Insights in Public Health: Capacity Building Using a Bi-Directional Model: University of Hawaia??i at Manoa and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - Santa Cruz Campus

摘要

Health research is essential to improving population health, including by improving health service organization and delivery. However, global inequalities in health research capacity exist. In countries where there is substantial need for health improvements and health services, there is often insufficient infrastructure, money, and human capacity to develop such research assets.1 This phenomenon is known as the 90/10 gap, where 90% of the health research products are from countries with 10% of the world's problems.2.