Topic 2

• Primary Care is the level of care that is the first point of contact for essential health services such as diagnose and treatment of common health conditions within an area of expertise.

  Primary Care Specialties:

  ▶ OBGYN

  ▶ Geriatrician

  ▶ Pediatrician

  
• Secondary Care is the level of care that is specialized and is the first referral level. Its setting is in the hospital.

  Specialists:

  ▶ Cardiologists

  ▶ Oncologists

  ▶ Psychiatrists

  ▶ Obstetricians

  ▶ Dermatologists

  ▶ Pediatricians

  ▶ Ophtalmologists

  etc.
• Tertiary Care is the level of care reserved for complex and advanced equipment, treatment or procedures
• Hospital is an organized structure which pools together/assembles all
• 6 : minimum number of in patient beds
• Classification of Hospital (Ownership)

  ▶ Public : made by the government and free to all

  ▶ Private : owned, established, and operated with funds
• Classification of Hospitals (Scope of Services)

  ▶ General : provides services for all kinds of illnesses, diseases, injuries or deformities

  ▶ Specialty : specializes in a particular disease or condition or in one type of patient

  ▶ Rehabilitation and Chronic Diseases : restorative and adjustive services

  ▶ Psychiatric : called asylums before
• Classification of Hospital (Functional Capacity)

  ▶ General Hospital

  ▶ Specialty Hospital

  ▶ Trauma Capability Hospital
• Classification of Hospital (Functional Capacity)

  ▶ Trauma Capability Hospital : covers patients who figured in vehicular accidents, gunshot wounds, falls, and other bodily injuries severe enough to cause disability or death
• Classification of Hospital is according to:

  ▶ Ownership

  ▶ Scope of Services

  ▶ Functional Capacity
• Fill the missing information

  A) Pharmacy

  B) Respiratory Unit

  C) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

  D) Blood Bank

  E) Residency