Abstract
According to WHO statistics 2017, amongst health indicators of countries worldwide, Pakistan’s under five children mortality rate has been recorded up to 81.1 per 1000 live births, which is second highest in the list of SAARC countries.1 In Pakistan, over 57% of deaths under 5 years occur during the neonatal period (42 per 1000 live births) and have not changed over the past 6 years.2
Highlights
According to WHO statistics 2017, amongst health indicators of countries worldwide, Pakistan’s under five children mortality rate has been recorded up to 81.1 per 1000 live births, which is second highest in the list of SAARC countries.[1]
It is the right time to sensitize the health sector leadership to understand the complexity of the phenomenon of spending on health so that they may take right decisions in right direction
One of the proven strategies of primary health care and primary prevention in our local context is through promotion of maternal and newborn care practices by implementation of community-based packages, including promotion of essential newborn care and community mobilization
Summary
According to WHO statistics 2017, amongst health indicators of countries worldwide, Pakistan’s under five children mortality rate has been recorded up to 81.1 per 1000 live births, which is second highest in the list of SAARC countries.[1]. There are many underlying reasons but from one perspective is the misalignment of spending on health in our resource constraint set up. WHO benchmark of health expenditure is at least 6 per cent of the GDP but our country is spending much less of its GDP on health for the last 10 years. Health spending has been low but persistently rising in these years.
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