Abstract:
:New global public health institutions are increasingly emphasizing transparency in decision-making, developing-country ownership of projects and programmes, and merit- and performance-based funding. Such principles imply an institutional response to the challenge of bridging the "know-do gap", by basing decisions explicitly on results, evidence and best practice. Using a knowledge systems framework, we examine how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has affected the ways in which knowledge is used in efforts to combat these three diseases. We outline the formal knowledge system embedded in current rules and practices associated with the Global Fund's application process, and give three examples that illustrate the complexity of the knowledge system in action: human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) policy in China; successful applications from Haiti; and responses to changing research on malaria. These examples show that the Global Fund has created strong incentives for knowledge to flow to local implementers, but with little encouragement and few structures for the potentially valuable lessons from implementation to flow back to global best practice or research-based knowledge. The Global Fund could play an influential role in fostering much-needed learning from implementation. We suggest that three initial steps are required to start this process: acknowledging shared responsibility for learning across the knowledge system; analysing the Global Fund's existing data (and refining data collection over time); and supporting recipients and technical partners to invest resources in linking implementation with best practice and research.
journal_name
Bull World Health Organjournal_title
Bulletin of the World Health Organizationauthors
van Kerkhoff L,Szlezák Ndoi
10.2471/blt.05.028704subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-08-01 00:00:00pages
629-35issue
8eissn
0042-9686issn
1564-0604pii
S0042-96862006000800014journal_volume
84pub_type
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.2471/BLT.12.116871
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2471/BLT.13.118729
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0042-96862005001100013
更新日期:2005-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.2471/BLT.11.097147
更新日期:2012-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.2471/BLT.18.208959
更新日期:2018-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1956-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2471/BLT.10.082842
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2471/blt.06.032177
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1978-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1953-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2471/blt.06.038521
更新日期:2007-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2471/BLT.12.107318
更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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更新日期:1961-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2471/BLT.10.083329
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2004-02-01 00:00:00