This document outlines the six main building blocks of a health system: 1. Service delivery - Providing integrated, safe, and quality health services to populations through various means such as in homes, communities, workplaces, and health facilities. 2. Health workforce - All individuals involved in improving health, including providers, managers, support workers, paid and unpaid workers in both public and private sectors. The density of the health workforce is strongly correlated with health outcomes. 3. Health information systems - Systems that ensure the production, analysis, dissemination and use of reliable health information on determinants, system performance, and health status to detect and contain public health threats. 4. Medical products, vaccines and technologies - Ens

1. Health System Building Blocks
Presented by
Syed
waliullah

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Six Building Block

3. Service Delivery
Good health services – deliver safe, effective, good quality,
minimum waste
• Services delivered, be they prevention, treatment or
rehabilitation, may be delivered in the home, the
community, in the workplace or in health facilities.
• For good service delivery there are some well-
established requirements:
– Raising demands for service through understanding the user
perspective, raising public knowledge and reducing financial,
cultural social and gender barriers
– Provide a package of integrated services based on population
need.
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4. Human Resources
All people engaged in actions whose primary intent is to
improve health
Includes:
• service providers, management and support workers
• Public and private sector workers
• Unpaid and paid workers
• Professional and lay workers
Strong correlation between health workforce density and
service coverage and health outcomes
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5. • A well functioning health information system is one that ensures
the production, analysis, dissemination and use of reliable and
timely health information. It involves three domains of health
information:
• Health determinants;
• Health systems performance; and
• Health status.
• To achieve this, a health information system must:
– Generate population and facility-based data
– Have the capacity to detect, investigate, communicate and contain
events that threaten public health security at the place they occur,
and as soon as they occur.
– Have the capacity to synthesize information
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Health Management Information System

6. Medical Products Vaccines and Technologies
Essential medical products, vaccines and technologies
Assured quality: Safety, efficacy, cost effective
• National policies, standards, guidelines and
regulations that support policy.
• Information on prices, set and negotiate prices
• Quality assessment of products
• Procurement, storage and distribution systems
• Rational use of essential medicines,
commodities and equipment
Medical products are the second largest expenditure
Vaccines are the most cost effective health interventions
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7. Health Financing
• A mix of public and private financing and public and
private provision.
• Effective and efficient use of governmentallocated
resources.
• Raising additional funds where health needs are high and
revenues insufficient.
• Reducing reliance on out-of-pocket payments where they
are high.
• Improving efficiency of resource use and addressing
fragmentation of financing arrangements for different
types of services
• Promoting transparency and accountability in health
financing systems.
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8. Governance
• Policy guidance
• Intelligence and oversight.
• Collaboration and coalition-building.
• Regulation.
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