Family Wellness, Health Promotion and Maintenance Flashcards
PAFP vision
promotion of optimum family health and quality care attained through the Family Wellness Program
PAFP meaning
Philippine Academy of Family Physicians
Organization that Evolved from the 1989 Family Health Development and Advocacy through Primary Health Care initially funded by UNICEF
PAFP
Year when the PAFP requires all accredited departments to maintain a Family Health Care Program and a Community Health Program
1990
Year when DOH declares all its hospitals as centers of wellness
1994
Year when WHO emphasized importance of promoting healthy lifestyle and health education
1995
2 major legal documents in the Philippines which help ensure health promotion and maintenance thereof in the country
- Section 15 of the 1987 constitution
2. Executive Order 227 (formerly 209)
The State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them
Section 15 of the 1987 constitution
It is maintaining the different components of health in sufficient amounts and in balance with one another
Wellness
Health and behavior linked together
Wellness
Family practice sees health maintenance an important part of the whole treatment regimen
Wellness
How is Patient awareness improved
- enables individuals to make decisions that can improve health status, minimize or prevent disease or prevent death
- Support for health promoting behaviors
3 goals Family physicians should take the opportunity to…..
- Modify patient behavior
- Provide education about illness
- promote health by relating present condition to previous unhealthy behavior
Helps the patients and their families know what to expect during their lifetime, especially on the condition of their health
Anticipatory Guidance
provides personalized instructions and education
Anticipatory guidance
important addition to the proper physical examination
Anticipatory guidance
anticipatory guidelines allow physicians to
- program the guidance
- clear up misconceptions
- introduce new information
- reinforce healthy practices
- emphasize deleterious effects of unhealthy lifestyle choices
Young growing families who are within the reproductive age group have embraced responsible parenthood as a way of life, thus practicing
- Family planning
- Maternity Care
- Proper Child Care
Strategies / Approaches for young couple family wellness
Prenatal care • Family planning • Child rearing class • Parenting seminars • Nutrition program
This form of counseling provides anticipatory guidance for the upcoming stages of pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period
Prenatal Care
Both focus on prevention or detection of potential complications to the pregnant woman, the fetus, and the newborn
Preconception counseling and prenatal care
Identifying women with _______ facilitates provision of anticipatory guidance regarding proper referral to a suitably equipped facility during delivery
High risk of complications
3 Hypertensive disease of pregnancy
- Headache or edema
- Proteinuria
- ACE-I (Angiotensisn converting enzyme inhibitor)
common among teen-age pregnant women
Iron deficiency anemia
How doe iron deficiency anemia be determined during first trimester of pregnancy
HB determination
can lead to premature labor and subsequent UTI in a pregnant woman
Asymptomatic bacteriuria
How is asymptomatic bacterium assessed?
Pelvic examination with culture of cervix or urethral discharges
USPSTF recommends urine culture in pregnant women at _____ weeks ____ or at ______
12 to 16 weeks, AOG, First prenatal visit
blood testing for pregnant mother to determine what?
Hepatitis B infection
Part of PhilHealth newborn care package
- first dose of anti-hepatitis vaccine
2. Newborn screening
Indicates glucose intolerance when first detected during pregnancy can lead to macrosomia
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Prenatal genetic screening for what and how long?
amniocentesis from 15 to 18 weeks AOG
single best predictor of neonatal survival
Low birth weight / prematurity
Newborn screening process
done 48 hours after birth
may be screened again after 2 weeks
Act stating that Newborns shall be screened after 24 hours of life but not later than 3 days from complete delivery
Republic Act 9288 or the Newborn Screening Act of 2004
Act stating that If born ill, they may be tested by 7 days of age
Republic Act 9288 or the Newborn Screening Act of 2004
Diseases screened for under the Republic Act 9288 or the Newborn Screening Act of 2004
- Congenital hyperthyroidism
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Galactosemia
- Phenylketonuria
- Maple syrup urine disorder
- G6PD deficiency
Republic Act 9709 or the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Act of 2009
- To Ensure hearing loss screening
- To Invoke policies for hearing screening programs
- To Train practitioners for screening research
- To Establish screening database
- To Ensure linkage to diagnosis
- To develop public policy in early hearing detection
- To develop models which ensure effective screening
AAP recommends visual screening for children to start at ____ to ___ years
birth to 3 years
Focuses of visual screening
- External inspection of the eyes and lids
- Ocular motility assessment
- Pupil examination
- Red reflex examination
Common problems in infants
Colic and atopic dermatitis
How to prevent Colic?
