What is Research

What is Medical Research

Health and medical research is about the search and discovery for a healthier life. We all face challenges to our health, either because of inherited susceptibility or from the environment we live in. Health and medical researchers seek to build our knowledge about health and disease and to use this knowledge to help people enjoy better health throughout their life.

Research aims to gain knowledge about and better understand:

how the human body is formed before birth and how it functions normally throughout life;
what goes wrong when ill-health and other medical problems occur;
what causes these problems;
how health problems impact on communities or particular groups in the population;
how to effectively prevent, treat and manage health conditions.

This knowledge is translated into action and applied to develop ways to:

improve and maintain healthy lifestyles;
prevent or avoid the causes of ill-health;
detect problems early to improve treatment outcomes;
create new treatments or cures for health;
improve or replace existing treatments that are only partially effective or do not work for everyone;
help individuals, carers and the community deal with the social and emotional impact of disease and health problems.

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