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UAE Health Care System & Primary Health Care Delivery
United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven independent states that
united on 2 December 1971. ...
The population of the UAE grew from 500,000 in 1965 to 3,108 million in
2000 (See table 1 & 2). ...
The healthcare system (HSC) consists of a primary, secondary and tertiary
healthcare and preventive medicine. Primary healthcare is the agent of first contact
between the patient and HSC. ‘The World Health Organization sees
it as the linchpin of health services’1. Medical specialists or hospital staff members
provide secondary health care services to patient whose primary care was provided by
the general practitioner who first diagnosed or treated the patient. Tertiary healthcare
offer services that are provided by specialized hospitals equipped with diagnostic and
treatment facilities or by doctors who are uniquely qualified to treat unusual disorders
that do not respond to therapy that is available at secondary care centers Prevention
medicine is a branch of medicine whose main aim is the prevention of disease.
This report will describe the UAE’s healthcare system and the primary
healthcare delivery, and assess its progress in the face of the country’s needs.
The health care services in UAE are mainly provided by the Public Sector and
secondarily the Private Sector. In the Public Sector, there are five independent health
systems; the Federal Ministry of Health in Abu Dhabi, Dubai Department of Health
and Medical Services, and three occupation-specific system (the Police, Army and
Petroleum)2. ...
UAE was one of the first countries that adopted PHC after signing the Alma
Ata declaration and introduced the service in 1984.
Approximate Word count = 1286
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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