ORGANIZATIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO COMMUNITY HEALTH (prt. 2)

Question 1

Levels of Healthcare and Referral System in the Philippines

Answer 1

Base (Lower) Part

Top (Higher Part)

Barangay Health Stations & Rural Health Unit

Question 2

-> Where all of the basic needs are located
Ex: Primary level of care

Answer 2

Base (Lower) Part

Question 3

• Highest level of care given to a particular patient

Answer 3

Top (Higher Part)

Question 4

• Bridge between the community to the higher levels of health care, depending on the needs of the person

Answer 4

Barangay Health Stations & Rural Health Unit

Question 5

refer it to the higher levels such as the emergency or district hospitals or the provincial/city health services or provincial/city hospitals

Answer 5

RHU - rural health unit

Question 6

Three Factors for Referral

Answer 6

Availability of Services

Qualified Practitioner

Availability of Equipment

Question 7

-> In the basic level, there is a limited range of services offered
- Higher levels can offer most of the tests needed

Answer 7

Availability of Services

Question 8

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On the basic level, the practitioners are also professionals but it is only limited to their capabilities
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In the higher levels, there are dot of health care professionals that could accommodate the patient’s needs; the higher the level, the more qualified practitioners are to treat you

Answer 8

Qualified Practitioner

Question 9

->
Basic level - limited kinds of equipment usually for basic assessment
- Higher level - wider range of availability;
sophisticated equipment

Answer 9

Availability of Equipment

Question 10

Levels of Care

Answer 10

1. Primary Level of Care
2. Secondary Level of Care
3. (Tertiary Level of Care

Question 11

Usually, the first contact between the community members and other levels of health facility

The facilities are only small and the number of beds is only limited.

The equipment used to assess a person is also limited because they are only treating basic conditions

Answer 11

Primary Level of Care

• Includes the primary health facility

Question 12

Health care provided by center physicians, public health nurses, rural health midwives, barangay health workers, traditional healers and others at the barangay health stations and rural health units

If you have flu, cough, or fever, you can go to this level of care to accommodate your concerns because they have the capability to treat that particular condition.

Answer 12

Primary Level of Care

Question 13

• Health facilities either private owned or government operated (infirmaries, municipal and district hospitals, out-patient departments of provincial hospitals)

Answer 13

Secondary Level of Care

Question 14

They are capable of performing inor surgeries

They provide simple laboratory examination and simple imaging examinations such as chest x-ray

Given by physician with basic health training

Answer 14

Secondary Level of Care

Question 15

They are the referral center for the primary health facilities

If there is a dengue patient that needs to be admitted, he can go to a district hospital

This level is only intended if the primary health facilities cannot accommodate a particular condition

Answer 15

Secondary Level of Care

Question 16

• Rendered by specialists in health facilities including the medical centers (regional & provincial hospitals, and specialized hospitals)
• Referral center for the secondary care facility Has many tests offered and can accommodate needs

-> Highest or the utmost level of care in the referral system

Answer 16

Tertiary Level of Care

Question 17

They handle complicated cases and intensive care cases (Ex: cancer)
• Philippine Heart Center
o National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI)
o PLC
• St. Luke’s Medical Center o Makati Medical Center o Medical City

Answer 17

Tertiary Level of Care

Question 18

The higher the level, more services are offered, more sophisticated new equipment compared to those two levels of care
o MRI and CT scan
• Imaging
Nuclear Medicine

Answer 18

Tertiary Level of Care

Question 19

The HiGHER the level:

Answer 19

The more qualified the health personnel

The more sophisticated the health equipment

The more services available to the needs of a patient

Question 20

Important role in diagnostic services

The nature of MedTech’s work is to assess body fluids for bacteria, fungi and viruses that may cause a disease for the particular person

Answer 20

BSMLS

Question 21

They are the ones assessing the doctor for diagnosis

They are also public health laboratory professionals because they can be a bacteriologist, microbiologist and biochemist to test biological and environmental samples in order to diagnose, prevent, treat, and control infectious disease in the community

Answer 21

BSMLS

Question 22

• They are also trained to do water analysis to check if the water is potable to drink or if there are coliform bacteria in water source

• They also assess biological samples to help the doctors find out what is the organism that caused the problem in the patient’s body

Answer 22

BSMLS

Question 23

Important role in public health education especially first aid training, BLS trainings, etc.

Answer 23

BSN

Question 24

There is Community and Public Health subject

They are the ones that provide training to the community especially in how to do first aid, BLS trainings, how to have a proper nutrition for their children and also for themselves to prevent lifestvle diseases and other things.

Answer 24

BSN