Research still a priority

Injury research advocacy a high priority.

Concussion research: a public health priority.

Head injury is a major public health concern due to the high incidence and the accompanying morbidity and mortality. In the USA, head injuries are a contributing factor to one third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths and result in 52 000 deaths, 275 000 hospitalisations and 1.4 million emergency department visits each year. While fully 75% of head injuries are classified as mild traumatic bra...

research priority of clinical linguistics in iran

conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...

Priority setting in research: user led mental health research

PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY Involving people in health research is increasingly recognised as being important to make sure that research is focused more on the needs of people who use health services. At present, ideas about what should be researched most often comes from researchers and/or health professionals like doctors and nurses rather than people with a lived experience of mental illness. In t...

Chronic kidney disease: a research and public health priority.

The growing global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide has been disregarded until recently by policy makers, major aid donors and academics. However, NCDs are the leading cause of death in the world [1–3]. In 2008, there were 57 million deaths globally, of which 63% were due to NCDs. These chronic diseases are the largest cause of death, led by cardiovascular disease (17 millio...