Building the infrastructure for public health

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...

A prescription for health inequity: Building public health infrastructure in resource-poor settings

My family has already purchased a coffin for me,” Naeema explained, enervated though she was. “The medicine we got from the local clinic has not helped. I am getting worse. We have spent almost all of our money going to regional hospitals to get a diagnostic test and request government subsidized medicine. My parents have sold everything we had – our crops, our land, and our livestock – to pay ...

Building a geographic information system (GIS) public health infrastructure for research and control of tropical diseases.

An increasingly critical shortage of human donors has limited the availability and benefit of organ and tissue transplantation. This chronic shortage, coupled with recent scientific and biotechnological advances, has been a catalyst for new therapeutic approaches directed at using animal tissues in humans. The use of xenogeneic tissues and organs for transplantation or perfusion has raised conc...

The public health infrastructure: rebuild or redesign?

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Public Health—The Foundation of Nation Building