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Primary Health Care Across the LifespanQuestions and Answers How is the Primary Healthcare approach effective? - correct answer it provides a systemic way to identify needs, create nursing care plans and implement strategies that will not only address current health issues but also prevent future ones
What is PHC? - correct answer a whole-of-society approach to health that
aims at ensuring the highest possible level of health and well-being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people's needs and as early as possible along the continuum from health promotion and disease prevention
to treatment, rehab and palliative care, and as close as feasible to people's everyday environment
Primary Health Care.... - correct answer attempts to balance the system of health promotion, disease prevention, rehab and illness treatment. Considers how best to use our resources. uses determinants of health as the foundation.
8 essential elements of PHC - correct answer (used as guiding principles to determine direction and to measure success)
- education about health problems and prevention techniques
- food supply and proper nutrition - adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitization Primary Health Care Across the Lifespan
Questions and Answers - maternal and child health, including family planning
- immunization against major disease
- appropriate treatment of common disease and injuries using the PCH principle of appropriate technology
- provision of essential drugs
5 Key components of PHC - correct answer - Accessibility - active public participation
- health promotion and chronic disease prevention and management
- use of appropriate technology and innovation - intersectoral cooperation
(provide equitable, timely and accessible health care for individuals, families, and communities
PHC Component 1- Accessibility - correct answer - services are available, affordable, and provided equally to all individuals regardless of their gender, age, ethnicity or location
- accessibility if so much more than having a service geographically close
PHC Component 2- Active Public Participation - correct answer - involving all of the community's Primary Health Care Across the Lifespan
Questions and Answers resources in promoting health and addressing health problems at a grassroots level
- working with the community not for the community; allows community to take ownership for the health and wellness of its people
PHC Component 3- Health Promotion and chronic disease prevention and management - correct answer - health promotion is the process if enabling ppl to increase control over, and to improve their health
- involves helping a community strengthen the socioenvironmental conditions that contribute to good health
PHC Component 4- use of appropriate technology and innovation - correct answer - using medical technologies that are affordable, feasible and culturally acceptable to individuals and the community
PHC Component 5- Intersectoral cooperation and collaboration - correct answer - communities health and well-being isn't simply dependent on effective health care services only
- governments and organizations all have an important role in promoting health within communities Primary Health Care Across the Lifespan
Questions and Answers - expands to policy development, city planning, water treatment, green spaces and so much more
Primary Care - correct answer the delivery of community based clinical health care services
PHC - correct answer -princible-based, comprehensive approach
to health
- seeks to improve health of populations across the continuum of care, birth- death in all settings
- stresses population (macro), community (meso), and person-oriented (micro) strategies for achieving health
- acknowleges the broader conditions that impact health
Downstream - correct answer microscopic approach; looks at individual curative process; does not take into account the sociopolitical, environmental or economic impact
Upstream - correct answer macroscopic approach; big picture population focus; primary prevention focus; population health approach
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