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As
a country health profile, this document is not meant to be an exhaustive
documentation on any specific area of health in Bhutan. To include all minute
data on every health area will firstly make the paper very long. Secondly not
all the health areas have detailed data and thus inclusion of details on some
areas will make the document unbalanced. And thirdly, if a reader wishes to
go into details of any specific subject mentioned in the document there are
the reports of those in-depth studies for some of them. Besides, the WHO
Country Office in Thimphu is presently constructing
a web-site which will include detailed statistics on most of health aspects
in Bhutan.
In
Chapter I, this document looks into the history, culture and development
philosophy of the country as a background to the starting of the modern
health care system in Bhutan.
Current political, economic, and demographic trends are explored in Chapter
II. Chapter III and IV discusses about the health and environment and the
resources for health. Chapter V looks at the development of the overall
health system in Bhutan,
which is followed by a review of achievements in different areas of health in
Chapter VI. Chapter VII discusses in brief all the health programmes
that are in place in Bhutan
as of 2002. The last Chapter deals with the various challenges the country is
facing in its health development endeavour and how
the country is preparing to meet these challenges.
To
give the reader a broad overview of Bhutan's health situation, it is
hoped that the document is adequate.
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