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