Global Health Systems: Articles on Integrated Health Service Delivery, Public Health Information Systems, Essential Medicines, and More

This collection of articles explores various aspects of global health systems, including integrated health service delivery, public health information systems, essential medicines, and more. The articles discuss the role of government in public health, the health workforce in India, investment opportunities in India's healthcare sector, and the challenges of providing access to essential medicines. They also examine the progress made in improving child and infant health indicators in India, and the importance of public health leadership in addressing complex health issues.

Global Health Systems

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ARTICLE 1
INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY: WHY AND HOW?, 2020 [Online] Available
through: <https://www.paho.org/blz/dmdocuments/Inetegrated%20health%20service
%20delivery-why%20and%20how.pdf>
As per Satya Ranjan Lenka, Bitra George (2020), an integrated care service delivery is
mainly an approach of combining the care services of various inter-associated illness to enhance
entire efficiency of the well-being system as well as the convenience of the patients as well. In
this, there are generally multiple forms of integration, it can refers to a package of preventive as
well as curative well-being interventions for a specific group of people such as an integrated
management of neonatal and the childhood disorders, package of care services for a group of
illnesses such as package of WHO of important non-communicable illness interventions. In
addition to this, the integration is generally best expressed as a continuum instead of the 2
extremes if integrated or not integrated.
ARTICLE 2
Role of government in public health: Current scenario in India and future scope, 2018 [Online]
Available through: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114612/>
As per Subitha Lakshminarayanan (2018), the care practice of the well-being of
population generally has been dynamic within India and generally has witnessed multiple hurdles
in its attempt to influence the living of the various people within India. The major public well-
being issues such as tuberculosis, malaria, high maternal and child mortality, leprosy, the human
immunodeficiency virus generally have been addressed via a concerted actions of the
administration. In this, the well-being system reinforcing, the human resource improvement as
well as the capacity building and regulation within the public well-being are significantly the
essential regions across the healthcare settings. The contribution of well-being of a population
can also derives from the various social determinants of well-being such as living conditions,
safe drinking water, nutrition, education, sanitation, an early child development and many more.
Furthermore, the gender main streaming as well as empowerment, decreasing the influence of
the climate alterations and disaster on well-being, enhancing the participation of community and
governance problems are generally the other essential region for the actions.
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ARTICLE 3
Public health information systems for primary health care in India, 2019 [Online] Available
through: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881929/>
As per Dharamjeet Singh Faujdar, Sundeep Sahay, Tarundeep Singh, Harashish Jindal
and Rajesh Kumar (2019), the use of Information Technology is generally first advocated at the
World Health Assembly in the year 2005. Across global, the communication and information
technology based well-being information system generally have been improved. These such
systems can store, capture, manage, analyse as well as transmit the needed information
associated with the well-being for planning, making decisions as well as allocating the resources.
ARTICLE 4
Health workforce in India: assessment of availability, production and distribution, 2013 [Online]
Available through: <https://www.who-seajph.org/article.asp?issn=2224-
3151;year=2013;volume=2;issue=2;spage=106;epage=112;aulast=Hazarika>
As per Indrajit Hazarika (2013), within the low-income countries, despite the availability
of an effective interventions for multiple priority well-being issues as well as improved
developmental assistance, progress towards the well-being Millennium Development goals is
mainly impeded by the shortage of the trained, motivated as well as encouraged well-being care
workers. In addition to this, the well-being care workers can play an essential role in ensuring an
appropriate management of every aspects of the well-being system, such as from the ,logistic and
facility management to finance as well as an effective well-being care interventions.
ARTICLE 5
Essential Medicines, 2015 [Online] Available through:
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581141/>
As per Rituparna Maiti, Vikas Bhatia, Biswa Mohan Padhy and Debasish Hota (2015),
the medications as well as other pharmaceuticals can constitute approximately up to 50% of the
