Primary Health Care and Health Promotion

Question 1

primary health care

Answer 1

• an integrated approach that involves building a related spectrum on programs and services that move beyond the traditional health care system
• made universally acceptable
• health promotion and illness prevention
• accessible to all
• includes client in all aspects of care

Question 2

primary health care is…

Answer 2

• promotive
• preventative
• curative
• rehabilitative
• supportive

Question 3

health care delivery: primary health care

Answer 3

• supports essential health care services with strong focus on health promotion and disease prevention
• determinants of health are recognized

Question 4

primary care

Answer 4

• direct provision of first-contact services

- by providers such as family doctor, nurses, pharmacists, telephone advice lines

Question 5

goals with primary health care

Answer 5

• address equity issues
• provide relevant/accessible programs and services
• situate health intersectorally
• build collaborative models for programs
• embed patient, stakeholder, and partner participation

Question 6

principles of primary health care

Answer 6

• access
• teams
• information
• healthy living

Question 7

principles: access

Answer 7

• reducing exclusion and social disparities in health

- ensuring individuals have access to appropriate services when and where they are needed

Question 8

principles: teams

Answer 8

• integrating health into all sectors will improve access to and coordination of care

Question 9

principles: information

Answer 9

• promotes ease of access to health information through the use of innovative tools and technology

Question 10

principles: healthy living

Answer 10

• embraces a focus toward health promotion and prevention, chronic illness management, and self care while recognizing the influence of other determinants that influence health

Question 11

health promotion

Answer 11

• the process of enabling individuals to increase control over and improve their health
• increasing levels of wellness and self-actualization

Question 12

how do we achieve health promotion

Answer 12

• build healthy public policy
• create supportive environments
• strengthen community action
• develop personal skills
• reorient health services

Question 13

build healthy public policy

Answer 13

• consider health in all policies

Question 14

create supportive environments

Answer 14

• how can we look at our built natural society and how it can promote/improve health

Question 15

strengthen community action

Answer 15

• empowering communities to be able to be resilient and healthy

Question 16

develop personal skills

Answer 16

• how can we build skills/educate people and help them to do thing in their lives

Question 17

reorient health services

Answer 17

• moving away from securitive model of just going to the hospital and taking preventative measures

Question 18

disease prevention

Answer 18

• action to avoid illness and disease and its effects

Question 19

3 levels of disease prevention

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1) primary prevention
2) secondary prevention
3) tertiary prevention

Question 20

primary prevention

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• stopping it before it happens

- immunizations, education, sanitation, healthy foods, safety precautions

Question 21

secondary prevention

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• early detection of disease so that prompt treatment can be initiated to halt disease and limit disability
• preventative screening (BP, STI, blood glucose)

Question 22

tertiary prevention

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• initiated in the convalescence stage of disease
• directed toward minimizing residual disability and helping individuals live productively with limitations
• maintenance
• rehabilitation/health restoration

Question 23

population health approach

Answer 23

• aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups

Question 24

population health promotion

Answer 24

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Question 25

population health promotion: why

Answer 25

• why take action to improve health
• evidence based decision making
• research
• evaluation
• experiential learning
• values and assumptions

Question 26

population health promotion: who

Answer 26

• with who can we act
• who do we need to involve to promote effective action toward developing health promotion activities
• society
• sector/system
• community
• family
• individual

Question 27

population health promotion: what

Answer 27

• on what can we take action
• determinants of health: areas where action could improve health
• DOH

Question 28

population health promotion: how

Answer 28

• how can we take action to improve health
• strengthen community action
• build health public policy
• create supportive environments
• develop personal skills
• reorient health services