Commitment

Saturday 27 December 2008, by Webmaster

The group has committed itself to undertaking the following activities:

1. Surveillance and research : We aim to make a substantial contribution to: the national surveillance of chronic diseases and their risk factors; understanding the determinants of chronic disease and their risk factors, with a focus on the role of socio-economic factors; the development, implementation and evaluation of health care for the effective treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of complications from chronic diseases; the development, implementation and evaluation of measures for the effective prevention (primordial and primary) of chronic diseases, with the focus on measures appropriate to Cameroon.

2. Dissemination of research to the scientific community : The group is committed to ensuring that the results of its research achieve the highest possible impact within the public health and scientific communities with an interest in chronic diseases, national and international health.

3. Influencing policy : The group is committed to ensuring that the results of its research are actively disseminated to policy makers, and to monitoring the impact of its research upon policy. Key policy makers include the Ministries of Health in Cameroon, World Health Organisation national and regional offices, and funding bodies.

4. Capacity building : The group is committed to strengthening expertise and capacity to conduct research, policy development, and programme assessment with particular emphasis in Cameroon and other countries of the sub regional that need inputs from the group in Cameroon.

5. Ethical Issues : The following ethical issues are being tackled in our programme :

-* Whether to evaluate the most effective treatments which may be expensive and hence unsustainable in resource poor settings, or to evaluate less effective but cheaper and more sustainable treatments; -* The degree to which researchers are responsible for ensuring that treatments and care provided within research projects is maintained after the research is completed; -* How to ensure that the research pursued is relevant to the health needs of Cameroon and communities in which it is being carried out; -* That resources, such as the local personnel involved in the research, may not be taken away from working on other programmes and this damages those programmes; -* How to ensure that autonomy is protected and the informed consent of participants obtained, particularly among vulnerable (e.g. poorly educated) groups and in populations where cultural norms of autonomy differ from those of the researchers -* How to ensure that research is carried out in a culturally sensitive way.

• Partenaire
  WDF
• About us
  The team started in 1992 under the name of Non-Communicable Disease Research Group (NCD Research Group). At this stage, our activities were (...)
• Commitment
  The group has committed itself to undertaking the following activities: 1. Surveillance and research : We aim to make a substantial (...)
• Mission
  The mission of the group is to contribute, through research, to the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases in economically and socially (...)