Primary Health Care and Social Justice Flashcards
Social Determinants of Health
income and financial status, employment and working, education and literacy, childhood experience, physical environments, social support and coping skills, healthy behaviours, access to health care services, biology and genetic endowment, gender, culture, race/religion
Primary Health Care
Meetings peoples health needs through comprehensive, collaborative and preventative care at all stages of life, prioritizing key health services that are aimed at individuals—populations through primary care and public health as the central element of an integrated system. addressing broad determinants of health, empowering individuals—populations to optimize their health
Primary care vs Primary Health Care
Primary care is the delivery of community based health services, primary care providers coordinate the care of individuals and enable equitable and timely access to services and providers where as PHC us a comprehensive approach to health care, it seeks to improve the health of populations across the continuum of care birth-death, stresses person, community and population oriented strategies for achieving health. Comprehensive, integrated and coordinated services
Essentials of PHC
accessibility, active public participation, health promotion and disease prevention, use of appropriate technology and innovation, inter-sectoral cooperation and collaboration
UN definition of Social Justice
underlying principal for peaceful and prosperous coexistence within and among nations. Advance social justice when remove barriers that people face for race/ gender etc.
CNA definition of Social Justice
the equitable of fair distributions of society’s benefits, responsibilities and their consequences. Focuses on relative position of the social advantage of an individual or group in relation to others as well as on the root cause of inequities and what can be done to eliminate them
Health Equity
social justice goal focused on pursuing the highest possible standard of health and healthcare for all people
Health Equality
Aims to ensure that everyone receives the same things in order to enjoy a full and healthy life
Health inequity
socially constructed, unjust and avoidable differences in health and healthcare between and within groups of people
privilege
a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
marginalized
person group or concept treated as peripheral or insignificant
