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Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Health - Fitness and Health Management, grade: 4.51, , language: English, abstract: This article describes what the main components of a national health policy should be, including the political, economic, social, and cultural determinants of health, the most important determinants of health in any country; the lifestyle determinants, which have been the most visible types of public interventions; and the socializing and empowering determinants, which link the first and second components of a national health policy. The individual interventions and the collective interventions. The author discusses the indicators that should be used for each component and for each intervention. The feasibility of this approach depends to a large degree on the political will of the national authorities and the broad understanding of the actual determinants of health. A good first step is the National Health Policy plan developed by the Swedish social democratic government. This article builds on and expands on that model. The National Health Policy thrust represents the collective will of the governments and people of this country to provide a comprehensive health care system that is based on primary health care. It describes the goals, structure, strategy and policy direction of the health care delivery system in Nigeria. It defines the roles and responsibilities of the three tiers of government without neglecting the non-governmental actors. Its long-term goal is to provide the entire population with adequate access not only to primary health care but also to secondary and tertiary services through a well-functioning referral system. Unfortunately, most nation states have taken "health policy" to mean "medical care policy." Medical care, however, is only one variable in a nation's health equation.
The current effort of Mr Eboh is an attempt to look at the management of healthcare in Nigeria from an independent perspective. He seeks to develop new and exciting concepts, employ change management models and enunciate pragmatic strategies for the purpose of promoting a workable health sector in the country. Mr Eboh's many years of management experience in the National Health Service, United Kingdom coupled with his academic background in Health Service Management are quite unique and evident in the way he reviewed the current healthcare in Nigeria and the approach aimed at restructuring and supporting a more potentially effective healthcare planning and delivery systems. This book will no doubt be quite useful for people that develop policies for healthcare services across the boundaries of management structures both in government and private healthcare institutions. Similarly, it will be very valuable for those that wish to develop career in managing the nation's healthcare services, as well as for academics and professionals due to its depth of analysis of healthcare issues.
Since the private health sector is an important, and often dominant, provider of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is the job of governments as the stewards of the health system to engage with it. Increasing the contributions that the existing private health sector is making to public health is an important, but often neglected, element of meeting the daunting health-related challenges facing African nations. This Report presents newly collected data on how and how effectively each country in the Africa region is engaging the respective private health sectors; and how the engagement compares across the region. While the approach taken by governments varies greatly between countries, there is much room for improvement in the Africa region overall to engage more effectively and room for exchange of ideas and good practices on how to do so. Improved solutions on the policy/regulatory side should be supported by effective organization of the private sector itself and by adjustments in donor programs that take the dynamics of the private health sector better into account.