CHN NCM 113 Flashcards
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World Health Assembly decided that the main health
target of the government and WHO is the attainment of a level of health
that would permit them to lead a socially and economically productive
life by the year 2000
May 1977 -30th
Letter of Instruction (LOI) 949, the legal basis of
PHC was signed by Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos, which adopted PHC as an
approach towards the design, development and implementation of
programs focusing on health development at community level.
October 19, 1979
First International Conference on PHC in Alma
Ata, Russia (USSR) The Alma Ata Declaration stated that PHC was the
key to attain the “health for all” goa
September 6-12, 1978
essential health care made universally accessible to
individuals and families in the community by means
acceptable to them, through their full participation and at
cost that the community can afford at every stage of
development.
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE:
HEALTH FOR ALL FILIPINOS by the
year 2000 AND HEALTH IN THE HANDS
OF THE PEOPLE by the year 2020.
▪ An improved state of health and quality of
life for all people attained through SELF
RELIANCE
Goal of Primary Health Care
Key Strategy to Achieve the Goal
Partnership with and Empowerment of the
people –
Two Levels of Primary Health Care Workers
Barangay Health Workers and Intermediate level health workers
.4 A’s
Accessibility, Availability,
Affordability & Acceptability,
Appropriateness of health services
- It enhances people participation or governance, support system provided by the
Government, networking and developing secondary leaders.
Social Mobilization
This ensures empowerment and that empowerment can only be facilitated if the
administrative structure provides local level political structures with more
substantive responsibilities for development initiators
Decentralization
Elements of Primary Health Care
- Education for Health
- Locally Endemic Disease Control
- Expanded Program on Immunization
- Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning
- Environmental Sanitation and Promotion of Safe
Water Supply - Nutrition and Promotion of Adequate Food Supply
- Treatment of Communicable Diseases and
Common Illness - Supply of Essential Drugs
MAJOR STRATEGIES OF PRIMARY
HEALTH CARE
- Elevating Health to a Comprehensive and
Sustained National Effort. - Promoting and Supporting Community
Managed Health Care - Increasing Efficiencies in the Health
Sector - Advancing Essential National
Health Research
Four Cornerstones/Pillars In Primary Health
Care
1.Active Community Participation
2.Intra and Inter-sectoral Linkages
3.Use of Appropriate Technology
4. Support mechanism made available
- A group of people with
common characteristic or
interest living together
within a territory or
geographical boundary
Community
“a state
of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease
or infirmity
health