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The Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office Health System Profiles are
country-based reports that provide a description and analysis of the health
system and reform initiatives in the respective countries. The profiles
seek to provide comparative information to support policy-makers and
analysts in the development of health systems in the Eastern Mediterranean
Region. The profiles can be used to learn about various approaches to the
organization, financing and delivery of health services; describe the process,
content, and implementation of health care reform programmes; highlight
challenges and areas that require more in-depth analysis; and provide a tool
for the dissemination of information of health systems and the exchange of
experiences of reform strategies between policy-makers and analysts in
different countries.
These profiles have been produced by country public health experts in
collaboration with the Division of Health Systems and Services Development,
WHO, EMRO based on standardized templates, comprehensive guidelines and a
glossary of terms developed to help compile the profiles. For maintaining
consistency and comparability in the sources of information, effort have been
made to use as a first source, the information published are available from a
national source such as Ministries of Health, Finance, Labor, Welfare; National
Statistics Organizations or reports of national surveys. In case
information is not available from these sources then unpublished information
from official sources or information published in unofficial sources are
used. As a last resort, country-specific information published by
international agencies and research papers published in international and local
journals are used. Since health systems are dynamic and ever changing,
any additional information is welcome, which after proper verification, can be
put up on the website of the Regional Observatory as this is an ongoing
initiative and these profiles will be updated on regular intervals.
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