Primary Health Care Flashcards
States that the most important global goal is for humans to reach the optimal level of their health.
Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978
“health is a fundamental
human right”
Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978
What refers to the organized plan of health services?
Health care system
What refers to the rendering of health care services to the people?
Health care delivery
What refers to the network
of health facilities and personnel which carry out the task of rendering health care to the people?
Health care delivery system
State the ultimate goal for PHC.
Better health for all.
Identify the function in the process of managing primary health care.
Setting priorities and determining performance targets.
Planning
Identify the function in the process of managing primary health care.
Designing the organization or the specific division, unit, or service for which the manager is responsible.
Organizing
Identify the function in the process of managing primary health care.
Acquiring and retaining human resources, and developing and maintaining the workforce through various strategies and tactics.
Staffing
Identify the function in the process of managing primary health care.
Monitoring staff activities and performance and taking the appropriate actions for corrective actions to increase performance.
Controlling
Identify the function in the process of managing primary health care.
Focuses on initiating action in the organization through the effective leadership, motivation, and communication of managers.
Directing
Identify the management principle according to organizing.
The duty of the employee to perform the assigned tasks and activities.
Responsibility
Identify the management principle according to organizing.
Reporting and justification of task outcomes to higher management by those people with authority.
Accountability
Identify the type of authority.
Issue orders to their subordinates and are also responsible for the results.
Line authority
Identify the type of authority.
For managers that have power only over a specific set of activities.
Functional authority
Identify the management principle according to organizing.
The concentration of planning and decision-making to the top of the organization.
Centralization
Identify the management principle according to organizing.
The delegation of planning and decision-making to the lower branches of the organization.
Decentralization
Identify the management principle according to organizing.
A written documentation provided for the direct control of the employees.
Formalization
Identify the level of health care facility.
Units operated by the DOH which include the rural health units, their respective sub-centers, chest clinics, malaria eradication units, and schistosomiasis control
units.
Primary level
Identify the level of health care facility.
These are emergency and regional hospitals where
adequate treatments are offered for patients with
symptomatic stages of diseases.
Secondary level
Identify the level of health care facility.
Specialized national hospitals which offer highly
technological and sophisticated services.
Tertiary level
Identify the level of a health care worker.
They are the initial links of the community to health care.
Grassroot or Village Health Workers
Identify the level of a health care worker.
They are the first source of professional health care.
Intermediate health workers
Identify the level of a health care worker.
They are the physicians with specialty, nurses, dentists,
pharmacists, and other health professionals.
First-line hospital personnel
