CPH LESSON 2 Flashcards
is the art and science of preventing
disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical
and mental health, sanitation, personal hygiene, control of infectious diseases,
and organization of health service
Public health
is the collective wellbeing of the community members the programs addresses the disparities in the community.
Community Health
address the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime.
Primary healthcare
Made by a group of experts
Technocratic
Public health are:
• Technocratic
• governmental solutions
• Imposing
• Top-down strategy
Community health are
• Democratic
• Societal capabilities
• motivating
• Bottom-up strategy
essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible
Primary health care
country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development. Means that the community is able to generate their finances to support and fund their own health care
self- reliance and self-determination
o 2000-2015
o 8 goals
Millennium development goals
o 2015-2030
o 17goals
Sustainable development goals
1st international declaration of the importance of PHC
1978DeclarationofAlma-Ata:
RA No of Universal Health Care 2019
RA 11223
focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
Sustainability
FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE
QUALITY HEALTH
- Social Environment
- Genetic endowment
- Physical environment
- Behavior
- Health care services
- the process of defining community health problems,
Planning
- Identifying needs and resources, establishing priority goals, and setting out the administrative action needed to reach those goals.
Planning
Putting the plan of care into action
Implementation
systematic and routine collection of information from the program to ensure that the goals are being achieved
Monitoring
Assessing the completed program for its effectiveness and efficiency
Evaluation
Old paradigm:
Disease based
Individuals
Acute care
Fragmentation
Volume of services
New paradigm
Need based
Population health
Continuum of care
Networks of integrated delivery services
Appropriate care
funds for health care services come from the national government
Centralization
More hierarchical levels
Centralization
Those at the bottom have little or no
power for decision making
Centralization
Those at the bottom have no or little
accountability
Centralization
funds for health care services come from the local government
Decentralization
Those at the bottom are empowered
to make decisions
Decentralization
Those at the bottom have more
accountabilities
Decentralization
Lesser hierarchical levels
Decentralization
Strategies for community action:
- Accessibility, acceptability, availability and affordability of health services
- Partnership between the community and health agencies in the provision quality, basic health services
- Community participation
- Self-reliance
- Recognition of interrelationship between health and development
- Social mobilization (a dynamic process of engaging people in action a common goal)
- Decentralization
This terms recognizes that health mus be integrated in all sectors such us transportation, housing, labor, and other laws sectors
Health in all policies
Refers to the delivery of health care from childhood to pubescent up to adulthood
Continuum of care
Type of prevention happen when the causative agents have not entered the body yet
Primary prevention
Type of prevention promotes the early detection and screening of diseases
Secondary prevention
Following international milestones initiated the declaration of primary health care
Alma ata declaration
Providing continuous rehabilitation care to stroke patients in this type of prevention
Tertiary prevention
A dynamic process of engaging people in action for a common goal
Social mobilization
3ps of public health
Prolonging life
Promoting health
Preventing diseases
Ideal ratio of community health workers to household
one CHW:10- 20 households
Use of low cost, appropriate technologies sustainable by the community
Accessibility, acceptability, availability and affordability of health services
Health services are delivered where people live and work
Accessibility, acceptability, availability and affordability of health services
Community discussions done thru small group discussions
Communityparticipation
TRUE OR FALSE
Maximizing the use of traditional herbs for medicine and tapping the skills of traditional healers is an important action strategy
True
TRUE OR FALSE
Community health happens when the government imposes WHO health recommendations to the baranggay
True
True or false
Collaboration among government agencies, non-government agencies and community groups will improve the health of a community
True
