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Health Systems Research is:
- problem and action oriented - it studies specific problems
to find feasible, practical and affordable solutions;
- participatory - requiring active and continuous
collaboration between those who identify the problems
to be studied, those who are the main potential users
of the research results (the health systems managers)
and those who search for the facts and suggest alternative
solutions (the researchers);
- multisectoral - deriving its inputs from various
social and economic sectors;
- multidisciplinary - requiring contributions from
a wide variety of disciplines, e.g. doctors, nurses,
epidemiologists, economists, social scientists, etc.
best obtained through a team approach (which in itself
presents technical and managerial challenges); and
- the methodologies used are replicable, they can be
applied to similar problems in different countries.
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