Philippine Health Care Delivery System Flashcards
The primary health care is essential to health care based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods.
DECLARATION OF ALMA-ATA
A healthcare made universally accessible and acceptable to individuals through full participation and at a cost the community and country can afford.
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
It refers to an organized plan of health services.
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (Miller Keane, 1987)
It is the rendering of health care services to the people.
HEALTH CARE DELIVERY (Williams-Tungpalan, 1981)
The network of health facilities and personnel which carries out the task of rendering health care to the people.
HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
A set of organizations interacting to provide an array of health services in the Philippines.
PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Five key elements to achieve a goal of PHC
- Universal coverage to reduce exclusion and social disparities in health.
- Service delivery organized around people’s needs and expectations.
- Public policy that integrates health into all sectors.
- Leadership that enhances collaborative models of policy dialogue.
- Increased stakeholder participation.
What are the management of Primary Health Care? In order.
PLANNING, ORGANIZING, STAFFING, CONTROLLING, DIRECTING
Managers are usually required to set a direction and determine what needs to be accomplished. Setting priorities and determining performance targets.
PLANNING
Refers to the management function on designing the organization or the specific division, unit, or service for which the manager is responsible.
ORGANIZING
Refers to acquiring and retaining human resources. Also refers to developing and maintaining the workforce through various strategies and tactics.
STAFFING
Refers to monitoring the staff activities and performance and taking the appropriate actions for corrective action to increase performance.
CONTROLLING
To initiate action in the organization through effective leadership and motivation of, and communication with subordinates.
DIRECTING
A Manager’s formal and legitimate right to make decisions, issue orders, and allocate resources to achieve organizationally desired outcomes.
AUTHORITY
Employee’s duty to perform assigned tasks or activities.
RESPONSIBILITY
Those with authority and responsibility must report and justify task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command.
ACCOUNTABILITY
What are the types of Authority and Responsibility?
LINE AUTHORITY, FUNCTIONAL AUTHORITY, STAFF AUTHORITY
Managers have the formal power to direct and control immediate subordinates. The superior issues orders and is responsible for the result; the subordinate obeys and is responsible only for executing the order according to instructions.
LINE AUTHORITY
The managers have formal power over a specific subset of activities.
FUNCTIONAL AUTHORITY
Granted to staff specialists in their areas of expertise. Not a real authority in the sense that a staff manager does not order or instruct but simply advises, recommends, and counsels in the staff specialists’ area of expertise.
STAFF AUTHORITY
The location of decision-making authority near top organizational levels.
CENTRALIZATION
The location of decision-making authority near lower organizational levels.
DECENTRALIZATION
A written documentation used to direct and control employees.
FORMALIZATION
Refers to the assignment of individuals to responsible positions identified in a management plan.
STAFFING
What are the levels of Health Care Facilities?
PRIMARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES, SECONDARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES, TERTIARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
A rural health units, their sub-centers, chest clinics, malaria eradication units, and schistosomiasis control units.
PRIMARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
The smaller, non-departmentalized hospitals, including emergency and regional hospitals in which services to patients with symptomatic stages of the disease requires a moderately specialized knowledge and technical resources for adequate treatment is offered.
SECONDARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
The medical centers and large hospitals that offer highly technological and sophisticated services.
TERTIARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
What are the 3 levels of PHC Workers?
VILLAGE OR GRASSROOT HEALTH WORKERS, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL HEALTH WORKERS, FIRST LINE HOSPITAL PERSONNEL
The first contact of the community and initial links of health care.
VILLAGE IR GRASSROOT HEALTH WORKERS
Represents the first source of professional health care. Includes medical practitioners, nurses, and midwives.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL HEALTH WORKERS
Provides backup health services for cases that require hospitalization. Includes physicians with specialty, nurses, dentist, pharmacists, and other health professionals.
FIRST LINE HOSPITAL PERSONNEL
