Chapter I: HEALTH SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT: GOALS, FRAMEWORK AND OVERVIEW.

Chapter 1 of the book "Health Systems Performance Assessment" is presented. It highlights the results of a study that focuses on the work of WHO on health systems performance. It outlines the Organization's specific objectives. The work on health systems performance, created in the Organization in July 1998, was motivated by the problems of health decision-makers on enhancing their efforts on health systems.