Minister of Health Firas Hawari launched a study evaluating primary health care in Jordan, which was implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO) in partnership with the Middle East Network for Community Health and local experts, with the support of the European Union.
The minister said the study is part of a larger effort to strengthen the Kingdom’s health care system and provide “real evidence” of a relentless effort to build a healthy society based on the foundations of prevention, early diagnosis, and continuous medical support for patients.
Jordan has made significant efforts to deliver excellent health care services to all citizens by developing a vast network of comprehensive, primary, and subsidiary health facilities in governorates, districts, and villages, he noted.
Hawari said that the evaluation was based on a methodology that used four studies and resulted in dozens of recommendations, applauding the WHO’s collaboration in producing the study and strengthening the Kingdom’s health system.
WHO representative in Jordan, Jamila Al-Rabi, said the evaluation aimed to identify priority interventions to strengthen Jordan’s primary health care system.
She said that primary health care is a people-centered approach to health that prioritizes prevention over treatment, and that it is the most efficient, fair, and successful strategy, emphasizing that prevention may reduce disease burden and minimize overcrowding in hospital emergency wards.
“Jordan is committed to attaining the SDGs and was a signatory to the Salalah Declaration 2018, which reiterated the commitment to achieving universal health coverage by building equitable, resilient and sustainable health systems,” she said.
According to Al-Rabi, the organization conducted a number of studies in collaboration with the Middle East Network for Community Health and local experts, including evaluating service availability and readiness in the targeted facilities, as well as assessing quality from the perspective of service recipients.
The study advocated for greater governance of health funding, service delivery, human health resources, information systems, medicine and technology.
Source: Jordan News Agency