Factors Affecting Health Seeking Behavior and Health Services in Pakistan
Khudija Mushtaq, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Syed Amir Gilani
Abstract: Health seeking practices and well-being management has been considered and the determinants are divided into physical, financial, social and political environments. Health knowledge as well as the activities is the key elements that ensure high quality of health. The audit found clear practices that pursue differences in sexual orientation, social conditions, infection occurrences and family economic conditions. In this way, an evidence-based approach must be planned by establishing an understanding of the way happiness practices and social insurance are used, and giving enough credibility to all determinants. By focusing on the benefits (network) factors caused by environment, financial variables, training levels, social beliefs and the human service framework itself, it is feasible to improve the requirements for the use of solid behavior and physical medical services. Men are considered to be the main head of a family. Men’s instruction level is considered higher than women because men are dominant in our society.
Received: November 18, 2019
Revised: December 27, 2019
Accepted: December 31, 2019
doi.org/10.21089/njhs.51.0030
Health Care Delivery System of Pakistan and Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis
Khudija Mushtaq, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Syed Amir Gilani
Abstract: Health care delivery system is fair distribution, organization, and arrangement of health resources that serves best for any country’s population efficiently and effectively for the achievement of organizational goals. Health care services are the multiple services providing to an individual, families, and communities by health care providers who are skilled to prevent disease, promote health, cure illness for the purpose of maintaining and restoring good health. Human development and economic solidarity can be increased ultimately due to better health that labor of a country. Productive human capital resources and healthy labor force can be achieved by planned healthcare services by the government for its people. Worldwide, health regions contrasts from country to country, it depends on how much costs on health is been efficiently utilized. The primary contributors in health care services are private health sectors, donors, out of pocket expenditures in the most of developing countries which may increase human capital and economic growth of the country as, public health sectors remains deprived due to structural fragmentation, lack of resources, and functional inabilities. In this article we discuss about the healthcare delivery system of Pakistan versus Bangladesh such as organizational structure, analysis of both the healthcare systems, and some recommendations to improve healthcare reform and its application.
Received: November 26, 2019
Revised: March 18, 2020
Accepted: April 08, 2020
doi.org/10.21089/njhs.51.0035
Coronavirus – Do We Know Enough?
Shahzad Ali Jiskani
Abstract: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), previously called as 2019-nCoV, was emerged from Wuhan, China in December 2019. It is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). By 22 March 2020, 323,265 people were infected from this virus, including 13,745 deaths globally. It is declared as pandemic by World Health Organization as it involved 185 countries of the world. World Health Organization also declared it as 6th public health emergency of international concern. COVID-19 presents as various outcomes; asymptomatic (carrier), pneumonia and acute respiratory disease. People of all ages can be affected from this virus but adult population is observed to be involved in high ratio. Additionally, there is possibility that infection can be spread as nosocomial infection to patients and healthcare workers. On chest imaging, ground – glass opacity with bilateral involvement is seen as most common abnormality in patients with pneumonia. Older patients are prone to develop more severe disease as compared to young population. Patients with underlying chronic co-morbidities are also more prone to develop poor outcome. Till now, specific treatment of COVID-19 is not available; however clinical trials are under investigation to see the clinical efficacy of various therapeutic agents in China e.g. remdesivir and chloroquine etc. At this time, standard infection control measures are only possible means for prevention of SARS-CoV-2.
Received: March 24, 2020
Revised: May 14, 2020
Accepted: May 15, 2020
doi.org/10.21089/njhs.51.0042
