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What were the core principles of PHC
Universal access to care Equity Community participation Intersectoral collaboration Appropriate use of resources
5 key principles of WHO
- reducing exclusion and social disparities in health
- organising health services around people’s needs and expectations
- integrating health into all sectors
- pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue
- Increasing stakeholder participation
Key challenges for PHC
- Misperception that PHC only provides ‘basic care
- Financing PHC policy difficult
- Rise in chronic disease and multiple co-morbidities
- Growing burden of disease related to mental health
- Accessibility of services due to location
PHC changes in last 20 yrs
- PHC is now moving beyond providing health care to individuals to a population approach.
- Growth in economy
- Improvements in providing person-centred care
- Improvements in quality of care, and patient
Four committments of Astana Declaration
(1) make bold political choices for health across all sectors;
(2) build sustainable primary health care;
(3) empower individuals and communities; and
(4) align stakeholder support to national policies,
What is Australia’s ‘Health tracker’ system
Released in 2017, Australia’s ‘Health Tracker’ identifies Socioeconomic Status and tracks health risk factors, disease and premature death by socioeconomic status.
It then developshealth targets and indicatorsbased on theWorld Health Organisation’s 2025 targetsto improve health around the globe.
What are the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s)
- Eradicating extreme hunger and poverty
- Achieving universal primary education
- Promoting gender equality and empowering women
- Reducing child mortality
- Improving maternal health
- Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
- Ensuring environmental sustainability
- Creating global partnerships for development
What are the Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2015, the General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building on the principle of “leaving no one behind”, the new Agenda emphasizes a holistic approach to achieving sustainable development for all.
Global health topics
- Maternal and newborn health issues
- Human Trafficking
- Combating HIV/AIDs worldwide
- Environmental Sustainability
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Responding to emerging infectious diseases eg. Ebola
- Global Warming
30 competencies separated in to 6 subscales:
Global Burden of Disease Health Implications of Migration Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Globalisation of Health and Healthcare Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings Health as a Human Right and Develop
In the video: Culturally Competent Healthcare video this week from Towson University, the presenter talks about the CLAS standards. What are these?
Culturally, Linguistically Appropriate Services.
a set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
What are the 8 NSQHS Standards
- Clinical governance standard
- Preventing and controlling health-care associated infection standard
- Comprehensive care standard
- Blood management standard
- Partnering with consumers standard
- Medication safety standard
- Communicating for safety standard
- Recognising and responding to acute deterioration standard.
What is an example of an international surveillance
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)
What is the Global Patient Safety Collaborative (GPSC)
WHO and the UK Government created the Global Patient Safety Collaborative (GPSC) to help countries improve the safety of their health systems
Why do we need to learn about public health
reporting?
- Reporting enables us to maintain tracking of illness and diseases
- Identifying and responding to communicable diseases outbreaks
- Monitoring and preventing further public health threats
- The information contributes to public health policy
