Empowering Future Health Professionals with Our New Health Systems Brick Collection

ScholarRx is excited to announce the release of the Health Systems Bricks Collection. This new addition, tailored for health professional students, complements the recently launched Global Health Bricks Collection, providing a robust educational framework for future health professionals.

What Sets these Bricks Apart?

The Health Systems Bricks Collection offers a rich exploration of health systems, helping students understand their structure, challenges, and opportunities to drive improvement. Its key features include:

• Comprehensive Scope: The collection presents the essential components of health systems using frameworks like those from the World Health Organization, highlighting structures, approaches, and challenges globally.
• Practical Applications: These resources equip learners to recognize their role in health systems and identify actionable ways to strengthen them.
• Accessible to All: This free collection ensures that health professional students everywhere can access and benefit from these valuable learning materials, breaking down barriers to high-quality education.

Key Learning Highlights

The collection features essential topics, including:

• Health and Well-Being: Discusses the broad concept of health, incorporating social determinants, health inequities, and metrics like QALY, DALY, and EQ-5D to measure outcomes and well-being.
• Health Service Delivery: This chapter explores the four tiers of care—public health, primary, secondary, and tertiary. It also covers the principles of quality care, integrated health services, gatekeeping, and social prescribing.
• Health Workforce: This section highlights the diverse roles within healthcare teams, addresses challenges like the global shortage of health workers, and emphasizes the need for professional development and capacity-building initiatives.
• Health Financing and Governance: This section examines financial models for revenue generation, fund pooling, and service purchasing while addressing leadership and stakeholder collaboration for effective governance.
• People-Centered Health Systems: These systems focus on patient-centered care, emphasizing the importance of patient involvement, advocacy, and tools to enhance healthcare equity and efficiency.

A Collaborative Effort

This collection was developed with input from educators and students worldwide, ensuring relevance across diverse contexts. By integrating these Bricks into your curriculum, you can empower students with the knowledge and skills to address critical challenges in health systems and contribute to their improvement.

Please get in touch with our team for more information or to learn how to integrate our Bricks into your curriculum.