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Alliance for Health Research Agenda

It is important to join efforts between all organizations, entities, social movements, civil society, universities and research institutes that consider that health is a right, not a consumer good, and that the best way to guarantee this same right is through promotion of public policies that address the social determinants of health. 

In this sense, the Alliance for Health Research Agenda was elaborated, in a participatory way, by more than fifteen civil society organizations, institutions, universities and other entities. It is a broad agenda, with a transforming vocation, which will allow generating evidence and, subsequently, designing policies and actions to influence citizenship and institutions.

We now call on you to enrich this agenda and enrich it with research that can meet the proposed lines. The agenda is a public proposal and so will be the dissemination of all research that supports it. Only then, through the socialization of knowledge and free access to information, can we improve the health of all the inhabitants of Mozambique.

The process of building and writing the Alliance for Health Research Agenda began in 2019, as part of the implementation of the 2014-2018 Agreement (14-CO1-424), signed between medicusmundi (promoter of the initiative) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), which gave its finatial support. This initiative had its continuity during the 2019-2022 Agreement (18-CO1-1096), with a reissue and its corresponding English translation. It should be noted that the content of this agenda is the sole responsibility of medicusmundi and the Alliance for Health partners , and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the AECID.

Alliance for Health Research Agenda (Second Edition)
  • Territory and Demography
  • Gender
  • Environment
  • Health system
  • Migratory Movements
  • Community and Social Actors
  • Health Management
  • Social control in health;
  • Social inequities in health;
  • Road accidents as a space for health action;
  • Social determination of the health-dis-ease process;
  • Health and work;
  • Urban health, mobility and informal settlements;
  • Social structure and power distribution in communities affected by preventable health problems;
  • Health impact from lack of access to water;
  • Socio-demographic profile and pattern of health services use for users and non-users;
  • Evolution of sanitary and environmental conditions in resettlement programmes resulting from natural disasters;
  • Per capita income and nutritional disorders in rural versus urban populations.
  • Gender, diversity and health;
  • Gender violence and health;
  • Masculinity and health;
  • Sexual minorities and representation in the health workforce;
  • Patterns of discrimination and women’s participation in health committees, CHWs, first aiders, community activists;
  • Participation and governance of public hospitals.
  • Health, conservation and sustainable development;
  • Natural elements (such as water, air, land) within public health policies;
  • Economic interests in environmental conservation and health;
  • Environmental health and toxicology;
  • Health sciences and environmental education;
  • Health, climate and ecosystem change;
  • Occupational hazards and work environments;
  • Planning land use and water resources;
  • Hygiene, sanitation and diseases.
  • Health history and historiography;
  • Protection policies for health service consumers and users;
  • Integrated and complementary health practices;
  • Health financing in face of the new fiscal reality: challenges and perspectives;
  • Functioning of the bodies and institutions responsible for implementing PHC actions and services;
  • The fiscal impact of indirect public financing via tax waivers and health insurance costs for private providers;
  • Importance of the health programme in the total non-financial expenses of the State;
  • Fiscal space possible with institutional reforms in the health sector;
  • Importance of social security in the State budget;
  • Public social spending: sectoral composition.
  • Development of productive forces and impacts on collective health;
  • Migration and social determination of health care;
  • The living and working conditions of workers in the mining and extractive industry from the perspective of health promotion;
  • Assessing the magnitude of the effects on the population's health following natural disasters;
  • Migration movements and health coverage challenges;
  • Informal work associated with cross-border trade and access to health care;
  • Participatory processes and organisation and delivery of health services.
  • Social determination of the health-disease process;
  • Social inequalities in health;
  • Participation and social activism for health citizenship;
  • Socio-demographic inequalities in the prevalence of chronic diseases in Mozambique;
  • Integrative and complementary health practices, with a focus on continuous provision of care;
  • Child health and nutrition;
  • Adolescents in social risk situations;
  • Percentage of provincial governments’ and municipalities’ own resources invested in public health.
  • Evaluation of health services;
  • Structuring of networks focusing on primary care;
  • Planning and management policies for PHC;
  • Integrated and complementary health practices focusing on health education institutions;
  • Study the process of building research Agendas for training institutions, the National Health Institute (INS) and National Health Observatory;
  • Composition of health expenditure and combating inequalities;
  • Cost of family hospital expenses.