List of priority topics related to National Public Health problems

STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SCIENTIFIC ENHR WORKSHOP 1997 2

RESEARCH / CNRST 1995 1

VERTICAL HORIZONTAL VERTICAL HORIZONTAL PROBLEMS

PROBLEMS PROBLEMS PROBLEMS
DISEASES

* Communicable disease Epidemiology: Malaria -Bad reception of patients by

with non vectorial Epidemic control health workers
Diarrhoea -Vomiting
transmission: and -Insufficient access of population
epidemiological STD / AIDS to health services
-AIDS and STD research -How to improve the quality of
Meningitis
-Diarrhoeic diseases care
-Tuberculosis and IRA Health systems Malnutrition -Low capacity of health workers
-High prevalence of self
Hypertension
* Communicable disease Management of medication
with vectorial health facilities Measles -Management of emergencies
transmission: -Lack of food hygiene in the
Lung diseases
Traditional streets and in the market
-Malaria Medicine Intestine parasites -Home delivery
-Schistosomiasis -Lack of decentralisation of health
Tuberculosis
-Arbovirosis Socio-behavioural system
-Dracunculiasis and aspects Jaundice -Poverty
Filariasis -Lack of means to transfer patients
Typhoid fever
-Trypanosomiasis and Drugs and -First aid treatments
Onchocerchiasis vaccines: clinical Haemorrhoid -High cost of drugs
and vaccine trials -Lack of safe water
Abortion
adjustment, control -Lack of motivation of health staff
* Other diseases:
and others. Eye problems -Lack of hygiene and of hygiene
-Food and nutritional services
Poliomyelitis
diseases I.E.C.: -Low community participation
-Reproductive health (Information, Cholera -Bad conditions of surgery
-Neuro psychiatric Education and equipment
Guinea worm
diseases communication) -Lack of experience of health staff
-Hemo globinopatis Skin diseases
Cancer Hygiene and
Yellow fever
-Occupational diseases sanitation
and work accidents
-Dental diseases
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Source: Plan Stratégique de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et
Technique (CNRST), Ministère des Enseignements Secondaire, Supèrieur et de la Recherche Scientifique
(MESSRS), Ouagadougou, 1995, p 41-42.
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These priority health problems where formulated in 1997 through a workshop on Essential National Health
Research (ENHR) organised by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with COHRED and attended by all
stakeholders involved in health research in the country. The purpose of the workshop was to identify twenty
“vertical” and twenty “horizontal” health problems aiming at orienting health research priorities. (Source: Actes
du premier Symposium sur la Recherche National Essentielle en Santé au Burkina Faso, Ministère de la Santé et
Ministère des Enseignements Secondaire, Supèrieur et de la Recherche Scientifique (MESSRS), Ouagadougou,
1997).