 Sept. 29, 2000

Health policy options extend beyond the financing and delivery of personal health care, to domains such as medical research and health workforce planning, both domestically and internationally.Medical research can be both the basis for defining evidence-based health policy, and the subject of health policy itself, particularly in terms of its sources of funding.Those in favor of government policies for publicly funded medical research posit that removing profit as a motive will increase the rate of medical innovation.