Abadiez, Kristine Mae
Vargas, Clark Kimberly
BSMLS-1
The 6 Building Blocks of the World Health Organization
A health system is made up of all the organizations, resources, and people whose primary
intent is to improve a country's health and health care.
According to the World Health Organization (2010), there are six building blocks, namely,
service delivery, health workforce, health information systems, access to essential medicines,
financing, and leadership, that contribute to the strengthening of health systems in order to meet
the objective of improving people's health.
The first building block is service delivery, which focuses on providing communities with
accessible and high-quality healthcare. It is important and significant since a good service delivery
are those that deliver effective, safe, and quality health interventions to those that need them, like
the community.
The second building block is the health workforce, which pertains to the people that are
responsible for organizing and delivering health services, like doctors, nurses, and other healthcare
professionals, as well as other hospital staff. It is an important part of the system because an
insufficient workforce capacity will lead to poor delivery performance, which can lead to low
customer satisfaction and low profitability prospects.
Health information systems collect data from health and other related sectors. A good
health information system brings all related partners together to ensure that users of health
information have access to reliable and timely data.
An effective system ensures fair access to essential medical products of the best quality,
safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. Its target is to provide medicine that is continuously
available at public or private health facilities or medicine outlets that is within the price that
individuals and the community can afford.
The financing of a health system includes the allocation of money to cover the health needs
of the people and the community. It is important to ensure that all individuals have access to
effective health care.
Leadership and governance in building a health system involve ensuring that strategic
policy frameworks exist and are combined with regulation and attention to system design and
accountability.
According to the World Health Organization (2010), "effective healthcare systems are
dependent on the following pillars, which contribute to ensuring a safe and robust health system."
If all these six components function effectively and deliver their intended results and goals, the
assumption is that the entire health system is strong.
HEALTH OUTCOMES
Program: National Family Planning Program
The National Family Planning Program of the Department of Health is a family
planning program that allows people to attain their desired number of children. It also provides
couples of reproductive age with information and resources to help them plan their families
based on their views and circumstances using legally and medically approved family planning
methods. This program is implemented to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the number of
abortions, lower the incidence of death and disability related to complications of pregnancy and
childbirth and to reduce health risks for women and give them control over their reproductive
lives.
Some of the family planning services include contraceptive services, pregnancy testing
and counseling, preconception health, and sexually transmitted diseases.
References:
MONITORING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HEALTH SYSTEMS.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/258734/9789241564052-eng.pdf
World Health Organization. Contraception. World Health Organization.
https://www.who.int/health-topics/contraception#tab=tab_1
Family Planning | Department of Health website. (n.d.). https://doh.gov.ph/HealthPromotion/family-planning-