Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO Building
The Health System Building Blocks framework guided the holistic approach that has been promoted by the World Health Organization to strengthen the health systems. The framework is composed of six fundamental components: the health workforce, access to essential medicines, information systems, lead...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Liaquat National Journal of Primary Care |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lnh.edu.pk/lnjpc/pdf/12301838-5437-493d-9061-e30a9ae99ad3.pdf |
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| Summary: | The Health System Building Blocks framework guided the holistic approach that has been promoted by the World Health Organization
to strengthen the health systems. The framework is composed of six fundamental components: the health workforce, access to
essential medicines, information systems, leadership/governance, and financing. These components have been strengthened
along with challenges and strategies for indicators like HIV, Nutrition, Child health, and sanitation in Canada, a high-income country
compared with a lower-middle-income country such as Pakistan. This commentary identifies certain health system challenges and
opportunities for betterment in each country by evaluating the indicators inside the WHO Health System Building Blocks framework
that has a health workforce, service delivery, health information systems, access to essential medicines, leadership/governance, and
financing. |
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| ISSN: | 2707-3521 2708-9134 |