Healthcare Systems & its Challenges in Pakistan

Panoramic View Of Challenges And Opportunities For Primary Healthcare Systems In Pakistan.

BACKGROUND Pakistan has a broad system of primary health care facilities to achieve mission of "Health for all". Over the last seven years health expenditure by government of Pakistan has been increased to attain this goal. This study was conducted with the aim to assess all blocks of service readiness (basic equipment, basic amenities, laboratory capacity, standard precautions and essential me...

Security Challenges in Fog Computing in Healthcare

Background and Aim: The Fog Computing is a highly virtualized platform that provides storage, computing and networking services between the Cloud data centers and end devices. Fog computing fits the characteristics of real-time health monitoring systems. In such systems, a large amount of data is acquired from a multitude of bio and environmental sensors. On the other hand, its distribution and...

Forensic psychiatric service provision in Pakistan and its challenges

In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan the law relating to people who are mentally ill, until 2001, was set out by the Lunacy Act of 1912, which was inherited from the British colonial occupiers. In 2001 the Mental Health Ordinance 2001 took its place but only for this federal law to be superseded in April 2010 with the 18th constitutional amendment. As part of that amendment, provinces have becom...

Health Systems Research in Pakistan: Issues, Challenges and Way Forward.

Challenges to Elderly People in Quetta City (Balochistan) Pakistan

Introduction: The present study aims to examine challenges encountered by elderly people in Quetta city of Balochistan. The socio-economic problems faced by elderly and the attitude of family members towards them were explored in this study.  Methods: A random sample of 200 respondents comprising both women and men of age 60 years and above was selected and data was collected through semi-stru...