Rural health research capacity building: an anchored solution

Evaluating Health Research Capacity Building: An Evidence-Based Tool

August 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 8 | e299 An increasingly important goal of governments and external agencies in developing countries is the need for “capacity building” in health research. Although a poorly defi ned and understood concept, capacity building would essentially enable de novo health research programmes to be facilitated and existing programmes to be strengthened (see [1] and page 1...

Capacity Building in Global Mental Health Research

Research-generated information about mental disorders is crucial in order to establish the health needs in a given setting, to propose culturally apt and cost-effective individual and collective interventions, to investigate their implementation, and to explore the obstacles that prevent recommended strategies from being implemented. Yet the capacity to undertake such research in low- and middl...

Building capacity in applied health services research.

The Australian Rural Health Research Collaboration: building collaborative population health research in rural and remote NSW.

The health problems faced by rural and remote communities are complex and not amenable to simple or short-term solutions. The Australian Rural Health Research Collaboration, which comprises rural research centres, area health services and policy makers in NSW, investigates these problems. Founded in 2002, it has grown to become the leading rural research collaboration in Australia. It aims to: ...

Capacity building in rural mental health in Western Australia.

A regional success story in capacity building in terms of workforce development in rural Western Australia is described. A rural and remote distance education program in mental health was delivered in 1999 across 10 rural sites to 31 health professionals (26 general nurses, four allied health and one Aboriginal health worker) who are in contact with mentally ill patients at the primary level in...