Assignment Task
Introduction
Provide an overview of key characteristics of your chosen country such as:
Overall burden of tuberculosis in Pakistan (e.g prevalence/incidence, morbidity, mortality and life expectancy at birth) Some health system indicators in Pakistan for example service utilisation/health service access, hospital bed density, availability of essential medicines and commodities, health worker density and distribution) (use any three of the stated indicators).
- Describe tuberculosis and why it is a challenge for Pakistan
- Include an overview of the assessment for the reader
Main body
Critically explain:
The concept of systems thinking and its application to public health issues.
- The health system building blocks as proposed by the World Health Organisation.
- Why the Nation TB control program of Pakistan and functioning of the building blocks pose a challenge to solve TB in Pakistan.
- How systems thinking can be used to strengthen the health system’s building blocks to reduce the tuberculosis in Pakistan.
Conclusion
Provide a concise summary of all the ideas discussed in the assessment.