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World Report on Knowledge for Better Health

The Report focuses on bridging of the "know do" gap, the gulf between what we know and what we do in practice, between scientific potential and health realization. The bridging of this gap is central to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) by 2015. The gap exists for each of the MDG’s and represents a fundamental and pragmatic knowledge translation challenge that must be addressed to strengthen health systems performance towards achieving the MDG’s.

The Report will expound the message that we must turn scientific knowledge into actions, which improves people’s health, and that health improvement through knowledge applications is a critical factor in human development and alleviation of ill-health and poverty worldwide.

The Report will be highlighted at the World Ministerial Summit on Health Research in Mexico (November 16-20, 2004).

The Report

The full report [pdf 1.55Mb] | The compressed version [zip 1.30Mb] | View by Chapter

Report Summaries

English [pdf 327kb] | French [pdf 587kb] | Espanol [pdf 571kb] | Russian [pdf 872kb]

Report Executive Summaries

English [pdf 63kb] | French [pdf 40kb] | Espanol [pdf 41kb]

Report Flyer

Report flyer [pdf 616kb]

Last update: 9 December 2008