Table 5 Research capacity needs
• Enhancing qualitative social science research skills • Strengthening analytical skills at all levels, enabling researcher analysts and community animators to link micro and macro issues • Promoting public discourse about the SDH concept • Synthesizing available research findings from an “SDH and inequity” perspective that would guide their next “research/ policy/ communications” agenda • mainstreaming ethics in research • Determining the interrelations between general aspects such as social, economic and political factors and the way through which these factors affect the health of groups and individuals (will for a better understanding of correlations/ dynamics between general wealth indexes of a given society, such as the GDP, and the health indexes) • Using available secondary data to understand the determinants better and designing potential interventions to address inequities. |  |