A national health system is a complex system established by public policy to achieve certain socioeconomic goals.  The complex components--structure and instruments--used to establish the architecture of a health system is determined by political, institutional and economic considerations.  Setting a system’s goals is strongly influenced by the social ethics embraced by a society.  The accountability and monitoring of a health system’s performance require measurement and evaluation.  Therefore, the intellectual core of health systems study comes from the intersection of several disciplines—ethics, politics, economics, and evaluation sciences.

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