The Foundation will concentrate on the issues and themes identified as priorities from the perspective of policy makers and managers. Finally the Foundation aims to develop activities with partners and co-sponsors sympathetic to the generation and use of applied research in health systems. Everybody's Business Decisions affecting health and all aspects of health services should be based on real evidence. We need to know the best ways to deliver health services. We should be able to weigh costs and benefits and to organize health services to maximize value for every dollar invested.
Health services is a multidisciplinary enterprise.
It picks up where clinical research leaves off, to examine the effectiveness of the organization and delivery of health services in terms of health outcomes and in terms of benefits and costs. The ultimate goal of health services research is to put knowledge to work in ways that significantly improve the health system. This is everybody's business. The Foundation is an investment in maintaining the best health services in the world. By sponsoring research of high quality and the application of research findings to the management of health services the Foundation will contribute to establishing evidence-based decision making as an integral part of doing business in the health sector.