Analysis of Pakistan and Iran Health Care Delivery System

Health plays a key role to maintain human welfare, improves economic conditions, helps in social development, and sustains life. Therefore, the WHO member countries have planned to target their health sectors financing to ensure that all people have the accessibility to free or economical health services at their region. Many countries in the world (developed, developing) are introducing health sectors reform in varying steps and system. Recently, the developing countries in Asia (Philippines, South Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand) and Africa (Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda) have initiated the health sectors reform. The main goal of health sector reform system is to improve the effectiveness of the health care system. Furthermore, the health care system effectiveness is possible by improving the quality of service (technical), and to generate new resources (human, financial, material) for the health care system (Islam, 2002).

The Devolution Plan (2001) guide and provides an opportunity to the health care system to justify the health requirements of the population. Pakistan is a developing country and needs reform in the health care system. For this purpose, Pakistan has shown little basic improvement in the health care system. Unfortunately, Pakistan is facing the worse economic situation which leads to poor health care reform, and is far away from the Millennium Develop Goal (MDGs) of 2015.

This report will focus on brief summary of the Pakistan and Iran health care delivery system and its organization environment (goal, expectation, resources, technology), authority, power, and status structure, decision making process, primary problems, challenges, and strategies to improve our health sector.