What is Health Flashcards
What is primary health care?
“PHC 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.
What are the three inter-related and synergistic components of PHC
- comprehensive integrated health services that embrace primary care as well as public health goods and functions as central pieces
- Multi-sectoral policies and actions to address the upstream and wider determinants of health
- engaging and empowering individuals, families, and communities for increased social participation and enhanced self-care and self-reliance in health
What shift must occur in health systems for UHC to be universal?
health systems designed around diseases and institutions towards health systems designed for people
What does PHC require governments to do?
to emphasize the importance of action beyond the health sector in order to pursue a whole-of government approach to health, including health-in-all-policies, a strong focus on equity and interventions that encompass the entire life-course.
Whys is PHC important?
What has the commitment to PHC been codified and reiterated in?
Declaration of Astana, the accompanying World Health Assembly Resolution 72/2, the 2019 Global Monitoring Report on UHC, and the United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on UHC
