PUBLIC HEALTH Flashcards
List the functions (roles) of management
Planning
- Set goals
- Identify ways to achieve those goals
- Identify resources need to achieve the goal
Leadership
-influencing and motivating workers
-directing resources
Action
Communication
Evaluation
Budges
Organisation
-define work duties
-identification and allocation of activities and resources
Define screening
Organized attempted to detect amazing apparently healthy people in the community for disorders or risk factors which they are unaware of with the intention of doing something about it
Role of PT in health screening
Primary prevention: prevention of disease by controlling the risk factor
Secondary prevention: reduction in consequences of a disease by early diagnosis and treatment
Tertiary prevention: reduction in the complications of a disease through rehab
Definition of district health system
A vehicle to deliver primary health care
It provides the health sector with a management framework that can deliver health care in a cost effective and integrated manner
What are the functions of DHS
Organisation, planning and management
Financing and resource allocation
Community participation
Intersectoral action
What does the DHS include
Community participation
Comprehensive health care delivery
Intersectoral collaboration
Bottom-up approach to planning
List the 4 outcomes in the NHS delivery agreement
Improve life expectancy
Decrease the burden of disease from HIV and TB
Decrease infant, child and maternal mortality rates
Improve the effectiveness of the health system
List the health implications of public health laws
Protection of community health
Organisation of health services
Ensures quantity and quality of care
Prohibits conduct that is harmful to the health of individual and communities
Provides for the social financing of health e.g medical scheme act
Protection of patient rights
Authorizes surveillance over the quality of care e.g Regulation-profession
The importance of public health policies
People know how to act in society
All individuals are treated equally and no one sees themselves as greater than others during to social status
The public can measure the achievements of the government
The public can be made aware of the intentions of the government
What is a green paper
Discussion document on policy option
Outlines what ministers want to do and allows the public to comment
What is a white paper
Broad statement of government policy or collated inputs from the public after corrections have been made
Define health care system
An Organisation of people, institutions and resources that delivers health care services to meet the health needs of a target population
List the building blocks of health care system
Service delivery
Health workforce
Information
Medical products
Financing
Leadership
Name 3 focus areas of health promotion
Good governance
Environmental support
Strengthen literacy
List 5 action areas
Building healthy public policies
Creating supportive environment
Strengthen community action
Develop personal skills
Reorienting health services from curative to preventative
