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LIFE COURSE
A life course approach to health puts forward people’s well-being at all ages by addressing people’s needs, ensuring access to health services, and safeguarding the human right to health throughout their lifetime.
Health is seen as a renewable resource which needs to be built across life. Health is affected positively or negatively by social, environmental, economic, and other health determinants and events at every stage of human development. Health during this generation will have incidence for the following one.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
RESEARCH PRIORITY SETTING
Global Forum for Health Research
Established in Geneva in 1997, Global Forum for Health Research stimulated research activities around global health issues. It coined the phrase 10/90 gap to identify the observation that only 10% of the world's health research spending is targeted at 90% of present health problems.