Primary HealthCare

Question 1

 Prevention, treatment, and management of
illness and the preservation of mental
health through the services offered by the
medical, nursing, and allied health professions

 Embraces all the goods and services
designed to promote health

 Encompass everything done by healthcare
professionals
 Prevention of diseases, promotion of
health and preservation of life

Answer 1

Healthcare

Question 2

 Promote the concept of primary healthcare
 Evaluate present healthcare situation
 Define principles of Primary Health Care
 Define roles of government, national, and
international organizations
 Formulate recommendations for development

Answer 2

The Alma Ata Declaration

Question 3

Main guiding concept in Primary Health Care:

Answer 3

Empowerment of the people

Question 4

The Local Government Code of 1991
which resulted in devolution

 Transferred the power and authority
from the national government to

local government to develop self-
reliant communities

Answer 4

 Republic Act 7160

Question 5

Vision: Health for All Filipinos was set
by DOH Secretary Juan Flavier

 Goal: Health for All Filipinos and Health
in the Hands of the People by the Year
2020

Answer 5

Republic Act 7160

Question 6

is characterized by
partnership and empowerment of
the people to provide essential
health services that are community
based

Answer 6

 Concept of PHC

Question 7

Mission: In partnership with the people, provide equity, access and quality
health care especially the marginalized
which brought about the Sentrong Sigla
movement in order to achieve it

Answer 7

Republic Act 7160

Question 8

is a whole-of-society approach to
health that aims at ensuring the highest
possible level of health and well-being
and their equitable distribution by
focusing on people’s needs and as early
as possible along the continuum from
health promotion and disease prevention
to treatment, rehabilitation and palliative
care, and as close as feasible to people’s
everyday environment

Answer 8

Primary Healthcare

Question 9

is people-centered rather than
disease-centered

Answer 9

PHC

Question 10

is the most inclusive, equitable, cost- effective and efficient approach to enhance
people’s physical and mental health, as well
as social well-being

Answer 10

PHC

Question 11

trained
community workers or health
volunteers

Answer 11

Barangay Health Workers

Question 12

Med tech, Doctors, Nurses, etc.

Answer 12

Intermediate Primary Health Care
Worker

Question 13

Equal access, equal needs
 Every person and group are given
same resources

Answer 13

Equality

Question 14

Being fair and just
 Know and recognize that different
communities have different
circumstances
 More goods and services are given to
those who are in need and more
vulnerable to achieve similar health
outcome

Answer 14

Equity

Question 15

Four Cornerstones/Pillars in Primary Health care

Answer 15

equitable distibution
active community participation
intra and inter-sectoral linkages
use of appropriate technology

Question 16

Health care provided by center
physicians, public health nurse, rural
midwives, barangay health workers, and traditional healers
 Where health concerns are
addressed first
 No laboratory services and minor
surgeries are not performed

Answer 16

Primary Level of Care

Question 17

Given by physicians and other allied
health professionals for the assessment
and treatment of health problems
 Minor surgeries and simple laboratory
procedures

Answer 17

Secondary Level of Care

Question 18

Healthcare is rendered by specialist in
health facilities
 Complicated case and Intensive Care are
provided
 Major surgeries

Answer 18

Tertiary Level of Care

Question 19

it is a state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease and
infirmity

 A dynamic state or conditions of humans

that is multidimensional in nature
 Results from one’s interaction and
adaptation to his or her environment

Answer 19

Health

Question 20

refers to condition which enables a
person to maintain a strong and
healthy body

Answer 20

Physical Health

Question 21

refers to how a person thinks of
himself, control his emotions and
adjust to environment (psychological)

Answer 21

Mental Health

Question 22

refers to ways a person feels, think and
acts towards everybody around him

Answer 22

Social Health

Question 23

Can be defined as bringing about social
change that allows people to achieve their
human potential

 Success of health programs in the
community is measured by bringing
about behavioral changes

 It is a process rather than an outcome

 Often regarded as something that is done by
one group to another

Answer 23

Development

Question 24

is central to development - Gro
Harlem Brundtland
 Viewing good health as a mean to further
economic development

Answer 24

Health

Question 25

as constituent
components of development

Answer 25

Health and healthcare

Question 26

True or False. The link between health and economic
development is two-directional because health
depends on economic development in the same
way that economic development depends on
health
 Low income = poor health

Answer 26

true