HIS Flashcards
Essential health care based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods, universally accessible to individuals and families with their full participation at cost that the community and country can afford in a spirit of self-resilience and self determination.
Primary health care
It refers to an organized plan of health services
Health care system (Miller-Keane, 1987)
It is rendering of health care services to the people
Health care delivery (Williams-Tungpalan-1981)
This is a network of health facilities and personnel which carries out the task of rendering health care to the people
Health care delivery system (Williams-Tungpalan, 1981)
It is a complex set of organizations interacting to provide an array of health services in the Philippines (Dixon, 1997)
Philippines health care system
Health service delivery was devolved to the 1____ in the 2___, and for many reason, it has not completely surmounted the 3___
1 Local government unit
2 1991
3 fragmentation issue
Health human resources struggles with the problems of 1___,___,___.
1 underemployment, scarcity, skewed distribution
Strong involvement of private sector comprising of ___% of the health system, but regulatory functions of the government have yet to be fully maximized.
50%
Ultimate goal of primary health care is?
Better health for all
Key elements in achieving the goal, better health for all.
Tip: U S P L I
1 Universal coverage to reduce exclusion and social disparities in health
2 service delivery organized around people’s needs and expectation
3 public policy that integrates health in all sector
4 leadership that enhances collaborative model of policy dialogue
5 increase in stakeholders participation
Key elements of Public health care
Mnemonics: elements
Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of identifying, preventing, and controlling them
Locally endemic disease prevention and control
Expanded program of immunization against major infectious disease
Maternal and child health care and family planning
Essential drugs arrangement
Nutritional food supplement, and supply of safe and basic nutrition
Treatment of communicable and non-communicable disease and promoting mental health
Safe water and sanitation
Other elements of primary health care
Mnemonics: erphpf
Expanded option of immunization
Reproductive health needs
Provision of essential technologies in health
Health promotion
Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
Food safety and provision of selected food supplements
Health systems based on PHC will
Mnemonics-btcoc
1 build on the alma-ata principle of equity, universal access, community participation, and intersectoral approaches
2 take account of broader population health issues, reflecting and reinforcing public health functions.
3 create the conditions for effective provision of services to poor and excluded groups
4 organize integrated and seamless care, linking prevention, acute care, and chronic care across all components of the health system
5 continuously evaluate and strive to improve performance
Basic object of PHC
Mnemonic: ifrreidmecmu
1 improve in the level of health care of in the community
2 favorable population growth structure
3 reduction in the prevalence of preventable, communicable, and other diseases
4 reduction of morbidity and mortality rate, especially infants and children
5 extension of essential health services with priority given to the underserved sectors
6 improvement in basic sanitation
7 development of the capability of the community aimed at self-reliance
8 maximizing the contribution of the other sector for the social and economic development of the community
9 equitable distribution of health care
10 community participation
11 multi-sectional approach
12 use of appropriate technology
According to this principle, primary care and other services to meet the main health problems in a community must be provided equally to all individuals irrespective of their gender, age, and caste, urban/rural and
social class.
Equitable distribution of health care
