Author: Kemal Surji

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Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781974202041

The book illustrates the feeble points in the healthcare delivery system in Kurdistan region by utilizing the studies relating to the significant areas of medical care that are vulnerable to poor quality health services. A healthcare system with a weak leadership, unsupervised and unsystematic practical training for newly graduated healthcare providers, unsafe medical practice, low patient satisfaction and uncontrolled distribution and prescription of medications, create an atmosphere for fatal medical error and medical waste. Therefore, growing awareness in improving population's health is significantly important to the growth of a society for developing countries where the healthcare system is immature, brittle, and susceptible. For the past decades, the reform for health care system has been underway in many developing regions with a specific emphasis on the poor and disadvantaged population that face financial barriers to access quality medical care and bare financial risk due to the ailment. As populace's economic condition fall in jeopardy because of illness, they tumble into the medical poverty trap. Additionally, the book will bring awareness regarding fragile areas of health care system that is significantly important and in need of immediate reform. Areas of concentration include: * Lack of administrative and leadership expertise * Medication administration without regard for standard guideline * Misuse and overuse of prescription antibiotics * Low patient satisfaction with the quality healthcare provided by the public facilities * Government leadership * The Vital recommendations for a well-functioning health system based on current state of region's health care system to improve future policy-making to allow the strategy for better health care scheme that improves the society's well-being.