LESSON 4: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE and UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

Question 1

_ health leaders from around 200
countries attended the international conference for PHC
held at the Alma Ata, USSR initiated by WHO and United
Nation Children Fund.

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September 6-12, 1978

Question 2

 Health is a basis fundamental right.
 There exist global burden of health in equalities among
populations
Economic and social development is of basic importance
for the full attainment of health for all.
 Governments have a responsibility for the health of
their people.

Answer 2

The Alma Ata Conference made the following
Declarations:

Question 3

In the Philippines, PHC was implemented through
Letter of Instruction (LOI) 949 (1979) by than
President F. Marcos that has an underlying theme

Answer 3

“Health in the Hands of the People by 2020.”

Question 4

Forty years from the inception of PHC in 1978,
world health leaders converged once again last
October 2018 at Astana, Kasakhstan to affirm
the declaration of Alma-ata that

Answer 4

health is a
fundamental right of all people and that all
should be affordable equitable health care
access.

Question 5

Essential health care based on practical,
scientifically sound and socially acceptable
methods and technology made universally
accessible to individuals and families in the
community through their full participation and
at a cost that the community and country can
afford to maintain at every stage of their
development in the spirit of self-reliance and
self-determination.” PHC is often referred to as
the foundation of UHC or a path to UHC.

Answer 5

PHC

Question 6

Health for all means that health is accessible,
acceptable & affordable to everyone& based in
the community workplace. This goal is
achievable by high level wellness.

Answer 6

HEALTH FOR ALL (HFA) by the year 2000

Question 7

refer to communication,
cooperation, and collaboration within the health
Two way referral system ensures competent care,
maximum use of availability of resources and continuity
of care

Answer 7

Intra-sectoral Linkages –

Question 8

= encompass the
communication, cooperation, and collaboration
between the health sector and sectors of society like
education, public works agriculture, and local
government officials.

Answer 8

Inter-sectoral linkages

Question 9

1) Doctor to the Barrios (DTTB) Program
2) Registered Nurses Health Enhancement and Local
Service (RN HEALS)

Answer 9

 Programs of DOH to ensure equitable distribution of
manpower to the rural areas

Question 10

mplies the use of drugs,
methods, procedures, techniques, equipment or
materials that are scientifically sound, but also provides
a socially and environmentally acceptable service or
product at the least economic cost

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Appropriate technology

Question 11

Traditional and Alternative Medicines
Act of 1997 were signed into law through the efforts of
then Secretary of Health Juan Flavier.

Answer 11

 RA 8423

Question 12

Sum of activities in which health agencies
engage to influence the thinking, motivation,
judgement and action of people.
- Consist of techniques that stimulate, arouse and
guide people to live healthfully.
- Process whereby knowledge, attitude to
improve practice of the people are changed to
improve individual, family and community

Answer 12

. Education for health

Question 13

• The nature of this public health program is to
  prevent the transmission of endemic diseases
  through vector control and detection and early
  treatment to reduce the case and prevent
  deaths.

Answer 13

Locally endemic disease control

Question 14

The immunization against poliomyelitis,
measles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and
other deadly but preventable diseases are given
for free by the government

Answer 14

EPI

Question 15

Protection of the mother and child against
illness and other risks that would ensure a good
health for the community.

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Maternal and child health including
responsible parenthood

Question 16

The program focuses on the information
campaign on the proper utilization and
acquisition of drugs.

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Essential drugs

Question 17

promote, require and ensure the production
of an adequate supply, distribution, use & acceptance
of drugs and medicines identified by their generic
names

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Generics Act of 1988

Question 18

means that all
individuals and communities receive the health services
they need without suffering financial hardship (

Answer 18

UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE (UHC)

Question 19

It is the provision to every Filipino of the highest
possible quality of health care that is:
Accessible  Efficient Equitably distributed 
Adequately funded  Fairly Financed  Appropriately
used by an empowered public

Answer 19

Universal Health Care (UHC) – Kalusugan
Pangkalahatan

Question 20

This law automatically covers all Filipinos under the
National Health Insurance Program of the Phil. or
PhilHealth.

Answer 20

RA 11223 last Feb. 2019.

Question 21

A act instituting UHC for all Filipinos, Prescribing
reforms in the healthcare system, and appropriating
funds.
UHC Act in the Philippines: a new

Answer 21

Universal Healthcare Act

Question 22

President Rodrigo Duterte signed the UHC bill into law
on

Answer 22

February 20, 2019

Question 23

October 10,2019 Health secretary
signed the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of
UHC.

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Francisco T. Duque

Question 24

Direct contributors =

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employed

Question 25

Indirect contributors

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unemployed senior citizens,
person with disabilities (PWD

Question 26

All people and communities can use the promotive ,
preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health
services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective,
while also ensuring that use of these services does not
expose the user to financial hardship.

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UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE AND HEALTH
FINANCING
UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE (UHC)