Primary Health Care and Health Promotion Flashcards
primary health care
- 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
primary health care is…
- promotive
- preventative
- curative
- rehabilitative
- supportive
health care delivery: primary health care
- supports essential health care services with strong focus on health promotion and disease prevention
- determinants of health are recognized
primary care
- direct provision of first-contact services
- by providers such as family doctor, nurses, pharmacists, telephone advice lines
goals with primary health care
- address equity issues
- provide relevant/accessible programs and services
- situate health intersectorally
- build collaborative models for programs
- embed patient, stakeholder, and partner participation
principles of primary health care
- access
- teams
- information
- healthy living
principles: access
- reducing exclusion and social disparities in health
- ensuring individuals have access to appropriate services when and where they are needed
principles: teams
- integrating health into all sectors will improve access to and coordination of care
principles: information
- promotes ease of access to health information through the use of innovative tools and technology
principles: healthy living
- embraces a focus toward health promotion and prevention, chronic illness management, and self care while recognizing the influence of other determinants that influence health
health promotion
- the process of enabling individuals to increase control over and improve their health
- increasing levels of wellness and self-actualization
how do we achieve health promotion
- build healthy public policy
- create supportive environments
- strengthen community action
- develop personal skills
- reorient health services
build healthy public policy
- consider health in all policies
create supportive environments
- how can we look at our built natural society and how it can promote/improve health
strengthen community action
- empowering communities to be able to be resilient and healthy
develop personal skills
- how can we build skills/educate people and help them to do thing in their lives
reorient health services
- moving away from securitive model of just going to the hospital and taking preventative measures
disease prevention
- action to avoid illness and disease and its effects
3 levels of disease prevention
1) primary prevention
2) secondary prevention
3) tertiary prevention
primary prevention
- stopping it before it happens
- immunizations, education, sanitation, healthy foods, safety precautions
secondary prevention
- early detection of disease so that prompt treatment can be initiated to halt disease and limit disability
- preventative screening (BP, STI, blood glucose)
tertiary prevention
- initiated in the convalescence stage of disease
- directed toward minimizing residual disability and helping individuals live productively with limitations
- maintenance
- rehabilitation/health restoration
population health approach
- aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups
population health promotion
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population health promotion: why
- why take action to improve health
- evidence based decision making
- research
- evaluation
- experiential learning
- values and assumptions
population health promotion: who
- 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
population health promotion: what
- on what can we take action
- determinants of health: areas where action could improve health
- DOH
population health promotion: how
- how can we take action to improve health
- strengthen community action
- build health public policy
- create supportive environments
- develop personal skills
- reorient health services
