MODULE 1 Primary health care

Question 1

Roles of DOH in Health Sector

Answer 1

 leadership in health
 enabler and capacity builder
 administrator of specific services namely, national and sub-national health facilities and hospital

Question 2

A Global Leader for attaining better health outcomes, competitive and responsive health care systems, and equitable health care financing

Answer 2

VISION STATEMENT (DOH)

Question 3

A Global Leader for attaining better health outcomes, competitive and responsive health care systems, and equitable health care financing

Answer 3

MISSION STATEMENT (DOH)

Question 4

Three Strategic Thrust

Answer 4

 Financial Risk Protection
 Attainment of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
 Improving access to quality hospitals and health care facilities

Question 5

Six (6) strategic instruments

Answer 5

1. Health Financing-
2. Service Delivery
3. Policy, Standards and Regulation
4. Governance for Health
5. Human Resources for Health
6. Health Information

Question 6

instrument to transform the health service delivery structure to address variations in Health service utilization and health outcomes across socio- economic variables

Answer 6

Service Delivery

Question 7

instrument to increase resources for health that will be effectively allocated and utilized to improve the financial protection of the poor and vulnerable sectors

Answer 7

Health Financing

Question 8

instrument to ensure equitable access to health services, essential medicines and technologies of assured quality, availability and safety

Answer 8

Policy, Standards and Regulation

Question 9

instrument to establish the mechanisms for efficiency, transparency and accountability and prevent opportunities for fraud

Answer 9

Governance for Health-

Question 10

instrument to ensure that all Filipinos have access to professional health care providers capable of meeting their health needs at the appropriate level of care.

Answer 10

Human Resources for Health

Question 11

An essential health care made universally acceptable to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country and afford at every stage of development

Answer 11

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (PHC)

Question 12

Goal Of PHC

Answer 12

Health for all by year 2000

Question 13

SEVEN FEATURES OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (PHC)

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1. An element of health system
2. Focus on priorities-
3. Scientific basis
4. Culture sensitivity-
5. Equity
6. Community participation
7. Sustainability and self- reliance

Question 14

Rationale for Adopting Primary Health Care

Answer 14

 Magnitude of Health Problems
 Inadequate and unequal distribution of health resources
 Increasing cost of medical care
 Isolation of health care activities from other development activities

Question 15

Five Key Elements of PHC

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1. universal coverage reforms
2. service delivery reforms
3. public policy reforms
4. leadership reforms
5. Increasing stakeholder participation

Question 16

Four Pillars of PHC

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 Active Community Participation
 Intra and Inter-sectoral linkages
 Use of appropriate technology
 Support mechanism made available

Question 17

Principles of PHC

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1. Accessibility (equal distribution)
2. Community participation
3. Health promotion
4. Appropriate technology
5. Inter-sectoral collaboration

Question 18

a process by which individuals and family assume responsibility for their own health and those of the community and develop the capacity to contribute to their development as well as the community.

Answer 18

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

Question 19

Barriers of Community Involvement

Answer 19

 Lack of motivation
 Attitude
 Resistance to change
 Dependence on the part of the community people
 Lack of managerial skills

Question 20

coordination of health activities with other sectors (education, agriculture, finance etc.)

Answer 20

INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION

Question 21

INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION  ADVANTAGES

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• Overall human development
• It ensures economic development
• It ensures affordability

Question 22

Criteria Appropriate technology

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◦ Effective and safe
◦ Complexity
◦ Cost
◦ Acceptable
◦ Scope of technology
◦ Feasibility

Question 23

Essential Elements of PHC

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1. Health Education-
2. Treatment of locally endemic disease
3. Expanded Program on Immunization
4. Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning
5. Environmental Sanitation and Promotion of Safe Water Supply
6. Nutrition and Promotion of Adequate Food Supply
7. Treatment of Communicable Diseases and Common Illness
8. Supply of Essential Drugs

Question 24

Major Strategies of Primary Health Care (Philippine Setting)

Answer 24

1. Elevating Health to a Comprehensive and Sustained National Effort
2. Promoting and Supporting Community Managed Health Care
3. Increasing Efficiencies in the Health Sector
4. Advancing Essential National Health Research

Question 25

First contacts of the community and the initial link in the health chain

Answer 25

Village or grassroot health workers

Question 26

General medical practitioners, public health nurses, and midwives

Answer 26

Intermediate level health workers

Question 27

Physicians with some specialty area, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, etc, working in primary hospitals

Answer 27

First Line Hospital Personnel