Health Care Interventions Flashcards
What is primary health care prevention?
- Primary health care provides essential health care to individuals and families in a community close to where people live and work so that it is accessible to all.
- This model is based on the needs of people in the community
What does the primary mental health care deal with
- It deals with basic health care problems, promoting nutrition, maternal and child care, family planning and prevention of disease
NB: IT PREVENTS AND REDUCES
Primary Healthcare is staffed by who?
- Staffed by nurses , interns or volunteer workers
What do they do (primary health care)
- They provide diagnosis and treatment of people with mental disorders and strategies are put in place to prevent mental disorders by applying psychological and human behavioral science skills
What is the goal of primary mental health care prevention?
- Is to prevention the onset of mental health issues by reducing incidents of pathologies
- The goal is reached by eliminating causative agents, reducing risk factors and enhancing host resistance.
What are the functions of the primary Healthcare prevention on the ecological model?
- It helps people to cope with life including mental health support.
- It helps to cope with life including mental health support and education such as parent training or drug and substance abuse education.
What does primary Healthcare do based on the phenomelogical model?
1.helps develop social systems that reduces the effects of issues such as stress by putting the community with other people in touch with other people with similar situations.
What is the primary Healthcare aimed at?
- Aimed at eradicating stressful agents
How do you promote primary health?
- Is promoted through seminars and informal workshops presented by a community members, volunteers or psychology interns that encourage healthy living through:
- Awareness of approaches and how to use them in mental health.
- Teacher, parent and student integration and structures to promote and protect their mental health.
- Formal school curriculum, school ethos,environment, community and partnerships
- Providing the first point contact of many.
What does the SECONDARY MENTAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES DO?
- Define mental Healthcare challenges as Early Identication and
- prompt treatment with the goal of reducing the prevalence, duration and impact of challenges experienced in the community
What is the main aim of SECONDARY HEALTHCARE PREVENTION?
- It’s main aim is Crisis intervention and Public Education and it targets mainly children through identifying and supporting family structures
Who staff the Secondary Healthcare
- COUNSELLORS/Psychologists and try to initiate treatment and alleviate suffering
How is the secondary mental Healthcare promoted?
- It’s promoted through health services at hospitals and casualty departments or referal from primary care level through
A. Outpatients clinic
B.targets audience and leaflets
C. Information services such as informal workshops presented by community members, volunteers or psychology interns
Tertiary Mental Healthcare what does it do?
- Attempt to reduce the prevalence of residual defects and disabilities by hoping those with chronic mental illness to reach their highest level of functioning
What does the tertiary mental Healthcare service based on?
- Is based in REHABILITATION AND ADRESSES THE MOSE SEVERE FORM OF MENTAL ILLNESS which is debilitating and disabling
- People may be removed from society to receive treatment and rehabilitation before being returned to the community.
- It also attempts to adress the psychological, social and medical needs to the community.
