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WHO Collaborating Center for Public Health Practice
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Update March 2003
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Since the last update of August 2002, the Center has had a busy period collaborating with
the World Bank. These collaborations have been in the area of performance measurement of
health systems, specifically in the area of public health systems and delivery.
Presentations on
"Essential Public Health Functions: A Framework for Building Capacity
of Public Health Infrastructure", has been given at a recent public health conferences
in Beirut, Turkey and the United States. This presentation has generated interest among
various countries anxious to begin doing assessments of their public health system
infrastructure at the national level. An assessment by the Government of Turkey was
completed in October 2002. The next planned assessment will be by the Government of
Oman for later this year.
Our newest partner in the measurement of Public Health systems is the World Bank. That
organization has strongly recommended the use of Essential Public Health Functions and
performance measurement methodology in its publication, "Public Health and World Bank
Operations, February 2002. The publication is available through the Bank. A chapter
on Strengthening Management of Essential Public Health Functions will also appear in
the next publication of the World Bank Report.
Collaborative Project on Performance Measurement with PAHO in Latin America and the Caribbean
This project was completed in May 2002 and 41 countries in the region participated. The data
from these performance measurement applications has been published in a joint publication of
contributing authors from the CDC, PAHO and CLAISS (see project description for further
details about this project). Further information about the book may be found at:
http://www.paho.org/English/DPI/pr020923e.htm. Some of the countries have already started to
use the data in their national health plans to help develop targeted, strategic interventions
that will help enhance the effectiveness of their current systems that deliver public health
services. Meetings of Ministers of Health at a regional level have also been held to explore
ways in which regional cooperation can be used to strengthen systems throughout the regions
of the Americas.
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This page last reviewed: August 17, 2004
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