Primary Healthcare Flashcards
A whole of society approach to effectively organize and strengthen national health system to bring services to health and wellbeing closer to community
Primary Health Care
3 Components of Primary Health Care
- Integrated health services to meet people’s health needs throughout their life
- Addressing broader determinants of health through multisectoral policy and action
- Empowering individuals, families and communities to take charge to their own health
Widely regarded as the most inclusive, equitable, and cost effective way to achieve universal health coverage
Primary health care
Key to strengthening the resiliance of health system to prepare for, respond to and recover from shock and crisis.
Primary Health care
A seminal milestone in global health where the principle of primary healthcare were first outlined
Declaration of Alma-Ata in 1978
Who ratified the Declaration of Astana at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care
Global Leaders
Where did the ratification of Declaration of Astana at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care took place.
Astana, Kazakhstan in October 2018
It is where countries declared their commitments to expanding the delivery of and prioritize primary health care as the cornerstone of a sustainable people centered community based and integrated health system and the foundation of achieving universal health coverage.
UN high-level meeting on universal health coverage
Rationale for Adopting Primary Health Care
- Magnitude of Health Problems
- Inadequate and Unequal distribution of health resources
- Increasing cost of medical care
- Isolation of healthcare activities from other development activities
Goal of Primary Health Care
Health for All Filipinos - by the yr. 2000
Health in the Hands of the People - by the yr. 2020
An improved state of health and quality of life for all people attained through
Self-reliance
Permeate as the core strategy in the effective provision of essential health services that are community based, acceptable and sustainable, at a cost which the community and the government can afford.
Partnership with and Empowerment of the People
Objectives of Primary Health Care
- Improvement in the level of health care of the community
- Favorable population growth structure
- Reduction in the prevalence preventable, communicable and other disease
- Reduction of morbidity and mortality rates especially among infants and children
- Extension of essential health services with priority given to the undeserved sectors
- Improvement in basic sanitation
- Development of the capability of the community aimed at self-reliance
- Maximizing the contributionof the other sectors for the social and economic development of the community
Principle of the Primary Health Care
- 4 A’s
2.Community Participation
3.People are at the center, object, and subject of development
4.Self-reliance
5.Partnership between the community and health agencies in the provision of quality of life.
6.Recognition of interrelationship between the health and development
7.Social mobilization
8.Decentralization
4 A’s
Accessibility
Availability
Affordability
Acceptability and Appropriateness of health services
Elements of Primary Health Care
- Education
- Water and Sanitation
- Nutrition
- Maternal and Child Health
- Immunization
- Prevention of disease
- Treatment
- Drug Availability
Amount of particular disease that is usually present in a community
Endemic Disease
Endemic Disease is also called as
Baseline
Epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents and affects many people
Pandemic Disease
Sudden increase in the number of cases of a above what is normally expected in that population in a specific area
Epidemic Disease
Major Strategies of Primary Health Care
- Elevating Health to a Comprehensive and Sustained National Effort
- Promoting and Supporting Community Managed Health Care
- Increasing Efficiencies in the Health Sector
- Advancing Essential National Health Research
Four Pillars in Primary Health Care
- Active Community Participation
- Intra and Inter-sectoral Linkages
- Use of Appropriate Technology
- Support mechanism made available
consists of all organizations, people, and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore, or maintain health.
Health System
Stewardship involves
leadership and governance
