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标题：Mapping global health research investments, time for new thinking - A Babel Fish for research data
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作者：Robert F Terry ; Liz Allen ; Charles A Gardner 等
期刊名称：Health Research Policy and Systems
印刷版ISSN：1478-4505
电子版ISSN：1478-4505
出版年度：2012
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：28
DOI：10.1186/1478-4505-10-28
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Today we have an incomplete picture of how much the world is spending on health and disease-related research and development (R&D). As such it is difficult to align, or even begin to coordinate, health R&D investments with international public health priorities. Current efforts to track and map global health research investments are complex, resource-intensive, and caveat-laden. An ideal situation would be for all research funding to be classified using a set of common standards and definitions. However, the adoption of such a standard by everyone is not a realistic, pragmatic or even necessary goal. It is time for new thinking informed by the innovations in automated online translation - e.g. Yahoo's Babel Fish. We propose a feasibility study to develop a system that can translate and map the diverse research classification systems into a common standard, allowing the targeting of scarce research investments to where they are needed most.
关键词：Translation System ; Common Standard ; Health System Research ; Resource Flow ; Strategic Investment