Module 4 Flashcards
one who provides basic community health care services for promotion of health, prevention of illness, simple treatment and rehabilitation. All people engaged in actions whose primary intent is to enhance health
Health Workers
accepts need for joint planning and decision relative to health care in particular situation and importantly not resistant to change
Open
one who presides over an assembly, meeting or discussion in a subtle manner; importantly not bias and give constructive criticism
Tactful
capable of bringing consonance or harmony in the community’s health care activity
Coordinator
capable of fair decision making in the problem that might arise in the community
Objective
always available for the participant to voice out their sentiments and needs
Good-Listener
are knowledgeable about everything relevant to his practice; has the necessary skills expected for him/her
Efficient
able to cope with different situations
Flexible
decide on what has been analyze
Critical thinker
helps plan a comprehensive health program, give continuing guidance and supervisory assistance with the people around the community.
Facilitator
helps make multiple services which the family in the community receives in the course of health care
Team member
able to provide the community with stimulation for a
wider or more complex study problem.
Researcher
carries out health services contributing to the promotion of health, prevention of illness, early treatment of illness and rehabilitation and appraises health needs and hazards that might arise or currently present in the community.
Advocate
instrument of change by assisting others to take action and they must help the community to create a vision and help make that vision operational, as well as create environmental supports needed to sustain improvements that
can help improve the way of living in the community.
Catalyst of change
the one who improves the health of the people by employing various methods or scientific procedures to stimulate, arouse and guide people to healthful ways of living in the community
Health Educator
Health worker takes into consideration these aspects of
health education:
Information, Education, Communication
able to develop or shift into knowledge, skill and attitude
Education
provision or providing of knowledge
Information
exchange of information
Communication
social group determined by geographic boundaries and/or common values and interest.
Its members know and interact with each other.
Community
A community can be defined as
“a people, location, and social system”
usually small and the occupation of the people is usually farming, fishing and food gathering. It is peopled by simple folk characterized by primary group relations, well-knit and having a high degree of group feeling.
Rural
→ first social institution established by man
→ It is a primary group that satisfies his needs, material, emotional and spiritual
→ Its functions are multifarious, ranging from the care and education of children to economic production and leadership roles. All these functions have become institutionalized.
Family
is learned, shared, transmitted to succeeding generations through the use of tools and language.
Culture
→ definite, spatial
→ more absolute and easier to see and to define compare to the conceptual type
Concrete
The 4 types of concrete boundaries
Geographical, Political, Situational, Combination of the three
mountains, valleys and deserts are examples of what boundary
Geographical
cities, towns, barrios, countries, states, and nations are examples of what boundary
Political
home, school and work are examples of what boundary
Situational
elusive, non-spatial
Conceptual
these are composed of physical, socio-cultural, educational and employment in lieu of the people in the community
Environment
included in here are self-responsibility, self- care competency of the people living in the community
Population behavior of lifestyle
this is compose genetic characteristics of
population
Human biology
it is compose of prevention, promotion, cure and rehabilitation of the disease or problem that might arise in the population or community
System of Health Care
it is a high density, socially heterogeneous population and a complex structure, non-agricultural occupations; something different from an area characterize by complex interpersonal
social relations
Urban
it is usually a small and the occupation of the people is usually farming, fishing and food gathering. It is peopled by simple folk characterized by primary group relations, well-knit and having a high degree of group feeling.
Rural
an area which is chiefly residential but where some farming is carried on
Rurban
it includes what type of housing facilities are there in the community
Housing
these includes laws, regulations, facilities, activities affecting education in the community, ratio of health educators to learners, distribution of educational facilities, who utilizes these, what informal educational facilities and activities exist in the community
Education
it includes fire protection facilities and fire prevention activities and how to distribute these service within the community
Fire and Safety
what is the political structure present in the community, how decision making process/pattern of leadership style is observed in the community
Politics and Government
it includes health facilities and activities in the community, distribution, utilization, ratio of providers to clientele served, what are the priorities and programs develop for health
Health
it includes systems, types of communication existing, forms of communication that exist in the community (formal or informal)
Communication
includes occupation, types of economic activities, income that people in the community have etc.
Economics
includes recreational activities/facilities that is present or available in the community:
type of consumer that will be serve by this recreational services and appropriateness to consumers
Recreation
What are the Eight Subsystems of the Community?
Housing, Education, Fire and Safety, Politics and Government, Health, Communication, Economics, Recreation
What are the Factors that Affect Community Health
Political, Socio-economic, Heredity, Environment, Behavior, Health Care Delivery System
→ describe the different indicators of a healthy community
Health Statistics
derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register
Vital Statistics
Examples of Vital Events:
Births, Deaths, Fetal deaths, Marriages
→ Recording of these events in the civil register
Vital or Civil Registration
→ It is a coming into being or act or process of being born.
→It is a complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life.
Birth
→ the resulting documents
Vital Records
→ list of information which would determine the health of a particular community like population, crude birth rate, crude death rate, infant, maternal, neonatal and tuberculosis death rates.
Health Indicators
→ relation indicating the number of times a certain events occurs when a certain numbers of exposures to the risk of occurrence is present in a given period of time
Rates
→ Is only a rough measure of fertility in a population since it makes use of mid-year
population (which includes the number of men and women incapable of child bearing) as its denominator
Crude Birth Rate
→ The cessation of all physical and chemical processes that invariably occurs in all living things and to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place (postnatal cessation of vital function without capability of resuscitation).
Death
→ is only a rough measure of the force of mortality or the probability of dying in a population because of death rates are largely influenced by age and sex composition of the population
Crude Death Rate
→ Total number of deaths under 1 yr. of age
Infant Mortality Rate
→ Total number of fetal deaths. It measures pregnancy wastage, death product of conception occurs prior to its complete expulsion, irrespective of duration of pregnancy.
Fetal Death Rate
→ Total number of deaths under 28 days of age. Measures the risk of dying on 1st month of life. It may serve as index of the effects of prenatal care and obstetrical management of the newborn.
Neonatal Death Rate
What is different about the formula for CSDR compared to others?
CSDR is multiplied by 100,000
→ The institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family
Marriages
→ The transfer of one individual from one locality to another
Migration
Who are responsible in the registration of Vital Events
LGUs, LCRs, Civil Registrar General of the PSA
→ are useful for local and national authorities specifically for planning of human, social and economic development.
Vital Statistics
→ share with the community they serve the responsibility of planning and taking the necessary actions to solve the problems and are expected to be able to maintain accurate and updated statistical records and reports.
Health personnel
_______ should understand the
significance of vital statistics, how they are obtained and how to interpret them
Health personnel
What are examples of Basic Sources of Vital Statistics?
Marriage Certificate
Certificate of Live Birth
Certificate of Death
Certificate of Fetal Death
Who are responsible for registration of foreign vital events, reports of births, marriages, and deaths
PFSE, DFA, Civil Registrar of the PSA
What does LCR stand for?
Local Civil Registrar
What does PSA stand for?
Philipine Statistics Authority
What does DFA stand for?
Department of Foreign Affairs
