ESSENTIAL HEALTH CARE IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE Flashcards
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Education of Prevailing Health Problems
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Locally endemic disease prevention amd control
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Expanded Program of Immunization ( EPI )
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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH AND FAMILY PLANNING
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ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION AND SAFE WATER SUPPLY
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ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION AND SAFE WATER SUPPLY
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Nutrition and Food Supply
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Treatment of Communicable & Non- Communicable Diseases/ Conditions
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Supply and Proper Use of Essential Drugs and Herbal Medicine
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DENTAL Health Promotion
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Access to and use of hospitals as Centers of Wellness
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MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION
FOUR PILLARS/CORNERSTONE of PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
● ACTIVE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
● INTRA AND INTER SECTORAL LINKAGES
● USE OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
● SUPPORT MECHANISMS MADE AVAILABLE
PHC MEANS
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
May 1977,
30th 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.
SEPTER 6- 12 , 1978
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PHC in ALMA ATA RUSSIA “ PHC WAS THE KEY TO ATTAIN THE HEALTH FOR ALL “ GOAL
OCTOBER 19, 1979
LETTER OF INTRUCTION ( LOI ) 949
- the legal basis of PHC was signed by
“ Pre. Ferdinand E. Marcos “ which adopted PHC as an approach towards the design,development, and implementation of program focusing on health development at COMMUNITY LEVEL.
RATIONALE FOR ADOPTING PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
○ Magnitude of Health Problems
○ Inadequate and Unequal distribution of health resources.
○ Increasing cost of medical care.
○ Isolation of health care activities from other development activities.
DEFINITION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE:
- Essential Health care is 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.
An improved state of health and quality of life for all people attained through:
SELF - RELIANCE
OBJECTIVES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE:
- Improvement in the level of health care of the community.
- Favorable population growth structure.
- Reduction in the prevailance of preventable , communicable, and other disease.
- Reduction on morbidity and mortality rates especially among infants and children.
- Improvements of Basic Sanitation
PHC was declared in the ALMA ATA CONFERENCE in _____ as a strategy to community health development.
1978
PHC is a strategy aimed to provide essential health care that is:
C - ommunity Based
A - ccessible
P - art and parcel of the total socioeconomic development effort of the nation.
A - cceptable
S - ustainable at an affordable cost.
PHC STRATEGY “C” A P A S
Community Based
