A health system in any country performs instrumental functions of stewardship (oversight), creation of resources (investment and training), delivering services (provision), and financing (collecting, pooling and purchasing) [ 1].
However, our study was restricted to aspects of the functions of stewardship, creating and sustaining health inputs, and financing for health research.
Secondly, this study was restricted to the NHRS functions of stewardship, financing and creating and sustaining resources or health research inputs.
In particular, other evidence suggests the importance of strategically integrating research into the health system functions of stewardship and service delivery to ensure government support for research [ 18, 22, 23].
We cannot have the evidence that the national health policy-makers need to formulate appropriate health policies and take relevant action to strengthen national health systems without NHRS that adequately perform their functions of stewardship, creating and sustaining health research resources, producing and using research results, and health research financing [ 12, 20, 29, 30].
To propose an operational framework for assessing the completeness and consistency of the stewardship function of national health ministries.
A 2006 report from the state inspector general concluded that Romney's administration and the independent Massachusetts Turnpike Authority "failed to uphold the most basic function of government in their stewardship. . . to protect the safety of the public.'' Romney supporters dismissed the report as political and unfair.
The stewardship function of the Ministry of Health (MoH) is focused on centralized management rather than on policy making and regulation.
To remedy the neglect of the landscape scale in private land conservation MBI policy, we develop a definition of stewardship that directly connects landscape-scale ecological function to the 'public good' dimension of stewardship.
