Dimensions and Dynamics of Health Research.- Dimensions of Health Research.- Dynamics of Health Research.- Clinical Research: Problems and Institutional Conditions.- Basic Problems Besetting Clinical Research.- The Role of Funding Agencies in Health Research.- An International Comparison of Health Funding Systems.- A Comparison of the Range and Problem-Solving Abilities of Different Sets of Funding Instruments.- An International Comparison of Public Health Research and its Funding.- Problems of Public Health Research.- Conclusions: The Funding of Health Research.

By gathering institutional details on funding and health research systems in a comparative perspective, Structure and Dynamics of Health Research and Public Funding offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and systematic view of the options and restrictions to which scientists, clinicians and administrators are subject when seeking to establish a productive health research enterprise.
The Structure and Dynamics of Health Research and Public Funding provides the reader with a comparative institutional analysis of problems of application in health research. In assessing the cognitive, social and institutional structuring of health research, explanations for the origin and variation of problems are presented. The study extensively discusses the capacities of funding agencies to contribute to a higher practical diffusion of health research knowledge. It is thus addressed to all individuals and institutions who are involved in the promotion of, or are concerned with, the future of health research.