Limited alignment of publicly competitive disease funding with disease burden in Japan.

OBJECTIVE:The need to align investments in health research and development (R&D) with public health needs is one of the most important public health challenges in Japan. We examined the alignment of disease-specific publicly competitive R&D funding to the disease burden in the country. METHO...

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Main Authors: Shuhei Nomura, Daisuke Yoneoka, Shiori Tanaka, Ryoko Makuuchi, Haruka Sakamoto, Aya Ishizuka, Haruyo Nakamura, Anna Kubota, Kenji Shibuya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228542