NPHIs and public goods: a perspective from Morocco
1Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco. pasteur@pasteur.ma
Abstract:
National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) provide critical functions that protect and support public health. In Morocco, these functions are divided among three different agencies. Consolidation of these functions into a single agency would encourage a comprehensive approach to public health in Morocco, providing an environment that can support work in new areas of public health (such as chronic diseases), decreasing competition and overlap among agencies, and increasing efficiency. Working together, NPHIs need to develop data and support advocacy so that funding goes not only to the diseases that are in the news and getting attention, but also to those Core Functions that contribute daily to the health and safety of all people.
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