Effective Health Care Delivery at the Grassroots: The Primary Health Care Challenge

A health care delivery system is the aggregate of institutions, organizations and persons who enter the health care system, who have responsibilities that include the promotion of health, prevention of illness, detection and treatment of disease, and rehabilitation. Effective health care (EHC) improves the quality of health care by providing the best available evidence on the outcomes, benefits and harms, and appropriateness of drugs, devices and health care services, and by helping health care professionals, patients, policymakers and health care systems. Health system also sometimes refers the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations. In some countries, health system planning is distributed among market participants.