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Table 3 Results of the rating of substantive research topics

From: Priority setting to support a public health research agenda: a modified Delphi study with public health stakeholders in Germany

Research topic

Overall

S1

Improving health

S2

Health justice

S3

Insufficient research

Score

Rank

Not assessed (in %)

Score

Rank

Not assessed (in %)

Score

Rank

Not assessed (in %)

Score

Rank

Not assessed (in %)

Interventions in everyday life

1.42

1

2

1.34

1

0

1.38

2

1

1.55

2

4

Health in all policies

1.57

2

7

1.52

6

6

1.53

3

4

1.66

6

11

Social inequality and injustice

1.58

3

3

1.40

2

2

1.36

1

2

1.99

20

4

Impact of health policy measures

1.60

4

7

1.57

9

2

1.67

8

5

1.57

3

14

Community-based prevention and health promotion

1.61

5

4

1.56

8

3

1.57

5

1

1.69

7

8

Implementation Research

1.61

6

8

1.51

5

5

1.73

12

6

1.60

5

13

Intervention studies over longer periods of time

1.68

7

3

1.49

4

0

1.98

28

5

1.59

4

4

Improving health care

1.71

8

4

1.53

7

3

1.63

7

0

1.96

16

8

Effectiveness of municipal / community-oriented approaches

1.72

9

8

1.69

12

4

1.76

13

3

1.70

8

16

Health literacy promotion

1.73

10

4

1.69

14

2

1.62

6

3

1.87

12

9

Health and children/youth/family

1.78

11

4

1.42

3

1

1.56

4

4

2.37

37

8

Digitisation and health

1.80

12

5

1.72

16

3

2.14

35

3

1.54

1

10

Interdependencies between society, setting and individual health

1.80

13

3

1.84

22

1

1.72

11

1

1.84

10

5

Health and ageing

1.81

14

1

1.69

13

0

1.69

9

1

2.04

23

3

Knowledge translation

1.84

15

8

1.76

17

3

1.80

15

6

1.97

17

16

Research with focus on specific target groups

1.84

16

6

1.70

15

3

1.71

10

5

2.13

29

9

Global Health and effects of globalisation

1.86

17

10

1.86

25

5

1.86

19

5

1.85

11

18

Environment/climate change and health

1.87

18

7

1.83

20

3

1.89

21

4

1.90

14

13

Patient and user orientation

1.89

19

6

1.82

19

3

1.98

27

4

1.88

13

12

Health Communication

1.90

20

5

1.83

21

1

1.83

17

3

2.05

24

10

Influence through economisation and interest groups

1.91

21

9

2.07

33

9

1.91

22

9

1.73

9

11

Prevention of non-communicable diseases

1.92

22

6

1.68

11

3

1.99

29

3

2.10

25

12

Research on health care needs

1.96

23

5

1.86

24

3

1.80

14

0

2.23

32

11

Life course perspective

1.97

24

8

1.95

27

2

1.99

30

8

1.98

19

12

Work and health

1.97

25

2

1.67

10

2

1.85

18

1

2.41

42

3

Migration health

1.98

26

6

2.10

36

3

1.87

20

5

1.97

18

9

Mental health

1.99

27

7

1.77

18

5

1.94

24

5

2.24

34

9

Governance (global, national, regional) and health systems

2.00

28

11

2.03

30

5

1.96

25

5

2.03

22

22

Nutrition and health (cultural, physiological, social)

2.01

29

4

1.84

23

1

1.81

16

6

2.37

38

5

Health policy analysis

2.03

30

6

2.12

37

4

1.97

26

5

2.00

21

8

Disability and multimorbidity

2.04

31

9

1.96

28

5

1.93

23

5

2.22

31

19

Sustainability

2.09

32

9

1.99

29

8

2.32

40

7

1.95

15

12

Diversity and gender

2.13

33

6

2.13

38

2

2.03

31

4

2.23

33

13

Resilience

2.14

34

7

2.10

35

5

2.20

36

4

2.12

28

13

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2.14

35

19

2.21

40

20

2.12

33

13

2.10

26

24

Behaviour change measures

2.17

36

4

2.04

31

1

2.14

34

3

2.34

36

7

Research on health professions

2.22

37

6

2.07

32

4

2.43

44

2

2.15

30

14

Infectious diseases and vaccination protection

2.23

38

5

1.93

26

2

2.20

37

1

2.55

46

11

One Health

2.23

39

25

2.27

41

19

2.31

39

21

2.12

27

34

Health reporting

2.24

40

5

2.09

34

3

2.10

32

1

2.54

45

11

Self-help

2.30

41

7

2.28

42

6

2.25

38

1

2.39

41

13

Effectiveness of counselling at the individual level

2.33

42

5

2.37

44

1

2.37

41

3

2.25

35

13

Population perspective on pharmaceuticals

2.34

43

14

2.17

39

10

2.49

45

6

2.37

39

24

Health economic evaluation

2.37

44

8

2.31

43

4

2.43

43

9

2.37

40

11

Public health crises and disasters

2.41

45

12

2.38

45

9

2.42

42

8

2.45

43

19

Accidents, violence, self-harm

2.48

46

12

2.39

46

7

2.54

46

10

2.51

44

20

Average

1.96

 

7

1.87

 

4

1.95

 

5

2.05

 

12

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