The Health Care Delivery System

Question 1

refers to the act by which the National government confers power and authority upon the various local government units to perform specific functions and responsibilities, including the provision and delivery of basic health services.

Answer 1

Devolution

Question 2

Local Government Code of 1991

Answer 2

RA 7160

Question 3

made possible the devolution of powers, functions and
responsibilities to the local government, both provincial and municipal, as well as an autonomous regional government and a metropolitan authority.

Answer 3

RA 7160 or the Local Government Code of 1991

Question 4

Objectives of the Local health System

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i. Establish local health systems for effective and efficient delivery of health care services.
ii. Upgrade the health care management and service capabilities of local health facilities.
iii. Promote inter-LGU linkages and cost sharing schemes including local health care financing systems for better utilization of local health resources.
iv. Foster participation of the private sector, non-government organizations, and communities in local health systems development.
v. Ensure the quality of health service delivery at the local level.

Question 5

Each local government has _____________________ which proposes annual budgetary allocations for the operations of health services within the locality.

Answer 5

local health board

Question 6

proposes annual budgetary allocations for the operations of health services within the locality

Answer 6

local health board

Question 7

A system of health care similar to district health system in which individuals, communities and all other health care providers in a well-defined geographical area participate together in providing quality, equitable and accessible health care with Inter Local Government Unit (ILGU) partnerships as the basi

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INTER-LOCAL HEALTH SYSTEM

Question 8

Overall concept is the creation of ILHS by clustering municipalities into

Answer 8

Inter Local Health Zone (ILHZ)

Question 9

Unit of health system created for local health service
management and delivery in the Philippines

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Inter Local Health Zone (ILHZ)

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Responsibility for health has been decentralized from national to local health authorities

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Inter Local Health Zone (ILHZ)

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Has defined population within a define geographical area and comprises a central or core referral hospital and a number of primary level facilities

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Inter Local Health Zone (ILHZ)

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Provides quality, equitable and accessible health care

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Inter Local Health Zone (ILHZ)

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Importance of Inter Local Health Zone

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• re-integrate hospital and public health services for a holistic delivery of health services;
• identify areas for complementation of the stakeholders

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Composition of Inter Local Health Zone

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• People
• Health Facilities
• Health Worker
• Boundaries

Question 15

Main hospital for ILHZ and its catchment population

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Core Referral Hospital

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Main point of referral for hospital services from the community, private medical practitioner and public health services at BHS and RHUs

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Core Referral Hospital

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Smallest manageable unit in areas which are small enough to be managed without being bogged down by much bureaucracy, yet large enough to make it feasible.

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District Health System

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Needs to be established between each level of health facility.

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Two-way Referral System

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LEVELS OF THE HEALTH CARE SERVICES

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Primary Level - Barangay Health Stations, Rural Health Units
Secondary Level - District Health Services, Provincial Hospitals
Tertiary Level - Regional Health Services, National Health Services

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Primary Level

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Barangay Health Stations, Rural Health Units

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Secondary Level

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District Health Services, Provincial Hospitals

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Tertiary Level

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Regional Health Services, National Health Services

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• Devolved in cities and municipalities

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Primary Level

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Provided by center physicians, RHNs, RHMs, BHWs, traditional healers

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Primary Level

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First contact between the community members and other levels of health facility

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Primary Level

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Given by physicians with basic health training

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Secondary Level

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Serves a referral center of primary health care facilities

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Secondary Level

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Capable of performing minor surgeries and perform simple laboratory examinations

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Secondary Level

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Rendered by specialist

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Tertiary Level

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Referral center of secondary care facilities

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Tertiary Level

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Other Health Facilities

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1. Primary Care Facility
2. Custodial Care Facility
3. Diagnostic Facility
4. Specialized Outpatient Facility

Question 32

health centers, out-patients clinics and dental clinics

Answer 32

Primary Care Facility
Without in-patient

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short stay facility where the patient spends 1 to 2 days before discharge like infirmaries and birthing facilities

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Primary Care Facility
With in-patient beds

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custodial psychiatric facilities, substance/drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation centers, sanitaria/leprosaria, and nursing homes

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Custodial Care Facility

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laboratory, radiologic and nuclear medicine facility

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Diagnostic Facility

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dialysis clinic, cancer chemotherapy clinic, cancer radiation facility, physical medicine and rehabilitation center/clinic

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Specialized Outpatient Facility

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directed towards healthy individuals or populations, focusing on the prevention of the emergence of risk factors such as unhealthy lifestyle behavior

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Health Promotion

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aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs

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Primary Level

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This is done by preventing exposures to hazards that cause disease or injury, altering unhealthy or unsafe behaviors that can lead to disease or injury, and increasing resistance to disease or injury should exposure
occur

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Primary Level

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This is done by detecting and treating disease
or injury as soon as possible to halt or slow its
progress, encouraging personal strategies to
prevent reinjury or recurrence, and
implementing programs to return people to
their original health and function to prevent
long-term problems

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Secondary Level

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aims to reduce the effects of the disease once established in an individual

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Tertiary Level

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Essential health care made universally
accessible to individuals and families in the
community by means acceptable to them
through their full participation and at a cost
that the community and country can afford at
every stage of development.

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Primary Health Care

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Basic Concepts of Primary Health Care

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Health s related to social structures
Health and development are interrelated
People’s participation is essential
Community organizing is the core in PHC
Use of appropriate technology

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Goals of Primary Health Care

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i. To develop and maximize people
potential and self-reliance of the
community for the improvement of their
own health.
ii. To maximize the contributions of
other sectors of health
iii. To maximize the extension of
effective health care services to
the periphery.

Question 45

PHC Components/ Elements

Answer 45

Health education
Communicable disease control

Expanded program on immunization
Locally endemic disease treatment
Environmental sanitation
Maternal and Child health and Family
Planning
Essential drugs provision
Nutrition and adequate food provision
Treatment of emergency cases and provision of medical care

Question 46

Principles of Primary Health Care

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1. Accessibility, availability, and acceptability of health services
2. Provision of quality basic, and essential health services
3. Community participation
4. Self-reliance
5. Recognition of interrelationship between health and development
6. Social mobilization
7. Decentralization

Question 47

PHC Pillars

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Use of appropriate technology
Support mechanism made available
Active community participation
Intra and inter sectoral linkages

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Initial link, 1st contact of community

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Village Health Workers

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Works in liaison w/ the local health services workers

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Village Health Workers

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Provides elementary curative and preventive health care measures

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Village Health Workers

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Examples of Village Health Workers

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-Trained Community Health worker
- Auxillary health volunteer
- Traditional birth attendant
- Healers

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1st source of professional health care

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Intermediate Level

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Attends to health problems beyond the competence of village health workers

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Intermediate Level

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Provides support to the frontline health workers in terms of supervision, training, referral services and supplies thru linkages with other sectors

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Intermediate Level

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Examples of Intermediate Level

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• General Health Practitioners
• Public Health Nurses
• Midwives
• RSI

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Establishes close contact with the village and intermediate level health workers to promote the continuity of care from hospital to community to home

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Health Personnel of First-Line Hospitals

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Provides back-up health services for cases requiring hospitals or diagnostic facilities not available in health care

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Health Personnel of First-Line Hospitals

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Examples of Health Personnel of First-Line Hospitals

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• Physicians with Specialization
• Nurses
• Dentists