Primary Healthcare & Health System Flashcards
What is health?
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
It is a fundamental right and it is a state of optimum capacity of an individual.
Health
What is primary health care?
Medical care provided by the health care professional.
First contact of the patient in a health care system.
Primary health care
argued that the overall health of the population bore less relationship to medical advances than to standards living and nutrition.
Thomas Maquilan
The landmark event for Primary Healthcare was the International Conference on PHC that took place in
Alma Ata
This means disapproval of the other specialization of health personnel in developing countries and of top-down health campaigns
Opposition to Medical Elitism
relevant to the needs of the people, specifically and scientifically sound and financially feasible
Appropriate Technology
Declaration linked to health and development. Health work was perceived not as an isolated and short-lived intervention but as part of a process improvement of living conditions.
Health as a Tool for Socioeconomic Development
it is essential healthcare 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 a community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.
primary health care
Elements of PHC
Education about health problems and solutions
Locally endemic diseases prevention and control
Essential drugs provision
Maternal and child health care
Expanded Immunization against major infectious diseases
Nutrition and adequate food supply
Treatment of common diseases and injuries
Basic Sanitation and adequate supply of safe water
PHC promotes
Self-reliance Participation Planning Organization U Implementation Control U Evaluation
PHC Composition
Physicians Nurses Midwives Auxiliaries Community workers Traditional practitioners
CHARACTERISTICS OF PHC PROGRAM
Appropriate Acceptable Affordable Accessible Effective Efficient Equity Empowerment
A method by which healthcare is financed, organized, and delivered to a population.
HEALTH SYSTEM
