Week 8 Flashcards
What is the decalration of Alma Ata?
It was a call to action for hte world to recognise the importance of priamry health care.
- International Conference on Primary Healht Care, Alma-Ata, ussr, 6-12 sEPTEMBER 1978
What is primary health care?
Primary helath care ahs an individual and poopulation focus:
“It is the first level of contact of individuals, the famil and community with the national health system brigning health care as close as possible to wehrere poeple live and work”
What are the principles of priamry helath care?
Equitable distribution of health services
Community participation
Teamwork and coordination of aptient care
Multisectoral collaboration
Appropriate technology and evidence-based
Whata are the essential componenets of priamry health care?
- Proveides preventive health services (immunisation, screening, disease-control etc)
- Provides treatment - ie. curatice and rehabilitative services
- Provides essntal drugs
- Provides education concerning the prevailing health problems and their prevention and control (i.e. health promotion)
- Provides maternal and child helathc are (and family planning)
- Includes promotion of food supply, proper nutrition, safe water and sanitation (health promotion on public health issues)
- Includes community development and advocacy
What are the distinctive features of primary health care?
Available Accessible Affordable Acceptable Accontable Comprehensive Person-centred Continuity of care Coordination
Why is priamry health care so important (3 main reasons)?
Better ehalth outcomes
Lower costs
Greater health equity
What are teh 3 different types of disease prevention?
Primary repvention - to prevent the onset of disease (this aims to reduce the incidence of disease)
Secondary prevention - to detect disease early and intervene early to prevent disease a progression (or to cure), in those who are asymptomatic - (About catching it early)
What are some examples of priamry prevention?
Immunisations Smoking cessationa dvice Safe consumption of alcohol Diet and weight loss strategies Advice to increase physical activity Preventing falls in the elderly Handwahsing
What are some examples of secondary prevention?
Screening
Treating asymptomatic disease
What is health promotion?
Health promotion is the process of enabling people ot increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health
What is the ottawa charter?
The Ottawa charter explains health promotion. It is a statement agreement that:
- Healht is everyones responsibliity
- Ways to ‘promote ehalth’ are broad and do not just involve the ehalths ector
- Participation of people in influencing their own health is paramount
What are the 5 actions areas of the Ottawa Charter (health promotion)?
- Builf healthy public polcy
- Create supportice enviornemnts
- Strengthen community action
- Develop personal skills
- Reorientate health services
