Financing State Newborn Screening Programs: Sources and Uses of Funds

Financing state newborn screening programs: sources and uses of funds.

BACKGROUND Financing for newborn screening is different from virtually all other public health programs. All except 5 screening programs collect fees as the primary source of program funding. A fee-based approach to financing newborn screening has been adopted by most states, to ensure consistent funding for this critical public health activity. METHODS Two types of data are reported here, ie...

Financing newborn screening: sources, issues, and future considerations.

Newborn screening (NBS) programs are population-based public health programs and are uniquely financed footline compared with many other public health programs. Since they began more than 45 years ago, the financing issues have become more complex for NBS programs. Today, almost all programs have a portion of their costs paid by fees. The fee amounts vary from program to program, with little st...

Education Financing in Developing Countries: Level and Sources of Funds

Financing newborn screening systems: US experience.

Newborn screening (NBS) in the United States (US) has existed since the early 1960s and is required in all 51 state jurisdictions. It is generally recognised that NBS provides a significant public health benefit by preventing or markedly decreasing the adverse medical consequences of conditions included in the screening panel. There is currently no US national NBS policy, so instead there are 5...

Mandatory HIV testing issues in state newborn screening programs.

On May 23, 1991, an editorial by Dr. Marcia Angell, the executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, recommended that all newborns, health care workers, pregnant women and hospital patients be tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Dr. Angell noted that HIV infection in newborns is more common than phenylketonuria (PKU) which is routinely tested in all newboms. Thi...