Emphasis on Topics Community Health Flashcards
Family planning
To ensure that individuals and couples have the information and services to plan the timing, number, and spacing of pregnancies.
Antenatal care
To provide vitamin supplements, vaccinations, and screen for risk factors in order to prevent complications where possible, and to ensure that complications of pregnancy are detected early and treated appropriately.
Obstetric care
To ensure that all birth attendants have the knowledge, skills and equipment to perform a clean and safe delivery, and to ensure that emergency care for high-risk pregnancies and complications is made available to women who need it.
Post-natal care
To ensure that postpartum care is provided to mother and baby, including lactation assistance, provision of family planning services, and managing danger signs.
Post-abortion care
To prevent complications where possible and ensure that complications of abortion are detected early and treated appropriately; to refer other reproductive health problems; and to provide family planning methods as needed.
STD/HIV/AIDS
Control to screen, prevent, and manage transmission to baby; to assess the risk for future infection; to provide voluntary counselling and testing; to encourage prevention; and where appropriate to expand services to address mother to child transmission..
EMONC - Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care
- Parenteral treatment of infection (antibiotics)
- Parenteral treatment of severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (e.g. MgSO4)
- Treatment of PPH (eg. uterotonics)
- Manual vacuum aspiration of retained products of conception
- Assisted vaginal delivery (e.g., vacuum assisted delivery)
- Manual removal of placenta
- Newborn resuscitation
Agencies Under the Ministry of Health
- Ghana Medical and Dental Council
- Pharmacy Council Ghana
- Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives
- Alternative Medicine Council
- Food and Drug Authority
- Private Hospitals and Maternity Home Board
- National Health Insurance Authority
- Ghana National Drugs Programme
- Ghana Health Service
- Christian Health Associations of Ghana
The importance of pre-employment examinations
To detect existing diseases pre-employment such as DM, HPT and other musculoskeletal disorders among many others.
KVIP: Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines
It is designed with double pits. The double pit VIP has almost the same design as the single pit VIP plus a second pit that allows it to be used continuously and permits safer and easier emptying.
- By using two pits, one pit can be used, while the content of the second rests, drains, reduces in volume, and degrades.
- When the second pit is almost full (the excreta is 50 cm from the top of the pit), it is covered, and the content of the first pit is removed.
- Due to the extended resting time (at least 1 or 2 years after several years of filling), the material within the pit is partially sanitized and humus-like.
Causes of Road Traffic accidents
Human: Negligence, Alcoholism and unqualified driver
Vehicle: Defective brakes
Road: Poor lighting and street markings.
World TB Day
24th March
World Health Day
7 April
World Immunization Week
Last Week of April
Word Malaria Day
25 April
