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Health Policy-Making in a Transformative State

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The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the Qatari health system’s transformation and to assess its performance using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Systems Framework (WHO 2007). As shown in Fig. 7.1, in the WHO Framework a health system is conceptualized as six building blocks that include governance; financing; workforce; service delivery; health information systems; and medical products, vaccines, and technologies. In a well-functioning health system, these components are effectively built to produce universal healthcare coverage that provides access to high quality and safe services to produce improved population health outcomes, financial protection against the costs of ill-health, satisfactory responsiveness to the legitimate expectations of the population, and improved efficiency throughout the health system. This chapter discusses Qatar’s health system using the WHO Health Systems Framework and assesses achievements in relation to the six building blocks and system outputs.

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  1. Policy Affairs of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH), Doha, Qatar

    Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali

  2. Office of the Assistant Secretary, Supreme Council of Health (SCH) Qatar, Doha, Qatar

    Orsida Gjebrea

  3. Supreme Council of Health (SCH) Qatar, Doha, Qatar

    Chloe Sifton

  4. Former Minister of Public Health, Qatar, Doha, Qatar

    Abdulrahman Alkuwari

  5. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Rifat Atun

  6. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Rifat Atun

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Ali, F.M.H., Gjebrea, O., Sifton, C., Alkuwari, A., Atun, R. (2016). Health Policy-Making in a Transformative State. In: Tok, M., Alkhater, L., Pal, L. (eds) Policy-Making in a Transformative State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46639-6_7

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