LESSON 4: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE and UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE Flashcards
_ health leaders from around 200
countries attended the international conference for PHC
held at the Alma Ata, USSR initiated by WHO and United
Nation Children Fund.
September 6-12, 1978
Health is a basis fundamental right.
There exist global burden of health in equalities among
populations
Economic and social development is of basic importance
for the full attainment of health for all.
Governments have a responsibility for the health of
their people.
The Alma Ata Conference made the following
Declarations:
In the Philippines, PHC was implemented through
Letter of Instruction (LOI) 949 (1979) by than
President F. Marcos that has an underlying theme
“Health in the Hands of the People by 2020.”
Forty years from the inception of PHC in 1978,
world health leaders converged once again last
October 2018 at Astana, Kasakhstan to affirm
the declaration of Alma-ata that
health is a
fundamental right of all people and that all
should be affordable equitable health care
access.
Essential health care based on practical,
scientifically sound and socially acceptable
methods and technology made universally
accessible to individuals and families in the
community through their full participation and
at a cost that the community and country can
afford to maintain at every stage of their
development in the spirit of self-reliance and
self-determination.” PHC is often referred to as
the foundation of UHC or a path to UHC.
PHC
Health for all means that health is accessible,
acceptable & affordable to everyone& based in
the community workplace. This goal is
achievable by high level wellness.
HEALTH FOR ALL (HFA) by the year 2000
refer to communication,
cooperation, and collaboration within the health
Two way referral system ensures competent care,
maximum use of availability of resources and continuity
of care
Intra-sectoral Linkages –
= encompass the
communication, cooperation, and collaboration
between the health sector and sectors of society like
education, public works agriculture, and local
government officials.
Inter-sectoral linkages
1) Doctor to the Barrios (DTTB) Program
2) Registered Nurses Health Enhancement and Local
Service (RN HEALS)
Programs of DOH to ensure equitable distribution of
manpower to the rural areas
mplies the use of drugs,
methods, procedures, techniques, equipment or
materials that are scientifically sound, but also provides
a socially and environmentally acceptable service or
product at the least economic cost
Appropriate technology
Traditional and Alternative Medicines
Act of 1997 were signed into law through the efforts of
then Secretary of Health Juan Flavier.
RA 8423
Sum of activities in which health agencies
engage to influence the thinking, motivation,
judgement and action of people.
- Consist of techniques that stimulate, arouse and
guide people to live healthfully.
- Process whereby knowledge, attitude to
improve practice of the people are changed to
improve individual, family and community
. Education for health
- The nature of this public health program is to
prevent the transmission of endemic diseases
through vector control and detection and early
treatment to reduce the case and prevent
deaths.
Locally endemic disease control
The immunization against poliomyelitis,
measles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and
other deadly but preventable diseases are given
for free by the government
EPI
Protection of the mother and child against
illness and other risks that would ensure a good
health for the community.
Maternal and child health including
responsible parenthood
