Barriers To Health And Social Care

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The identification of common barriers to the execution of a range of priority interventions, present in many countries, suggests the need for international collaboration on health-systems research to tackle shared priorities. in view of the critical need for any health-policy and systems research agenda to be grounded in and responsive to pressing health-system problems. The health policy and systems research cannot address all the obstacles to improving health service delivery. But it can help, and it is certain, and there is need for better quality research to be done. The perpetual problem is to leap from one solution to another, never tackling the long-term problems. (Lee k et al 2004). More concentrated action, with longer term vision, …show more content…

This results in people not seeking care when needed, sometimes despite the absence of price barriers, and it also results in people especially poor people not utilizing or wasting limited resources on inappropriate care. Unfamiliarity with the health system may also result in people not getting the maximum health gain out of inputs they have available to them. Many individuals do not know that hand washing convenes much of the health benefit of piped water , which has a greater effect on the incidence of diarrhoea among the children of the better off and better educated. Better-educated women especially those with a secondary education have the tendency to achieve better health outcomes for themselves and their children, but by using general numeracy and literacy skills learned at school to acquire health-specific knowledge later in life. It is good to note to note that better educated girls may imply healthier women and healthier children in years to come.(Haines et al 2004). This is a shorter and more direct route to increasing health-specific knowledge and skills through information dissemination, health promotion in the health …show more content…

If countries of the world are to get a more accurate picture of what is really happening. A recent high level meeting on the health goals noted: “It cannot be counted the number of the dead in the majority of the world's poorest countries”. Ironically these are the countries where the disease burden is greatest. In majority of the African countries fewer than ten have vital registration systems that produce workable data. The considerable investments in measuring health outcomes, often to monitor the effectiveness of donor-driven programmes, too often do not strengthen national health information systems. Accurate information system is essential for tracking progress, estimating impact, attributing change to different interventions, and guiding decisions on programme scope and focus. A vital issue is that many different development partners especially those providing financial resources usually impose their own monitoring demands on countries. These are largely intended to suit donors' reporting requirements, rather than to help countries make deliberate decisions. The result is that countries are overwhelmed and fragile information systems are not able to cope. The Health Metrics Network—international agencies, bilateral and multilateral donors, foundations and technical experts seeks to look into this problem by persuading financial partners to focus

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