[Study on insufficiency of government investment to the centers of disease prevention and control].
OBJECTIVE
To make clear the superaddition of government investment to the centers of disease prevention and control (CDC) which will ensure fulfillment of public functions of the center of disease prevention and control. Methods Centers of disease prevention and control had been sampled by two-stage stratified sampling method to investigate the status of government investment to the centers of disease prevention and control, which would be compared with the expected government investment to fulfill the public functions of CDC.


RESULTS
According to the cost of manpower and the price in 2003, the government should give another 304.9% investment than current government investment (3.88 billions). For CDC of county level, the superaddition rate even reached 416.1%. The percentage of manpower expense would be 32.2% and the percentage of routine expense would be 67.8% of the superaddtion of government investment. The percentage of routine expense even reached 70.7% of the superaddtion of government investment.


CONCLUSIONS
There was a big gap between the current government investment to CDC and the expected government investment to CDC. To fulfill the public function of CDC, the current government investment to CDC should increase by 3-4 times. The superaddition of government investment to CDC should be allocated more to the routine expense.
Chang
Feng-shui
FS
Research Institute of Health Development Strategies, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Wang
Ying
Y
Luo
Li
L
Sun
Mei
M
D002681:China; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D015980:Public Health Practice