Pakistan's health system: performance and prospects after the 18th Constitutional Amendment.

Devolution of health sector in Pakistan after 18th constitutional amendment: issues and possible solutions.

Political and economic unfairness in health system of Pakistan: a hope with the recent reforms.

BACKGROUND For the last few years, Pakistan's health system has faced numerous challenges pertaining to human resource and its deployment, resource allocation among the different tiers of the health care system, infrastructure development and unfair access to care. The enactment of the recent constitutional amendment has made the health system's situation even more uncertain than before. METH...

Political determinants of Health: Lessons for Pakistan

There is much concern about the capacity of the health system of Pakistan to meet its goals and obligations. Historically, the political thrust has been absent from the health policy formulation and this is reflected in the low and stagnant public allocations to health. Successive political leaderships have averred from considering healthcare is a common good rather than a market commodity and ...

نگرشی نو به امضای قوانین در حقوق اساسی ایران

  According to the Article 123 of the constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran “The President is obliged to sign legislation approved by the Assembly or the result of a referendum, after the legal procedures have been completed and it has been communicated to him. After signing, he must forward it to the responsible authorities for implementation”. In contrast to its seemingly simple wordings, ...

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 In 2001 the Mental Health Ordinance 2001 took its place but only for this federal law to be superseded in April 2010 with the 18th constitutional amendment.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...