The National Health Research Priority Areas:

1. Infectious Disease:

a. Tuberculosis
b. Diarrhoeal Disease
c. Respiratory tract infection
d. Hepatitis
e. Malaria
f. Japanese encephalitis
g. Kala-Azar
h. Filariasis
i. AIDS

2. Reproductive Health:

a. Safe Motherhood
b. Reproductive tract infections including STD and AIDS
c. Family Planning
d. Abortion
e. Genital Cancer

3. Child and Adolescent Health:

a. Neonatal Health
b. Early Childhood development
c. Child Abuse
d. Adolescent Sexuality and Adolescent Reproductive Health
e. Teenage Pregnancy

4. Nutritional Disease:

a. Protein-calorie malnutrition
b. Micro-nutrient Deficiency

5. Non-Communicable Disease:

a. Chronic Respiratory Diseases
b. Cardiovascular Disease
c. Cerebrovascular Disease
d. Cancer

6. Injuries and Accidents:

a. Road Traffic Accidents
b. Burns

7. Substance Abuse:

a. Alcohol
b. Tobacco
c. Drugs

8. Health Economics:

a. Cost Sharing
b. Public - Private mix
c. Health Insurance
d. Public Sector Spending

9. Mental Health:

10. Indigenous Medicine:

11. Disabilities:

a. Hearing Impairment
b. Visual Impairment
c. Mental Retardation
d. Physical Disabilities

12. Health Care Delivery System:

a. Efficiency
b. Coverage
c. Manpower Factors
d. Drug Supply System

13. Environment Health:

a. Safe Water Supply and Sanitation
b. Air and Domestic Pollution

14. Human Resource for Health:

a. Training of Appropriate Manpower
b. Development and Retention of Manpower

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Updated 2008-05-04.