Tour d'horizon

Greeting fellow life forms,

First of all, I used to believe that blogging is a complete hokum but here I am, "blogging". The existence of this blog itself is actually surprises me. I used to read a blog written by a psychology student discussing about psycho-sexuality development and I learned a lot from that blog. It's a very systematic blog, and most of the posts are summarizing the content of a psychology textbook. So I hope this blog can be beneficial and educational too. In this blog, all posts are dedicated for block 4.2; i.e. this blog will discuss about what I learned from the learning materials about Health System and Disaster.

As the title says, goodness and fairness are the double-fold objectives of an effective and efficient health system apart from the improving health status of the community. Health status of the community can be measured by looking into the health indicators in the community that are established by World Health Organization (WHO). For the complete global health status indicators, it can be read in WHO's World Health Statistics (WHS) which is publish every year in WHO website by Global Health Observatory (GHO). These indicators include infant and child mortality (the probability of dying between birth and 1 and 5 years of age, respectively), adult mortality (the probability of dying between 15 and 60 years of age) and overall life expectancy at birth.

"Indicators derived from mortality rates provide a good picture of overall population health" - WHS 2009

The other objectives of good health itself goodness which means health system need to manage and optimize the quality of the health care delivery itself and fairness which expect the health care services to be served equally well to everyone, without discrimination. All these goals, can be achieved by having excellence policy in all key component of a well heath system (The World Health Report 2000, Health System : Improving Performance):

• Leadership and governance
• Health financing
• Human resources for health/providers
• Service delivery/consumer