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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 
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Call for papers



Forum 11

Beijing, 29 October - 2 November 2007
Equitable Access: Research challenges for health in developing countries 

31 January deadline: receipt of abstracts 

Website: http://www.globalforumhealth.org/Site/004__Annual%20meeting/001__Forum%2011/002__Call%20for%20abstracts.php 

The Global Forum for Health Research invites you to submit an abstract for Forum 11 in any area of health research relevant to the overarching theme of Equitable Access: Research challenges for health in developing countries. 

Equitable access, the overarching theme of the Forum, begins with the recognition that all people are entitled - by virtue of their inviolable human rights - to have the opportunity to share in societal resources, to be treated with quality, dignity and respect, to actively participate in decision-making that affects them and to be fully included as active participants in society.

In recognition that violation of these rights and entitlements is one of the most basic risks to health and to inequities in health, sessions should examine how research can help to identify and address barriers to access of all types (including economic, geographical, institutional, political, sociocultural, technological) and identify measures that would ensure equitable access for all, especially groups that have experienced long-standing historical discrimination: women, disabled peoples, indigenous peoples, poor people, people from low-income countries, elderly people, children, people of low social class or caste, among others.

Suggested main thematic strands

1.       Improving understanding of and equitable access to basic preconditions for health through research (Access to health) 

2.   Innovation 
3.   Research resources: human, institutional, financial, informational 
4.   Research aspects of equitable access to decision-making and governance 
5.   Communication, includes research aspects of: the role of communication in equitable access to knowledge and information and to its management 

 

 
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