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Health policy broadly represents a consensus by the ruling political system of the country on goals and objectives, priorities in the health sector, time frame, and key strategies to achieve health outcomes. The health system in any country enables its people to protect and maintain a state of positive health through delivering preventive, curative, and rehabilitative health services. This chapter introduces the concept of health policy and briefly describes the policy formulation process and discusses framework and approaches for policy review and analysis. Illustrating the National Health Policy-2017 of India, it presents the key steps involved in the policy formulation process. This chapter also discusses the concept, evolution, objectives, and key functions of health systems. The frameworks to understand health systems are also dynamic and need revision with the context changes. This chapter briefly presents different models of health financing and discusses various components of health systems. It also discusses the health systems strengthening framework proposed by WHO that includes six building blocks: service delivery, health workforce, information, medical products, technologies, vaccine, financing, and governance.
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Kumar, S., Mangal, A., Mangal, D.K. (2022). Health Policy and Health System. In: Gupta, S.D. (eds) Healthcare System Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3076-8_2
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