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QUESTION 4 According to the WHO, the building blocks of a heath system include: O (0) Leadership/governance to provide oversight to ensure, safety, efficiency, accountability O (i) Service delivery through a qualified health care work force (health providers, pharmacists, technicians, therapists, etc.) O (ii) Medical products,devices, technology, vaccines (iv) Health information management O (i), (ii) and (iv) only O (0), (), and (iv) only (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).

Answer 1

According to WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

A health system consists of all the organizations, institutions, resources and people whose primary purpose is to improve health. This includes efforts to influence determinants of health as well as more direct health-improvement activities. The health system delivers preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative interventions through a combination of public health actions and the pyramid of health care facilities that deliver personal health care. The actions of the health system should be responsive and financially fair, while treating people respectably. A health system needs staff, funds, information, supplies, transport, communications and overall guidance and direction to function. Strengthening health systems thus means addressing key constraints in each of these areas.

The World Health Organization recommends supporting and strengthening a health system by building blocks of health system. There are six Building blocks of health system they are,

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HEALTH SYSTEM INCLUDES:

1.Leadership and Governance. Effective leadership and governance ensures the existence of strategic policy frameworks, effective oversight and coalition building, provision of appropriate incentives, and attention to system design, safety, efficiency and accountability.

2. Service Delivery. Good health services are those which deliver effective, safe, quality personal and non-personal health interventions to those that need them, when and where needed, with minimum waste of resources with qualified work force.

3. Medical Products. Buy and use medicines effectively, Promote vaccine coverage, Enforce accountability, transparency.

4. Health Information System. A well performing system ensures the production, analysis, dissemination and use of timely and reliable information.

5. Health Workforce. A well-performing workforce consists of human resources management, skills and policies

6. Financing. A good health financing system raises adequate funds for health, protects people from financial catastrophe, allocates resources, and purchases good and services in ways that improve quality, equity, and efficiency.

Therefore According to WHO, the building blocks of a health system includes all these given building blocks.

OPTION:-D