Binder Sue, Adigun Lola, Dusenbury Courtenay, Greenspan Allison, Tanhuanpää Paula
International Association of National Public Health Institutes, Sub-Secretariat, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
J Public Health Policy. 2008 Apr;29(1):3-21. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200167.
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.
对资源匮乏国家公共卫生项目的捐赠和政府资助显著增加，例如用于增加免疫接种或治疗艾滋病毒/艾滋病。而用于并非直接服务或与高优先级疾病和病症项目无关的公共卫生职能的资金增长则较为缓慢。在许多国家，这些职能由国家公共卫生研究所（NPHIs）承担。国家公共卫生研究所是基于科学的机构，通常隶属于国家政府，其使命包括评估和监测民众健康以及应对疫情等公共事务。通过一项调查，我们收集了来自一个新的国家公共卫生研究所国际组织的成员以及关于该组织成员的信息。这些回复阐明了国家公共卫生研究所作为公共事务提供者的作用。未来收集到的关于国家公共卫生研究所的结构、实践和挑战的数据，将有助于正在创建或重组国家公共卫生研究所的国家。这些新知识也将有助于倡导增加对国家公共卫生研究所公共事务职能的预算支持。
