Major areas of focus for the Riche Project

Inventory and taxonomy

Work Package 1 will feed into all other work packages, and give them their initial material on which to build. Self-evidently, a project to identify gaps in research activity must start by identifying current activity. But this work package seeks to do more than conduct an inventory – it will set the foundations for the three-year project, and the basic frame for subsequent work within and after the project. READ MORE

Research gaps and priorities

Gaps will identify a range of important clinical and public health problems that affect children's health but that are under-served by the contemporary mix of commissioned research on child health (WHO 2008). For us, importance is measured in two ways, first at a whole population level, giving rise to measures like burden of disease (Valent et al. 2006; Lopez et al, 2006); second as impacts on the most vulnerable groups of children – those described a marginalized.  READ MORE

Measurements and indicators

Developing and implementing sound indicators, based on good measurements, for various aspects of child health and its determinants is essential for the future development of child health within the EU (Rigby, 2003). Benchmarking of treatment methods based on indicators drives quality work in clinical practice. Comparison of health policies in the EU demands high quality indicators of policy and health for reliable analyses. READ MORE

Research roadmap

This WP is to identify paths to the future of child health research in the EU. We will build on WP1-3, and existing work on moving research into policy, and on frameworks for research priorities. We will use a rapid open consultation to develop a consensus on the roadmaps, and to identify capacity to deliver them, and prioritise them. READ MORE