Priority research for health for all

A main aim of the European Nursing Conference in Vienna in June 1988 was to stimulate nurses into action to help realize WHO's ambitious targets for European countries by the year 2000. Nurses in the region, it is hoped, are now following up on the Conference declaration and recommendations (INR, Sept/Oct 1988, p. 130). As action requires knowledge, research has been afforded a top role in the health-for-all movement and nurses can make a valuable contribution. A review of the targets and some of the main research areas needed to achieve them are given below not only to assist researchers in the European Region and industrialized countries tries but also to alert nurse researchers in other lesser developed countries of research areas that may soon also become "high priority."