LESSON 1 Flashcards
What is the combination of resources, organization, financing, and management that delivers health services to the population?
Health System
What is the top ministry responsible for health in the Philippines?
Department of Health (DOH)
According to WHO (2000), what is defined as “all organizations, institutions, resources, and people whose primary purpose is to improve health”?
Health System
What is the major problem of health care in the Philippines?
Lack of government hospitals and funds
What is the primary goal of a health system?
Improving the health of populations
What term refers to providing satisfactory health services and engaging people as active partners in health care?
Responsiveness
What term refers to providing social and financial risk protection in health?
Fair Health Financing
What is the most visible product of a health system?
Health Service Provision
What refers to generating the essential physical resources such as medications, human resources, and medical equipment?
Health Service Inputs
What is the main responsibility of the government in the health system, including setting policies and overseeing the entire system?
Stewardship
What term refers to raising and pooling resources to pay for health services?
Health Financing
What are the six building blocks of the WHO Health Systems Framework?
Service Delivery, Health Workforce, Health Information System, Health Products/Vaccines/Technologies, Health Financing, Leadership & Governance
What law was adopted in 1979 that promoted participatory management of the local health care system?
Primary Health Care Strategy (LOI 949)
What law transferred the responsibility of providing health services to local government units in 1991?
Local Government Code (RA 7160)
What law was passed in 2008 to ensure access to affordable quality drugs and medicines?
Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act (RA 9502)
What is the decentralized structure of the health system in the Philippines that includes national offices and LGUs?
Local Government Units (LGUs)
What is the highest level of health care facilities that offer highly technological and sophisticated services?
Tertiary Level
What is the lowest level of health care facilities in the Philippines?
Primary Level
What are the three levels of primary health care workers?
Village Health Workers, Intermediate Level Health Workers, First-Line Hospital Personnel
What diagram is used to analyze the causes of a problem in a process?
Fishbone Diagram (Ishikawa Diagram, Cause-and-Effect Diagram)
What are the three goals of a health system?
Improving the health of populations
Improving the responsiveness of the health system
Providing fair health financing
What are the four key functions of a health system?
Health Service Provision
Health Service Inputs
Stewardship
Health Financing
What are the six building blocks of the WHO Health Systems Framework?
Service Delivery
Health Workforce
Health Information System
Health Products, Vaccines, and Technologies
Health Financing
Leadership and Governance
What are the eight essential elements of Primary Health Care?
Education on health problems and their prevention
Locally endemic disease prevention and control
Expanded immunization program
Maternal and child health care (including family planning)
Essential drugs arrangements
Nutritional food supplement and adequate safe nutrition
Treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases
Safe water and sanitation
What are the three levels of health care facilities?
Primary Level
Secondary Level
Tertiary Level
What are the five key elements for better Primary Health Care?
Universal coverage to reduce exclusion and social disparities
Service delivery organized around people’s needs
Public policy integrating health into all sectors
Leadership enhancing collaborative policy dialogue
Increased stakeholder participation
What are the six main causes in a Fishbone Diagram (6 Ms)?
Man (People)
Machine
Materials
Methods
Mother Nature (Environment)
Measurement
What are the three levels of Root Cause Analysis?
Process Cause
System Cause
Detection Cause
What are the five principles of Primary Health Care?
Equity, universal access, community participation, and intersectoral approach
Broader population health issues reflecting public health functions
Effective provision of services to the poor and excluded groups
Integration of prevention, acute care, and chronic care across the system
Continuous evaluation and performance improvement
What are the five management functions in health care?
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Controlling
Directing
