HEALTHCARE 2 Flashcards
Current Health Situation that Explain the Rationale of PHC
- Magnitude of Health Problems
- Inadequate and Unequal distribution of Health Resources
- Increasing Cost of Medical Care
- Isolation of Health Care Activities from Other Developmental Activities
Essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation and a cost that the community and country can afford at any stage of development.
Primary Health Care
PHC vision
Health for all Filipinos and Health in the hands of the people by the year 2020
MISSION of PHC
To strengthen the health care system by increasing opportunities and supporting the conditions wherein people will manage their own health care.
Objectives of PHC
- Improvement in the level of health of the community
- Favorable population growth and structure
- Reduction in morbidity and mortality rates especially among infants and children
- Reduction in the prevalence of preventable, communicable and other diseases
- Extension of essential health services with priority given to underserved sectors
- Improvement in basic sanitation
- Development of the capability of the community aimed at self reliance
- Maximization of the contribution of all sectors other than health to the social and economic development of the community
History of PHC during 1970
Phil, CBHP, NCCP
Phil,CBHP, NCCP 1970, Alma Ata, LOI 949, Botika sa Barangay and Health for All, PCHD 1991, LGC of 1991
History of PHC
“Health for all by Year 2000”
•Declared during First International
Conference on Primary Health Care
•Held in Alma Ata, USSR
•Happened on September 6-12, 1978
•Organized by the World Health Organization
Where was “Health for all by Year 2000” declared?
First International Conference on Primary Health Care
where was the First International Conference on Primary Health Care held?
Alma Ata, USSR
September 6-12, 1978
When was the first International Conference on Primary Health Care?
who organized the First International Conference on Primary Health Care
World Health Organization
who declared the HEALTH IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE BY 2020
Ferdinand E. Marcos
formula of PHC
PARTNERSHIP + EMPOWERMENT OF PEOPLE = PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
4 characteristics of PHC
EFFECTIVE, ACCESSIBLE, ACCEPTABLE, SUSTAINABLE
9 elements of PHC
- Education on Health
- Control of Communicable Diseases/ Locally endemic disease control
- Immunization/ Expanded Program on Immunization
- Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning
- Provision of Essential Drugs
- Adequate Food and Proper Nutrition
- Provision of Medical Care and Emergency Treatment
- Treatment of Locally Endemic Diseases
- Safe Water & Environmental Sanitation