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Abstract

Globally health is a critical agenda and an inherent component of any development initiative. Efforts made to ensure equitable and quality health services has always been challenged but noticeable progress has also been registered. Compared to 1978 when Primary Health Care was declared in Alma Ata, there are great progress made changes of life expectancy, risk of dying before the age of 5 years and the spectrum of disease is quite different due to demographic and epidemiologic transitions and consequent changes in lifestyle, climate change and steady urbanization and industrialization.(1) The question however is the change in quality of life and the level to which the problem as we see today threaten health of the public. Globally, advocacy for quality of health care, which is key component of the right to health, and the route to equity and dignity, has contributed to an improved wellbeing of the public at large. Due to such global advocacy, many countries have shown improvements in their health care provision at large and to targeted section of the population in particular. Yet, there remains disparities between countries in terms of how health provision is structured, who benefits from the provision and the role of citizens in such a process.