Health services include all services dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease, or the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health. They include personal and non-personal health services. Health services are the most visible functions of any health system, both to users and the general public. Service provision refers to the way inputs such as money, staff, equipment and drugs are combined to allow the delivery of health interventions. Improving access, coverage and quality of services depends on these key resources being available; on the ways services are organized and managed, and on incentives influencing providers and users.

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(a) Primary health care, (b) Health workforce, (c) Health systems financing, (d) Patient safety, (e) Pharmaceutical products, (f) Hospitals safe from disasters, (g) Health services: emergencies.