| Criteria for appropriate health technology: | Effective
Safe
Affordable
sustainable
acceptable |
| Is an over-all approach to providing people access to basic healthcare and ultimately improve health of communities.
It calls for collective efforts among all stakeholders in society and gives premium to people empowerment in health; that is allowing them to improve health thru their own efforts.
This approach has three dimensions. | Primary health care |
| In the medical model of care, provision of interventions to cure specific conditions of individuals at the level of the community is termed as?
Awofeso states that this approach is usually termed as preventive medicine.
Is first level of healthcare delivery in which a generalist like a physician or a nurse renders medical and nursing services for individuals and population groups. | primary care |
| The three dimensions of primary health care: | First it is a goal
Second it is a strategy
third it is a philosophy |
| What primary health care dimension:
seeks to ensure that all people regardless of age, sex, creed, religion, ideology, and race are provided access to basic health services.
This is anchored on the declaration of health as a human right and therefore provides the impetus for universal health coverage. | primary health care as a goal. |
| What primary health care dimension: it promotes collaboration among all sectors in society and values partnership between public and private organizations.
This highlights the fact that health is a shared reality and concerns everyone in the community. | Primary health care as a strategy |
| What primary health care dimension:
it guides public health practitioners to rally communities to assume responsibility for their health and to involve thenselves in issues affecting their health. | Primary health care as a philosophy |
| Traditional cornerstones/Pillars of pHC: | Active community participation
inter and intra-sectoral linkages
Use of Appropriate Technology
Support System Made Available |
| Core Values of PHC: | Social Justice
Equity
Respect for Human Dignity and Human Rights
Solidarity
Self-reliance |
| Essential Health Services in PHC: | Health education
Immunization
Essential medicines/drugs
Mother and child health services
Endemic disease control and management
Nutrition
Treatment of simple conditions
Sanitation and access to safe water supply |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 1 | Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 2 | Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community. |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 3 | Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues. |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 4 | Mobilize community partnerships and action to identfy and solve health problems. |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 5 | Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 6 | Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 7 | Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable. |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 8 | Assure competent public and personal health care workforce |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 9 | Evaluate effectivenes, accessibility , and quality of personal and population-based health services. |
| 10 Essential Public Health Services: 10 | Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems |
| Elements of Primary health care: | 1.) primary care and essential public health functions as the core of integrated services
2.) multisectoral policy and action
3.) Empowered people and communities. |
| Determinants of succes for PHC: | 1. Knowledge and capacity building
2. Human resources for health
3. Financing
4. Technology |
| Criteria for appropriate health technology: | Effective
Safe
Affordable
sustainable
acceptable |
| Common modalities of Traditional Alternative Healthcare in the Philippines:
A method of healing and health promotion that uses the application of pressure on acupuncture points without puncturing the skin. | Acupressure |
| Common modalities of Traditional Alternative Healthcare in the Philippines:
A method of healing using special needles to puncture and stimulate specific anatomical points on the body | Acupuncture |
| Common modalities of Traditional Alternative Healthcare in the Philippines:
The art and science of the sense of smell whereby essential aromatic oils are combined and then applied to the body in some form of treatment. | Aromatherapy |
