critically reflecting on the theme of “no health without research," Martin McKee and colleagues examine the question of what to do to build capacity in the many countries around the world where health research is virtually non-existent.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2012-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001209PMID 22545025PMCID 3335864
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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