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Which building block is responsible for promoting the access and use of services?
What is a primary function of health workforce inputs in a health system?
In the context of health systems, what is a critical role of leadership and governance?
Which outcome is primarily linked to the effective management of health financing?
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Which element is essential for ensuring the availability of medical products and technologies in healthcare?
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What is the primary focus of health information within the building blocks of health systems?
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What is aimed for through WHO’s original objectives related to health systems?
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What does the term 'inputs' refer to in the context of health systems?
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Study Notes
Building Blocks and Inputs to Health Systems
- Building blocks are the essential components that make up a health system.
- Inputs are the resources that are put into the health system to help it function.
Building Blocks (WHO Model)
- Service Delivery: Provides access to essential health services like prevention, promotion, and treatment.
- Health Workforce: Includes all healthcare personnel like doctors, nurses, and technicians.
- Health Information: Ensures collection, analysis, and dissemination of data to guide decision-making.
- Medical Products, Vaccines & Technologies: Availability and effective use of medicines, vaccines, and medical technologies.
- Financing: The process of raising and allocating funds for the health system.
- Leadership & Governance (Stewardship): Ensures the effective direction and oversight of the health system.
Inputs to Health System
- Health Workforce: Includes recruitment, training, supervision, and payment of healthcare personnel.
- Finances: Funding sources for the health system like taxes, insurance, and private payments.
- Infrastructure: Essential physical facilities like hospitals, clinics, and laboratories.
- Transport: Transportation systems to facilitate access to healthcare services.
- Medicines, Vaccines, Medical Products, and Technologies: Supply and management of essential medical products and technologies.
Building Blocks vs. Inputs
- Building Blocks are the fundamental components of a health system (like the foundation of a house).
- Inputs are the resources used to operate and maintain those building blocks (like the materials used to build the house).
Goals and Outcomes of Health System Building Blocks
- Improved Health (Level and Equity): Reduce illness and improve overall health status.
- Responsiveness: Respond to the needs and preferences of the population.
- Financial Risk Protection: Protect individuals from the high costs of healthcare.
- Improved Efficiency: Deliver healthcare services cost-effectively.
WHO's Original Objectives for the Six Building Blocks
- Promote Common Understanding: Provide a framework for understanding health systems.
- Address New Challenges and Set Priorities: Identify emerging health challenges and prioritize action.
- Address Questions of Health System Financiers: Guide financial decision-making for health.
- Strengthen WHO's Role in Health: Enhance the World Health Organization's role in health system strengthening.
- Strategies, Interventions, and Activities: Develop and implement strategies to improve health system performance.
Inputs and their Role in Building Blocks
- Leadership/ Governance: Drives resource allocation through taxes, voting, and purchasing decisions. Sets social values and promotes accountability and transparency.
- Information: Provides data to monitor demand and use of health services. Emphasize the need to generate and share information.
- Human Resource: Identifies, supports, and provides healthcare workers. Partners with facility-based health workers to improve services, and monitors worker performance.
- Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technologies: Encourages purchasing appropriate medicines and technologies and promotes vaccine coverage. Emphasizes accountability and transparency.
- Service Delivery: Sets standards for essential services, promotes access and use of services, and delivers prevention and promotion services at the local level.
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