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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| author | Mahapara Nida Shoaib Sameera Ali Rizvi Syeda Tabeena Ali |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-ee7c27ec699540f3965b528a557e1f3c2025-08-20T03:31:52ZengLiaquat National Hospital and Medical CollegeLiaquat National Journal of Primary Care2707-35212708-91342025-07-017329129410.37184/lnjpc.2707-3521.7.53Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO BuildingMahapara0Nida Shoaib1Sameera Ali Rizvi2Syeda Tabeena Ali3Department of Public Health, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology University, Karachi, PakistanDepartment of Public Health, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology University, Karachi, PakistanDepartment of Public Health, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology University, Karachi, PakistanDepartment of Public Health, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology University, Karachi, PakistanThe 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.https://journals.lnh.edu.pk/lnjpc/pdf/12301838-5437-493d-9061-e30a9ae99ad3.pdfhealth systemscomparative analysiswho buildingcommunicable diseasesnon-communicable diseases |
| spellingShingle | Mahapara Nida Shoaib Sameera Ali Rizvi Syeda Tabeena Ali Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO Building Liaquat National Journal of Primary Care health systems comparative analysis who building communicable diseases non-communicable diseases |
| title | Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO Building |
| title_full | Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO Building |
| title_fullStr | Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO Building |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO Building |
| title_short | Strengthening Health Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Canada through the WHO Building |
| title_sort | strengthening health systems a comparative analysis of pakistan and canada through the who building |
| topic | health systems comparative analysis who building communicable diseases non-communicable diseases |
| url | https://journals.lnh.edu.pk/lnjpc/pdf/12301838-5437-493d-9061-e30a9ae99ad3.pdf |
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