Lesson 3 Flashcards
Based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods.
Primary Health Care
Universally accessible to individuals and families with their full participation at a cost that the community and country can afford in a spirit of self-reliance and self-determination
Primary Health Care
Who defined primary health care?
Declaration of Alma-Ata
It is an essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and acceptable to them, through full participation and at a cost the community and country can afford.
Primary Health Care (PHC)
Essential elements of objectives of PHC
Health care system, health care delivery, health care delivery system
Refers to an organized plan of health services
Health Care System (Miller-Keane, 1987)
Rendering of health care services to the people
Health Care Delivery (Willams-Tungpalan, 1981)
Refers to the 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)
Complex set of organizations interacting to provide an array of health services
Philippine Health Care System (Dizon, 1977)
In what year health service delivery was devolved to the Local Government Units (LGUs)
1991
What is the primary goal of primary health care?
Better health for all
Functions in the process of management
Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Controlling, Directing
Managers are required to set a direction and determine the needs to be accomplished
Planning
This means setting priorities and determining performance targets
Planning
Refers to the management function on designing the organization or the specific division, unit, or service for which the manager is responsible
Organizing
It means designating reporting relationships and intentional patterns of interaction
Organizing
Refers to acquiring and retaining human resources, and developing and maintaining the workforce through various strategies and tactics
Staffing
Refers to monitoring staff activities and performance and taking the appropriate actions for corrective actions to increase performance.
Controlling
Its focus is to initiate action in the organization through the effective leadership, motivation, and communication of managers
Directing
Management principles in relation to organizing are:
Authority, responsibility, accountability
Manager’s formal and legitimate right to make decisions, issue orders, and allocate resources to achieve organizationally desired outcomes
Authority
It means an employee’s duty to perform assigned task or activities
Responsibility
It means that those with authority and responsibility must report and justify task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command
Authority
types of authority are:
line authority, functional authority, staff authority
managers have formal power to direct and control immediate subordinates
Line authority
the superior issues orders and is responsible for the result
Line authority
The subordinate obeys and is responsible only for executing the order according to instructions
Line authority
Managers have formal power over a specific subject subset of activities
Functional authority
Granted to staff specialists in their areas of expertise
staff authority
staff manager does not order or instruct but simply advises, recommends, and counsels in the staff specialists’ area of expertise
staff authority
decision making falls on top of organizational levels
Centralization
decision making authority falls on lower organizational levels
decentralization
written documentation used to direct and control employees
formalization
assignment of individuals to responsible positions identified in a management plan
Staffing
KRA
Key Result Areas
KRA
Key Result Areas
It refer to general areas of outputs or outcomes for which the department’s role is responsible
Key result Areas (KRA)
Its primary function is the promotion, protection, preservation or restoration of the health of people through the provision and delivery of health services and through the regulation and encouragement of providers of health goods and services
Department of Health
Its primary function is the promotion, protection, preservation or restoration of the health of people through the provision and delivery of health services and through the regulation and encouragement of providers of health goods and services
Department of Health
The primary function of Department of Health is the promotion, protection, preservation or restoration of the health of people through the provision and delivery of health services and through the regulation and encouragement of providers of health goods and services
Executive Order No. 119, Sec 3
Levels of Health care facilities
primary level, secondary level, tertiary level
3 levels of primary health care workers
Village or Grassroots’ health workers, intermediate level health workers, First line hospital personnel
