Philippine Health Care Delivery System

Question 1

The primary health care is essential to health care based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods.

Answer 1

DECLARATION OF ALMA-ATA

Question 2

A healthcare made universally accessible and acceptable to individuals through full participation and at a cost the community and country can afford.

Answer 2

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

Question 3

It refers to an organized plan of health services.

Answer 3

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (Miller Keane, 1987)

Question 4

It is the rendering of health care services to the people.

Answer 4

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY (Williams-Tungpalan, 1981)

Question 5

The network of health facilities and personnel which carries out the task of rendering health care to the people.

Answer 5

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

Question 6

A set of organizations interacting to provide an array of health services in the Philippines.

Answer 6

PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Question 7

Five key elements to achieve a goal of PHC

Answer 7

1. Universal coverage to reduce exclusion and social disparities in health.
2. Service delivery organized around people’s needs and expectations.
3. Public policy that integrates health into all sectors.
4. Leadership that enhances collaborative models of policy dialogue.
5. Increased stakeholder participation.

Question 8

What are the management of Primary Health Care? In order.

Answer 8

PLANNING, ORGANIZING, STAFFING, CONTROLLING, DIRECTING

Question 9

Managers are usually required to set a direction and determine what needs to be accomplished. Setting priorities and determining performance targets.

Answer 9

PLANNING

Question 10

Refers to the management function on designing the organization or the specific division, unit, or service for which the manager is responsible.

Answer 10

ORGANIZING

Question 11

Refers to acquiring and retaining human resources. Also refers to developing and maintaining the workforce through various strategies and tactics.

Answer 11

STAFFING

Question 12

Refers to monitoring the staff activities and performance and taking the appropriate actions for corrective action to increase performance.

Answer 12

CONTROLLING

Question 13

To initiate action in the organization through effective leadership and motivation of, and communication with subordinates.

Answer 13

DIRECTING

Question 14

A Manager’s formal and legitimate right to make decisions, issue orders, and allocate resources to achieve organizationally desired outcomes.

Answer 14

AUTHORITY

Question 15

Employee’s duty to perform assigned tasks or activities.

Answer 15

RESPONSIBILITY

Question 16

Those with authority and responsibility must report and justify task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command.

Answer 16

ACCOUNTABILITY

Question 17

What are the types of Authority and Responsibility?

Answer 17

LINE AUTHORITY, FUNCTIONAL AUTHORITY, STAFF AUTHORITY

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

LINE AUTHORITY

Question 19

The managers have formal power over a specific subset of activities.

Answer 19

FUNCTIONAL AUTHORITY

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

STAFF AUTHORITY

Question 21

The location of decision-making authority near top organizational levels.

Answer 21

CENTRALIZATION

Question 22

The location of decision-making authority near lower organizational levels.

Answer 22

DECENTRALIZATION

Question 23

A written documentation used to direct and control employees.

Answer 23

FORMALIZATION

Question 24

Refers to the assignment of individuals to responsible positions identified in a management plan.

Answer 24

STAFFING

Question 25

What are the levels of Health Care Facilities?

Answer 25

PRIMARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES, SECONDARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES, TERTIARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

Question 26

A rural health units, their sub-centers, chest clinics, malaria eradication units, and schistosomiasis control units.

Answer 26

PRIMARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

Question 27

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.

Answer 27

SECONDARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

Question 28

The medical centers and large hospitals that offer highly technological and sophisticated services.

Answer 28

TERTIARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

Question 29

What are the 3 levels of PHC Workers?

Answer 29

VILLAGE OR GRASSROOT HEALTH WORKERS, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL HEALTH WORKERS, FIRST LINE HOSPITAL PERSONNEL

Question 30

The first contact of the community and initial links of health care.

Answer 30

VILLAGE IR GRASSROOT HEALTH WORKERS

Question 31

Represents the first source of professional health care. Includes medical practitioners, nurses, and midwives.

Answer 31

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL HEALTH WORKERS

Question 32

Provides backup health services for cases that require hospitalization. Includes physicians with specialty, nurses, dentist, pharmacists, and other health professionals.

Answer 32

FIRST LINE HOSPITAL PERSONNEL