The team has chosen Cook Islands as the country of choice.
The section I’ve chosen from the WHO six Building Blocks model is ‘Access to essential medicines’.
Instructions are to write a report for the Health Minister of that country using the WHO six Building Blocks model.
800 words for ‘Access to Essential medicines’ section.
300 words for ‘Executive summary’ section.
You are to apply the concepts of indicators, predominance of a particular disease or public health problem and the weaknesses that have contributed to this problem. Your Report will conclude with your recommendations to strengthen the health system of that country.This is to include sensible projects and policy recommendations that would be possible,accompanied by the implications of your policies for the public health problem.
Breakdown of the report:
· Definition: Have definition of what your building block is
· Subsections: to talk about aspects of your building block
· Indicators: Briefly mention a few indicators (maybe use bullet points or a table or can refer to your table to the appendix of the document)
· What department and position in the country contributes to your building block and
· The Organization’s structure and management
· How is the data that they collected managed
· How are other Building Blocks connected together
· Try to make a full circle: Look at the lecture slide layout of information for critical points to add additional key information
· More importantly: use the lecture slides to look for key country information that is NOT there. And use that missing information to talk about in your building block.
Your task is to form a research team of 6 members (one for each building block) and research and critically analyse the health system of a developing country and write a report for the Health Minister of that country using the WHO six Building Blocks model.
Each week you will be able to see how the building blocks are used to examine and analyse aspects of a health system. You need to use these concepts of indicators and other descriptors to identify any weaknesses contributing to public health issues in that country. The case studies also illustrate innovate ways that you could consider to strengthen your health system to address certain health issues.
Your Report will conclude with your policy recommendations to strengthen the health system of that country. This is to include sensible projects and policy recommendations that would be possible, accompanied by the implications of your policies for a public health issue. It is expected that this will be a compilation from the research reports by each individual building block.