The Complications and Challenges Confronted by Healthcare System in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: A Review

Abstract

There are countless determinants of poor health status and poor population planning outcomes, socio-economic, biological, environmental, cultural and institutional. The present study investigated briefly the health system, infrastructure and strategies formulated by the government viva comprehensive development strategy, incorporating priorities included in the draft national health policy, national programs designed to complete the health-related issues, the poverty reduction strategy and the medium term development framework in health sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The present scenario offerings a picture that could be devastating for already scarce resources available at the disposal of the health care system. Increase in population size creates a number of challenges both for growth and development in the current macro-economically challenged environment, as well as security complexion. Increasing population size has direct bearing on the health status of the country, which is already poor, as evidenced by indicators reflected in a compilation of health system and health care services.