M5 Health Care Service Flashcards
(109 cards)
What is the VITAL ELEMENT OF GOOD SERVICE DELIVERY?
- good service delivery is a vital element of any health system
What is HEALTH CARE AND SERVICES?
- promotion and maintenance of health is the responsibility of the government
What are the KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF QUALITY HEALTH CARE SERVICES?
- Comprehensiveness
- Accessibility
- Coverage
- Continuity
- Quality
- Person-centered
- Coordination
- Accountability and Efficiency
What is COMPREHENSIVENESS?
- a comprehensive range of health services is provided, APPROPRIATENESS TO THE NEEDS OF THE TARGET POPULATION, including preventative, curative, palliative, and rehabilitative services and health promotion activities.
- provide a service to understand the diagnosis and possible treatments of a disease in a patient.
What is ACCESSIBILITY?
- services are directly and PERMANENTLY ACCESSIBLE WITH NO UNDUE BARRIERS OF COST, LANGUAGE, CULTURE, OR GEOGRAPHY. Health services are CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE, with a routine point of entry to the service network at the primary care level (not at the specialist or hospital level).
What is COVERAGE?
- service delivery is designed so that all people in a defined TARGET POPULATION ARE COVERED, i.e., the sick and the healthy, all income groups, and all social groups.
- HMO, PhilHealth, Green Card
What is CONTINUITY?
- service delivery is organized to provide an individual with CONTINUITY OF CARE across the network of services, health conditions, levels of care, and over the life cycle.
What is QUALITY?
- health services are of high quality, i.e., they are EFFECTIVE, SAFE, CENTERED ON THE PATIENT’S NEEDS, AND GIVEN IN A TIMELY FASHION.
What is PERSON-CENTERED?
- services are organized around the person, not the disease or the financing. Users PERCEIVE HEALTH SERVICES TO BE RESPONSIVE AND ACCEPTABLE TO THEM. There is participation from the target population in service delivery design and assessment. People are partners in their own health care.
What is COORDINATION?
- local area health service networks are ACTIVELY COORDINATED, ACROSS TYPES OF PROVIDERS, TYPE OF CARE, LEVELS OF SERVICE DELIVERY, AND FOR BOTH ROUTINE AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. The patient’s primary care provider facilitates the route through the needed services and works in collaboration with other levels and types of providers. Coordination also takes place with other sectors (e.g., social services) and partners (e.g., community organizations).
What is ACCOUNTABILITY AND EFFICACY?
- health services are well managed so as TO ACHIEVE the CORE ELEMENTS described above with minimum wastage of resources. Managers are allocated the necessary authority TO ACHIEVE PLANNED OBJECTIVES AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR OVERALL PERFORMANCE AND RESULTS. Assessment includes appropriate mechanisms for the participation of the target population and civil society.
What is midwifery?
- the oldest component of health care. the assistance of delivery whether performed by a relative or by a village matriarch is a feature of practically every culture.
What INCLUDES IN A CHILD CARE?
- Health education
- Growth monitoring
- Nutritional evaluation
- Immunization
- Oral rehydration
- Treatment of simple disease
What are the ROLES OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN A MATERNAL CARE?
- Prenatal care
- Screening in infancy, childhood adolescence
- Encouragement of breastfeeding
- Immunization
- Prevention of childhood diseases
What is the CURRENT MATERNAL CHILD CARE PRACTICE?
- Recognition and treatment of diarrheal disease
- Identification of risk factors in both pregnancy and childhood
- Improved nutritional programs with appropriate food supplementation
- Better delivery techniques
- More sophisticated referral options
WHY DO WOMEN NOT GET THE CARE THEY NEED?
o Poverty
o Distance to facilities
o Lack of information
o Inadequate and poor-quality services
o Cultural beliefs and practices
What are the COMMON LABORATORY TESTS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN? (done by Medical Technologist)
- Complete Blood Count (CBC)
- Blood type with Rh Typing
- VDRL/RPR
- Hepatitis B
- HIV
- OGTT
- Urinalysis
What are the COMMON LABORATORY TEST FOR NEWBORN?
- Newborn Screening (NBS)
- Expanded Newborn Screening (ENBS)
What is NEWBORN SCREENING? (NBS)
- congenital hypothyroidism (CH), congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), phenylketonuria (PKU), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, galactosemia (GAL), and maple syrup urine disease (MSUD)
- done by Medical Technologist through heel puncture (heel prick)
What is EXPANDED NEWBORN SCREENING? (ENBS)
- the expanded screening will INCLUDE 22 MORE DISORDERS such as hemoglobinopathies and additional metabolic disorders, namely, organic acid, fatty acid oxidation, and amino acid disorders. The latter are included in the standard care across the globe.
What are the DISORDER SCREENED DURING POST NATAL CARE?
- CH (Congenital Hypothyroidism)
- CAH (Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia)
- GAL (Galactosemia)
- PKU (Phenylketonuria)
- G6PD
What are the EFFECTS SCREENED AND THE EFFECTS WHEN TREATED? (CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM)
- severe mental retardation; normal
What are the EFFECTS SCREENED AND THE EFFECTS WHEN TREATED? (CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA)
- death; alive and normal
What are the EFFECTS SCREENED AND THE EFFECTS WHEN TREATED? (GALACTOSEMIA)
- deaths of cataracts; alive and normal