well-being care budgets within the evolving countries, yet a large proportion of the population
often lack the access to the most basic drugs as well. It can mainly be attributed to a poverty
levels within the communities, and therefore enhancing the scarce resources for the purchase of
such facilities. In addition to this, there are multiple countries which have made substantial
progression to the enhancing access to important drugs, but can access to the important drugs
within the improving countries such as India is not an adequate.
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ARTICLE 6
Investment Opportunities in India’s Healthcare Sector, 2015 [Online] Available through:
<https://www.niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/202103/InvestmentOpportunities_HealthcareSector_0
.pdf>
As per the author, the healthcare industry within India and other countries generally has
been enhancing at a compound annual growth rate of approximately about 22% since 2016. in
this, the well-being industries of the countries can include the medical equipment's, hospitals,
well-being insurance, the clinical trails, medical tourism and telemedicine as well. These such
market segments are generally expected to diversify as an ageing public with an enhancing
middle class progressively approval preventative well-being care. Furthermore, the increasing
ratio of the lifestyle illness mainly caused by an elevated cholesterol levels, obesity, high blood
pressure levels, overconsumption of alcohol and many more within the urban regions is
encouraging the demand for the specific care services.
ARTICLE 7
A situation analysis of child delivery facilities at primary health centers (PHCs) in rural India
and its association with likelihood of selecting PHC for child delivery, 2021 [Online] Available
through: <https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-021-07254-x>
As per Akif Mustafa, Chander Shekhar & Neha Shri (2021), the adoption of the
sustainable developmental goals has generally been reaffirmed the decrease of the preventable
maternal as well as the neonatal deaths as the global well-being priorities. In this, the well-being
care services within India generally have been more equitable as well as effective. In the past
few years, India generally has made a substantial increase within the decrease of the maternity
and new born deaths. Across countries, there is generally a broad-spread and an enhancing
demand for the primary well-being care.
ARTICLE 8
Evaluating access to essential medicines for treating childhood cancers: a medicines
availability, price and affordability study in New Delhi, India, 2022 [Online] Available through:
<https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/2/e001379>
From the article, it is determined that cancer is generally the 5th leading cause of death
among children between the age group of 5 to 14 age years within India, where lymphoma and
leukaemia are generally the two most common cancers among them. In this, treating the children
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having cancer generally has an increased rates of survival with having early detection, a multi
model care treatment and robust encouraged care delivered at a suitable time. It is determined by
the study that when the drugs are not available within the public sector, the patient can either
wait for an unknown periods for the drugs to be in stock or can purchase them out-of-pocket at
the private sector retail pharmacies.
ARTICLE 9
Public health leadership in India, 2018 [Online] Available through:
<https://www.ijph.in/article.aspissn=0019557X;year=2018;volume=62;issue=3;spage=171;epag
e=174;aulast=Krishnan>
It is identified by the study that the public well-being issues can pose a peculiar
challenges as they are quite big in scale, stem from multiple as well as highly complex causes,
can play out within the eyes of public, influence a major array of the stakeholders as well as can
need a long-term conditions as well. The significant potential of the public well-being solutions
to enhance as well as can save the lives and also money for the well-being sector is great.
ARTICLE 10
Temporal analysis of infant and child health indicators from health management and
information system of a vulnerable district of India: Tracking the road toward the Sustainable
Development Goal-3, 2019 [Online] Available through: <https://www.ijcm.org.in/article.asp?
issn=0970-0218;year=2019;volume=44;issue=4;spage=397;epage=398;aulast=Dutt>
It is determined that in the global Sustainable Development Goal index 2017, India is
generally ranked at 116 out of the 157 countries, when the Sri Lanka is ranked at about 89th
position and the Bangladesh is at 111 out of 188 countries. These such improvise as well as can
effectively intensify an ongoing efforts towards accomplishing the sustainable developmental
goals 3, it is generally essential to enhance the well-being indicators generally surrounding the
well-being of new born at the root level.
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