Social Research on Neglected Diseases of Poverty Continuing and Emerging Themes 英文参考文献.docVIP

Review SocialResearchonNeglectedDiseasesofPoverty: ContinuingandEmergingThemes LenoreManderson1*,JensAagaard-Hansen2,PascaleAllotey3,MargaretGyapong4 ,Johannes Sommerfeld5 1FacultyofMedicine,NursingandHealthSciences,MonashUniversity,Clayton,Victoria,Australia,2DBL-CentreforHealthResearchandDevelopment,Universityof Copenhagen,Copenhagen,Denmark,3CentreforPublicHealthResearchSchoolofHealthSciencesandSocialCare,BrunelUniversity,WestLondon,Uxbridge,United Kingdom,4DodowaHealthResearchCentre,GhanaHealthServices,Dodowa,GreaterAccraRegion,Ghana,5UNICEF/UNDP/WorldBank/WHOSpecialProgrammefor ResearchandTraininginTropicalDiseases(TDR),WorldHealthOrganization,Geneva,Switzerland Introduction (e.g., malnutrition, malaria, diarrheal diseases, and violence). These vulnerable populations tend to lack the power to draw attention from decision makers to their problems and to attract resources, and national resources tend to be directed to high prevalence, epidemic conditions at the expense of endemic diseases. NTDs also attract little research nationally or interna- tionally, and virtually no investment or commercially based researchanddevelopmentinwealthyresearchsettings[2]. In recent years, however, NTDs have received increasing internationalinterest,partlyinresponsetopromisingadvancesin drug development. Concerted efforts are being made also to promote innovative public health approaches such as integrated delivery of multiple interventions [3–5], which require research effort into effective public health interventions. This article was stimulated by the renewed interest in populations affected by NTDsandinfeasiblewaystopreventandcontrolNTDs.Rather thanfocusingonspecificmedicallydefinedNTDs,inthisarticle, we focus on neglected diseases of poverty, i.e., diseases that disproportionately affect poor and marginalized or, in other words, diseases of ‘‘neglected’’ populations. We begin with a summary of the history of social research activities supported by the Special Programme fo