Adraro, Admasu (PhD)Ademo, Million2018-07-032023-11-192018-07-032023-11-192011-05http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/5681The development and provision of equitable and acceptable standard of health service to all segments of population of Ethiopia has been a major objective of the 1993 national health policy. The health sector strategy adopted to implement the policy and focuses on giving comprehensive and integrated public health services by doing in cooperation with the concerned bodies to minimize challenges hindering the service delivery and to give equitable and whole addressing service. Hence healthy society is the key for development, studying about service provision and its challenges as a planner and indicating possible mechanisms to balance the existing resources and the service need is also beneficial. So, this research study is done on the objective of assessing the status of provision of public health service, identifying the main challenge and analysing its cause as well as determining the possible measures being implemented to deliver fair health service with existing challenges and available resources is done by taking Masha Woreda as a study area. This paper includes literatures reviewed from different sources, which are related to the studied topic and strategies being implemented to make fair provision of health services. It took 4 sample Kebeles which are selected purposively on distance difference from the capital of the Woreda. One hundred forty two samples were selected randomly from each purposively sampled Kebeles as a primary data sources and written document such as annual reports and strategic plans from the Woreda health department as a secondary data sources. Data are gathered from these sources by using both open ended and closed ended questionnaires semi structured interviews of households of the Kebeles. The data gathered from the mentioned sources are analysed by using SPSS tools like cross tabulations, tables showing percentages and frequenciesenGeography and Environmental StudiesThesis