Health reform in Pakistan: a call to action

Pakistan's enormous macroeconomic, internal, and human security challenges coexist alongside the opportunity created by a huge desire for change. With democracy taking root and a new constitutionally ushered era in state governance, The Lancet Series about Pakistan and health focuses on health...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2013-06, Vol.381 (9885), p.2291-2297
Main Authors: Nishtar, Sania, Dr, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Prof, Jafar, Tazeen H, Prof, Ghaffar, Abdul, PhD, Akhtar, Tasleem, FRCP, Bengali, Kaiser, PhD, Isa, Qazi Asmat, PhD, Rahim, Ejaz, MA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Biological and medical sciences
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Democracy
Federal Government
GDP
General aspects
governance
Gross Domestic Product
Health care policy
Health Care Reform - organization & administration
Health facilities
Health Policy
Health Services Accessibility - organization & administration
Human security
Humans
Internal Medicine
Investments
issues and policy
macroeconomics
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Pakistan
Politics
Provinces
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Public sector
Regulation
Regulatory agencies
social welfare
Testing laboratories
Wage & price controls
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Summary:Pakistan's enormous macroeconomic, internal, and human security challenges coexist alongside the opportunity created by a huge desire for change. With democracy taking root and a new constitutionally ushered era in state governance, The Lancet Series about Pakistan and health focuses on health as a nation-building and social-welfare agenda at a time of unprecedented social upheaval and economic hardships in the country. We call for a unified vision for the goal of universal and equitable health access. We provide recommendations for six objectives for policy and action. Higher political priority for health, increased investments, a combination of targeted and universal approaches, action in terms of the social determinants, institutionalisation of the right organisational network, and frameworks for accountability are crucial for the attainment of the health goals in Pakistan.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60813-2