Introduction to Primary Health Care Flashcards
The declaration of Alma-Ata declared that health was a basic human right and adopted what goal?
Health for all by the year 2000.
Primary health care originated in….?
Alma-Ata (USSR) in 1978.
In 2018 the ____________________ re-affirmed the Declarations set at Alma Ata forty years prior and set an agenda for sustainable development in the pursuit of health for all.
Declaration of Astana
According to the AIHM, what is the number one Australian National Health Priority Area?
Cancer Control.
Providing education to a patient recovering from heart attack is considered to be what level of prevention?
Tertiary Prevention.
What is epidemiology?
The study of factors that affect the health of populations.
What is prevalence?
The number of cases of illness that exist in a population during a timeframe.
Teaching a patient how to prevent falling is an example of which Ottawa Charter strategy?
Developing personal skills.
Which action areas of the Ottawa Charter are best reflected in the NSW government initiative that restricted smoking?
Building healthy public policy and creating supportive environments.
Health promotion can not occur with out what?
Education.
How many national health priority areas are there?
9
What are the 9 national health priority areas?
- Cancer control
- Cardiovascular health
- Injury prevention and control
- Mental health
- Diabetes mellitus
- Asthma
- Arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions
- Obesity
- Dementia
The United Nations established how many Sustainable Development Goals?
17
Name the first 5 sustainable development goals?
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Declaration of Alma Ata (1978) states that health is…?
“A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”A basic human right.