LEC 2 Flashcards
(94 cards)
13 Threats to Global Health
- Elevating Health in the Climate Debate
- Delivering Health in Conflict and Crisis
- Making Health Care Fairer
- Expanding Access to Medicine
- Stopping infectious diseases
- Preparing for epidemics
- Protecting people from dangerous products
- Investing in the people who defend our health
- Keeping adolescents safe
- Earning public trust
- Harnessing new technologies
- Protecting the medicines that protect us resistance and other medicine
- Keeping health care clean
Leading Causes of Maternal Mortality (2010)
- Complications related to pregnancy occurring in the course of labor, delivery and puerperium
- Hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Pregnancy with abortive outcome
The neonatal mortality rate is __ deaths per 1,000 live births.
14 DEATHS
Infant mortality has decreased from 34 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1993 to __ deaths per 1,000 live births in 2017.
21
Filipino women age ____ initiate sexual intercourse at a median age of 21.2 years.
25-49
The median age of first marriage for women is ___ years
22.5 years
Median age at first birth is ____ years
23.5 years
Fertility decreased from 4.1 children per woman in 1993 to ___ children per woman in 2017
2.7
The mean ideal family size in the Philippines is ____ children for all women and ____ children for currently married women.
3.0 children
___% of married women use a method of family planning. __ in five married women use a modern method of family planning, most commonly the pill (__%) and female sterilization (__%).
Two
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21% and 7%
Another __% of married women use a traditional method of family planning, such as _______(10%) and ______ (4%).
withdrawal and rhythm
More than ___ in 4 births (78%) are delivered in a ______, primarily in public sector facilities. ___in five births are delivered at ____.
health facility
—
One
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home
__% of Filipino children age 12-23 months have received all eight basic vaccinations - 1 dose each of BCG and measles-containing vaccine and 3 doses each of DPT - containing vaccine and polio vaccine.
____ percent of children have received none of the recommended vaccinations.
Nine
Breastfeeding is very common in the Philippines, with __% of children ever breastfed.
93%
PhilHealth coverage has increased from 38% in 2008 to 60% in ____ to ___% in 2017.
66% - 2017
60% in 2013
______ is often viewed as a group of people living in a particular area with common beliefs, values, and traditions
Community
Bound by their location, people develop common ____ and ____ that eventually evolve as ____.
beliefs and values
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culture
In the Philippines, the concept of health and illness can be summed up in either presence or absence of ____ and ______
signs and symptoms
What is Public Health?
It is the science and art of:
(1) preventing disease
(2) prolonging life, and
(3) promoting health and efficiency thru organized community effort for:
The science and art of (1) preventing disease, (2) prolonging life, and (3) promoting health and efficiency thru organized community effort for:
- Sanitation of the environment
- Control of communicable infections
- Education of the individual in personal hygiene
- Organization of medical & nursing services for the early diagnosis & preventive treatment of disease
- Development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health
Core/Primary Public Health Functions
- Assessment
- Policy Development
- Assurance
Regular collection, analysis & information sharing about health conditions, risks & resources in a community
Assessment
Core/Primary Public Health Functions
Use of information gathered during assessment to develop local & state health policies & to direct resources toward those policies
Policy Development
Core/Primary Public Health Functions
- Focuses on the availability of necessary health services throughout the community
- Includes maintaining the ability to both public health agencies & private providers to manage day-to-day operations & having the capacity to respond to critical situations & emergencies.
Assurance
Core/Primary Public Health Functions