Overview of Healthcare Delivery Systems

Session 1 Describe Healthcare Delivery Systems Relevant Knowledge You might recall

that the World Health Organization (WHO 2007) defines health system as follows: “A health

system consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote,

restore or maintain health. This includes efforts to influence determinants of

health as well as more direct health-improving activities. A health system is,

therefore, more than the pyramid of publicly owned facilities that

deliver personal health services. It includes, for example, a mother caring

for a sick child at home; private providers; behaviour change programmes; vector-control