Artificial Intelligence in Public health Readiness assessment toolkit Assessing and Enhancing Preparedness for AI Integration in Public Health published by PAHO/WHO and IDB (2024).
The goal of this assessment tool is to facilitate a thorough and structured evaluation of a governments’ readiness for AI in public health, fostering informed decision-making, strategic planning, and targeted investments. This tool also aims to support governments in building a robust foundation for successful AI integration in their health systems, ultimately enhancing public health outcomes and operational efficiency. It provides a comprehensive structure for assessing various dimensions of AI readiness. It highlights critical aspects such as governance, infrastructure, workforce, data management, funding, public engagement, implementation, and evaluation. It was designed with a holistic approach for supporting a country’s preparedness for AI integration in public health.
Decentralization, Deregulation and Economic Transition in China by Justin Yifu Lin, Ran Tao, Mingxing Liu (2003).
In this paper, based on an account of recent economic history of in China, we explore the institutional background and inter-government relationship both in the pre-reform and post reform period. We demonstrate the centralization-decentralization cycle in the traditional planned system is an inevitable outcome of the regulatory structure endogenous to the overtaking development strategy inconsistent with China’s endowment structure. We also argue that the marketization reform since late 1970s can be viewed as a process of deregulation, and the decentralization at that time is only a means of deregulation. We make a critical review of the “Chinese style fiscal federalism” by arguing that the evolution of fiscal arrangements after the marketization reform is, to a large extent, endogenous to China’s transitional path and de-regulation sequencing. We propose a framework to explain China’s growth in transition and point out that rule-based decentralization in China is yet to be achieved. We argue that the administrative/fiscal decentralization may not promote economic development of China without further reducing government intervention. The existing problems in the current inter-government fiscal arrangement are analyzed from the perspective of development strategy and government regulation.
