LESSON 3: PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE AND THE PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM Flashcards
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Health Care
The provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
Health Care
Services that promote health, prevent health problems, diagnose, and treat health problems to cure them, and improve quality of life.
Health Care
This refers to an organized plan of health services (Miller-Keane,1987)
Health Care System
Who defined Health Care System as an organized plan of health services?
Miller-Keane,1987
It is the rendering of health care services to the people
(Williams-Tungpalan, 1981)
Health Care Delivery
Who defined Health Care Delivery as the rendering of health care services to the people?
Williams-Tungpalan, 1981
This refers to the network of health facilities and personnel which carries out the task of rendering heath care to the people (Williams-Tungpalan, 1981).
Health Care Delivery System
Who defined Health Care Delivery System as a network of health facilities and personnel which carry out the task of rendering health care to the people?
Williams - Tungpalan, 1981
This is made universally accessible to individuals and acceptable to them, through full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford in a spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.
Essential Health Care
This is a basic health care and is a whole of society approach to health well-being, focused on needs and priorities of individuals, families, and communities.
Primary Health Care
This is is an approach to health beyond the traditional health care system that focuses on health equity-producing social policy
Primary Health Care
This has the basic essential elements and objectives that help to attain better health services for all.
Primary Health Care
It is a complex set of organizations interacting to provide an
array of health services (Dizon, 1977).
Primary Health Care System
Who defined Primary Health Care System as a complex set of organizations interacting to provide an array of health services?
Dizon, 1997
When was health service delivery devolved to the Local Government Units (LGUs)
1991
A key element of PHC that aims to reduce exclusion and social disparities in health
Universal Coverage Reforms
A key element of PHC that aims to be organized around people’s needs and expectations
Service Delivery Reforms
A key element of PHC that integrates health into all sectors.
Public Policy
A key element of PHC that aims to pursue collaborative methods of policy dialogue
Leadership Reforms
In the essential elements of PHC, E stands for?
Education
In the essential elements of PHC, L stands for?
Locally endemic disease prevention and control
In the essential elements of PHC, E stands for?
Expanded program of immunization against major infectious
disease
In the essential elements of PHC, M stands for?
Maternal and child health care including family planning.
In the essential elements of PHC, E stands for?
Essential drugs arrangement
In the essential elements of PHC, N stands for?
Nutritional food supplements, an adequate supply of safe and
basic nutrition
In the essential elements of PHC, T stands for?
Treatment of communicable and non-communicable
diseases and promotion of mental health
In the essential elements of PHC, S stands for?
Safe water and sanitation
Function of a health care manager that means setting priorities and determining performance targets
Planning
This means designating reporting relationships and intentional patterns of interaction.
Organizing
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
Managers are not required to set a direction and
determine what needs to be accomplished
FALSE; Managers are usually required to set a direction and
determine what needs to be accomplished
This refers to the management function on designing the organization or the specific division, unit, or service for which the manager is responsible.
Organizing
This function refers to acquiring and retaining human
resources.
Staffing
This also refers to developing and maintaining the workforce
through various strategies and tactics.
Staffing
This function refers to monitoring staff activities and performance and taking the appropriate actions for corrective action to increase performance.
Controlling
Its focus in to initiate action in the organization through effective leadership and motivation of, and communication with, subordinates.
Directing
This is a manager’s formal and legitimate right to make decisions, issue orders, and allocate resources to achieve organizationally desired outcomes.
Authority
This type of authority have the formal power to direct and
control immediate subordinates.
Line Authority
They are the ones who issue orders and is responsible for the
result
Superior
They are the ones who obey and is responsible only for
executing the order according to instructions.
Subordinate
This type of authority is where managers have formal power
over a specific subset of activities.
Functional Authority
This type of authority is granted to staff specialists in their areas of expertise.
Staff Authority
What does a staff authority do?
They do not order or instruct but simply advise, recommend, and counsel in the staff specialists’ area of expertise.
This pertains to an employee’s duty to perform assigned task or activities.
Responsibility
This pertains to those with authority and responsibility must report and justify task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command.
Accountability
The assignment of individuals to responsible positions identified in a management plan.
Staffing
The location of decision-making authority near top organizational levels.
Centralization
The location of decision-making authority near lower
organization levels.
Decentralization
The written documentation used to direct and control
employees.
Formalization
These are the smaller, non-departmentalized hospitals
including emergency and regional hospitals in which
services to patients with symptomatic stages of disease,
which require moderately specialized knowledge and
technical resources for adequate treatment are offered.
Secondary Level Healthcare Facilities
Who operates Community hospitals and health centers?
The Philippine Medicare Care Commission and other health facilities operated by voluntary religious and civic groups
These include rural health units, their sub-centers, chest clinics, malaria eradication units, and schistosomiasis control units operated by the DOH.
Secondary Level Healthcare Facilities
These include rural health units, their sub-centers, chest clinics, malaria eradication units, and schistosomiasis control units operated by the DOH.
Primary Level Healthcare Facilities
These are the highly technological and sophisticated
services offered by medical centers and large hospitals
Tertiary Level Healthcare Facilities
These are the specialized national hospitals.
Tertiary Level Healthcare Facilities
The services rendered at this level are for clients afflicted with diseases which seriously threaten their health, and which require highly technical and specialized knowledge, facilities and personnel to treat effectively
Tertiary Level Healthcare Facilities
They are the ones who provide simple curative and preventive health care measures promoting healthy environment.
Village or Grassroot Health Workers
They participate in activities geared towards the improvement
of the socio-economic level of the community like food
production program.
Village or Grassroot Health Workers
What are examples of Village or Grassroot Health Workers?
Community health worker, volunteers, or traditional birth
attendants.
They represent the first source of professional health care.
Intermediate Level Health Workers
They attend to health problems beyond the competence of village workers.
Intermediate Level Health Workers
They provide support to front-line health workers in terms of supervision, training, supplies, and services.
Intermediate Level Health Workers
They are considered the first contracts of the community and initial links of healthcare.
Village or Grassroot Health Workers
What are the examples of Intermediate Level Health Workers?
Medical practitioners, nurses, and midwives
Provide backup health services for cases that require hospitalization.
First Line Hospital Personnel
They establish close contact with intermediate level health workers or village health workers
First Line Hospital Personnel
What are the examples of First Line Hospital Personnel?
Physicians with specialty, nurses, dentist, pharmacists,
other health professionals.