Elimination of allergenic foods from the maternal diet
How to prevent Atopic dermatitis
Delaying introduction of solid foods until 6 months of age
7 Counselling and Anticipatory Guidance for Children Birth to 6 months
- Normal functions of infants
- Iron, Vit D and E nutritional supplementation
- Milk intake ≤ 32 oz, juices 8 to 16 oz
- Parents should not leave the infant alone in bed
- Pets should not be allowed near the child
- Anticipatory guidance on child feeding especially during feeding transitions, energy needs and physical activity is helpful.
- It should start early, be consistent and continue throughout the preschool years.
leading cause of death among children
Injuries
Counselling and Anticipatory Guidance for Children 7 months to 2 years
- Parents should be counseled about temper tantrums
2. Nutrition and weaning, development, discipline, toilet training, oral hygiene, regular exercise and safety
Counselling and Anticipatory Guidance for Children 3 to 6 years
- Health and hygiene
- sleep and leisure
- Separation
- school readiness
- No more bottle
- electronic entertainment control
- chores and responsibilities
7 Counselling and Anticipatory Guidance for Children 7 to 12 years
- Independence and responsibilities
- Fitness and diet
- sexual development
- Immunization
- Psychosocial development
- speech
- hearing and vision
very young children are in a great state of health if: (5 of them)
- Immunized
- Normal nutrition
- Breastfed
- Normal with mental and physical
- No existing intestinal parasites
7 strategies in having your child grow strong and healthy
- Immunization program
- Growth monitoring
- Breastfeeding campaign
- Nutrition program
- Development monitoring
- Psycho-social development
- Control of Parasitism program
- School Health program
5 Adolescent care components (Mostly comprising it)
- BMI
- Nutrition and Vitamin D
- Social life
- Accidents
- Sexual health
Adolescent children of such families are not involved in adolescent problems such as:
- Drug addiction
- Misbehavior in school
- Premarital sex
Strategies in avoiding these
- Drug control programs
- Sex education
- Sports program
- Health risk assessment
- School Health Program
- Out of school youth project
Elderly care components (Mostly comprising it)
- Dietary and physical risk and activities
- BMI
- Cardio, pulmo-, osteo-, and dental related disease/injury and CANCER
- Smoking
- Immunization
Immunization for elderly more than 60 years old
Zoster vaccine
Immunization for elderly more than 65 years old
pneumococcal vaccine
Immunization for elderly more than 50 years old
influenza vaccine
peak bone mass acquired in what stage of life
Adolescence
Objectives of Family Wellness and Health Consciousness Program for Families with Ill-health members
During state of ill health or disease, families consult their family physicians at the earliest stage of illness and have improved compliance to management
strategies in dealing with families with Ill-health members
- Send to a Morbidity clinic
- Send to Health education
- Send to Palliative center
Objectives Family Wellness and Health Consciousness Program for Families with Chronically Ill members
Members support each other especially during ill-health and rehabilitation
strategies in dealing with families with chronically Ill-health members
Counselling program
Risk assessment for families with chronically Ill-health members
- Medical and family history
- Diet and nutrition
- Tobacco and alcohol use
- exercise activities
- Sexual history
- Occupational and Environmental History
- Stressors and Coping Mechanisms
- Support Systems
hazardous drinking for men
more than 4 drinks at one time or greater than 14 drinks weekly
hazardous drinking for women
more than or equal to 3 drinks at one time or greater than 7 drinks weekly for women
Entails affirming health-promoting behaviors as well as motivating patients to modify those that lead to illness
Lifestyle counseling
Laboratory exams, x-rays, ultrasound, electrocardiogram, other diagnostic tests
Screening
Vaccines may not always be beneficial. There are certain_____ that every family physician must be familiar with.
contra indications in administering
is the use of drugs to prevent or delay the occurrence of a disease.
Chemoprevention
Drugs that Decreases the incidence of breast cancer in up to 50% of healthy women at increased risk
Selective estrogen receptor modulators
Drugs that prevent colon cancer
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, calcium and selenium
Drugs that protect against ovarian cancer
Long term use of oral contraceptives
Drug that guards fetuses of pregnant women against neural tube defects
Folic acid
Drug that prevents spread of serious infectious conditions among close contacts of infected individuals
Chemoprophylaxis
Drugs for household family members or close contacts of individuals with meningococcal disease
rifampicin or ciprofloxacin