PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; ALMA ATA Flashcards
ALMA ATA DECLARATION
SEPTEMBER ___________
SEP 12, 1979
Primary Health Care is _____________based on practical,
scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology
made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community
through their_____________ and at a cost that the community and
country can afford to maintain at every stage of development in the spirit
of self-reliance and self-determination.
essential health care
full participation
PHC includes: ___________-
ELEMENTS
An acceptable level of health for all people of the world by __________can be attained through a fuller and better use of world’s
resources
2000
According to WHO, the most realistic method of attaining community participation is
to employ “____________
community health workers
LEVELS OF PRIMARY HEALTH WORKERS
First contact of the community and initial
links of health care
Provide simple curative and preventive
health care measures promoting healthy
environment
village
grassroot
barangay health workers
LEVELS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE WORKERS
Represent the first source of
professional health care
* Attends to health problems beyond
the competence of the village
workers
* Provide support to front-line health
workers in terms of supervision,
training, supplies and services
* Medical practitioners, nurses and midwives
Intermediate level health workers
LEVELS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE WORKERS
Provide back up services for
cases that require hospitalization
* Establish close contacts with
intermediate level health workers
or village health workers
* Physicians with specialty, nurses,
dentists, pharmacists and other
health professionals
1st line hospital personnel
Primary Health Care
* Describes an “approach to health policy and services” provision and which
has a defining characteristics- “the relationship between patient care and
public health functions”
* Includes all services that play a part in health such as income, housing,
education, and environment
according to ____________
Health Canada
Primary Care
* Refers to the element within primary health care that focuses on health care
services, including health promotion, illness and injury prevention, and the
diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury
* Family doctor type-services delivered to ____________
Health Canada
delivered to individuals
LEVELS OF CARE
The first level of contact between the
individual and the health system
* Essential Health Care (PHC) or
“health at your door step” is provided
* A majority of prevailing health
problems can be satisfactorily
managed
* The closest to the people
* Provided at village level and through
primary health centers
* The measures of health promotion are
taken at maximum effort
* People are made self-relian
PRIMARY LEVEL CARE
LEVEL OF CARE
More complex problems are
dealt with
* Comprises of curative
services
* Provided by the district
hospitals
* The first referral level
Secondary Lvl of Care
LEVEL OF CARE
- More specialized specific
facilities and attention of
highly specialized health
workers - Provided by regional/ central
level institutions - Provide training programs
Tertiary lvl of care
LEVEL OF CARE
- Considered as an extension of
tertiary care - Even more specialized and highly
unusual - Experimental medicine and
procedures as well as highly
uncommon and specialized
surgeries
Quaternary Care
DOH TYPES OF HOSPITAL
emergency hospital
general medicine, pediatrics, minor surgery, non surgical gynecology
primary clinical laboratory
nursing care (minimal)
LEVEL 1 HOSPITAL
