[EQ] National Public Health Institutes: Contributing to the Public Good

National Public Health Institutes: Contributing to the Public Good

 

Sue Binder1, Lola Adigun1, Courtenay Dusenbury1, Allison Greenspan1 and Paula Tanhuanpää2
1International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) Sub-Secretariat, Atlanta, GA, USA

2IANPHI Secretariat, KTL, Helsinki, Finland

Journal of Public Health Policy  - April 2008 - 29, 3–21. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200167

 

Website: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v29/n1/full/3200167a.html

 

“……..Donor and government funding for public health programs in low-resource countries – to increase immunizations or treat HIV/AIDS, for example – has risen dramatically. Rising less rapidly is the funding for public health functions that are not direct services or linked to programs for high-priority diseases and conditions. In many countries, these functions are housed in National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs). NPHIs are science-based agencies, usually within national governments, that include in their missions such public goods as assessing and monitoring the population's health and responding to outbreaks. Through a survey, we collected information from and about members of a new international organization for NPHIs. The responses illustrate the roles of NPHIs as purveyors of public goods. Data collected in the future on NPHI structures, practices, and challenges will be helpful to countries that are creating or restructuring NPHIs. The new knowledge will also help advocates for increasing budgetary support for the public goods functions of NPHIs……”

 

“…….National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) are science-based agencies, usually within national governments, whose missions include such public goods as assessing and monitoring the population's health and responding to outbreaks. This paper describes the importance of NPHIs in the context of growing concern about and investment in global public health and includes the results of a systematic effort to capture data about the range of NPHI infrastructure and activities…..”

 

Editorial

Journal of Public Health Policy (2008) 29, 1–2. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200171

National Public Health Institutes

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v29/n1/full/3200171a.html

 

NPHIs and Public Goods: A Perspective from Morocco

The Director of the Institute Pasteur of Morocco explains that consolidation of public health functions into a single agency would encourage a comprehensive approach to public health in Morocco.

Mohammed Hassar

J Public Health Pol 29: 22-25; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200166

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A Perspective from Mexico 

The Director General of the Mexico's National Institute of Public Health describes his institute, one of the oldest and most extensive in the world.

Mario Henry Rodríguez- López

J Public Health Pol 29: 26-31; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200168

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

April 2008, Volume 29, Number 1

 

This issue now available at: www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v29/n1/index.html

A Roundtable Discussion Begins: National Public Health Institutes–and new Collaboration among them worldwide

Special Section: Health and Human Rights: Critical Historical Perspectives from the Cold War to the New World Order

 

 

 

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