A new paradigm for health research funding.

NHMRC Health Research Partnership: Prevention of Older People's Injuries.

In April 1999, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) published the document Paradigm Shift: Injury from problem to solution. This document provided a comprehensive overview of the burden of injury in Australia, and the current status of injury research. Future directions for injury research were identified. Later that year the Health Research Partnerships in Injury Committee ...

A Niche for Infectious Disease in Environmental Health: Rethinking the Toxicological Paradigm

OBJECTIVE In this review we highlight the need to expand the scope of environmental health research, which now focuses largely on the study of toxicants, to incorporate infectious agents. We provide evidence that environmental health research would be strengthened through finding common ground with the tools and approaches of infectious disease research. DATA SOURCES AND EXTRACTION We conduct...

A New Economic and Social Paradigm for Funding Recovery in Mental Health in the Twenty First Century

Beyond access to medicines: Eliciting high–income country support for a new global health research and development paradigm

In recent decades, debates surrounding access to medicines have moved on to discussions on new ways of conducting research and development (R&D) to ensure equitable access from the outset. The market failure in the current R&D system and the need for new models has been apparent for decades [1,2]. A new framework for research and development to address health gaps primarily affecting low– and m...

Safety I to Safety II: A Paradigm Shift or More Work as Imagined?; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

In their editorial, Mannion and Braithwaite contend that the approach to solving the problem of unsafe care, Safety I, is flawed and requires a shift in thinking to what they are calling Safety II. We have reservations as to whether by itself the shift from Safety I to Safety II is sufficient. Perhaps our failure to improve outcomes in the field of patient safety and quality lies less in our ap...