A national public health system

Toward a national laboratory system for public health.

Vol. 7, No. 3 Supplement, June 2001 Emerging Infectious Diseases 531 Currently, there is no cohesive national system of laboratories to support community health activities. One vision for such a system would be a cooperative arrangement of public health, hospital and independent laboratories that address community needs (R.A. Martin, pers. comm., 2000; 13). The rationale for this system include...

A national agenda for public health informatics.

The American Medical Informatics Association 2001 Spring Congress brought together the public health and informatics communities to develop a national agenda for public health informatics. Discussions on funding and governance; architecture and infrastructure; standards and vocabulary; research, evaluation, and best practices; privacy, confidentiality, and security; and training and workforce r...

Public health expenditure and spatial interactions in a decentralized national health system.

One of the limitations of cross-country health expenditure analysis refers to the fact that the financing, the internal organization and political restraints of health care decision-making are country-specific and heterogeneous. Yet, a way through is to examine the influence of such effects in those countries that have undertaken decentralization processes. In such a setting, it is possible to ...

Health research investments: a challenge for National Public Health Associations. .

Public versus private health care in a national health service.

This paper studies the interaction between public and private health care provision in a National Health Service (NHS), with free public care and costly private care. The health authority decides whether or not to allow private provision and sets the public sector remuneration. The physicians allocate their time (effort) in the public and (if allowed) in the private sector based on the public w...