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  • ALMA-ATA DECLARATION - fundamental human right that is the attainment of the highest possible level of health
  • PRIMARY HEALTH CARE - states that primary health care is essential health care based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods.
  • Health Care system - refers to an organized plan of health services
  • Health care delivery - It is the rendering of health care services to the people
  • Health care delivery system - the network of health facilities and personnel which carries out the task of rendering health care to the people
  • Philippine Health Care system - a complex set of organizations interacting to provide an array of health services to the Philippines.
  • ENUMERATE: PRIMARY HEALTHCARE'S basic essential elements and objectives.
    1. Health Care System
    2. Health Care Delivery
    3. Health Care Delivery System
    4. Philippine Health Care system
  • KEY ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE THE GOALL
    1. Universal coverage to reduce exclusion and social disparities in health
    2. . Service delivery organized around people's needs and expectations
    3. Public policy that integrates health into all sectors
    4. Leadership that enhances collaborative models of policy dialouge
    5. Increased stake holder participation
  • ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
    1. EDUCATION CONCERNING PREVAILING HEALTH PROBLEMS
    2. Locally endemic disease prevention
    3. Expanded program of immunization
    4. Maternal and child healthcare including family planning
    5. Essential drug arrangements
    6. adequate supply of basic nutrition
    7. Treatment of communicable and non-communicable disease and promotion of mental health
    8. Safe water and sanitation
  • Other elements of primary health care
    1. Expended optionof immunizations
    2. reproductive health needs
    3. Provision of essential technologies for health
    4. Health promotion
    5. Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
    6. Food safety and provision of selected food supplements
  • A primary system based on primary health care will:
    1. Build on the alma-ata principles of equity, universal access, community participation, and intersectoral approaches
    2. Take account of broader population health issues
    3. Create the conditions of broader population health issues
    4. Organize integrated and seamless care
    5. Continously evaluate and strive to improve performance
  • Principles of primary health care
    • Improvement in the level of health care of the community
    • Favorable population growth structure
    • Reduction in the prevalence of preventable, communicable, and other diseases
    • Reduction in morbidity and mortality rates
    • Extension of essential health services with priority given to the underserved sectors
    • Improvement in basic sanitation
    • Development of the capability of the community aimed at self-reliance
    • Maximizing the contribution of the other sectors for the social and economic development
    • Equitable distribution of health care
    • Community participation
    • Multi-Sectional approach
    • Use of appropriate technology
  • Management of Primary health care
    1. Planning
    2. Organizing
    3. Staffing
    4. Controlling
    5. Directing
  • Planning - Managers usually required to set direction and determine what needs to be accomplished.
  • Organizing - refers to the management function on designing the organization or the specific division, unit or service for which the manager is responsible.
  • Staffing - This function refers to acquiring and retaining human resources. It also refers to developing and maintaining the workforce through various strategies and tactics
  • Controlling - this function refers to monitoring staff activities and performance and taking the appropriate action to increase performance.
  • Directing - its focus is to initiate action in the organization through effective leadership and motivation of, and communication with other subordinates
  • Authority - is the manager's formal and legitimate right to make decisions, issue orders, and allocate resources to achieve organizationally desired outcomes
  • Responsibility - an employees duty to perform assigned task or activities
  • Accountability - means that those with authority and responsibility must report and justify task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command.
  • Types of authority
    Line authority
    Functional Authority
    Staff authority
  • Line authority - Managers have the formal power to direct and control immediate subordinates.
  • Superior - issues order and responsible for the result
  • Functional authority - where the managers have the formal power over specific subset
  • Staff authority - granted to staff specialist in their areas of expertise.
  • Centralization - the location of decision-making authority near top organizational levels
  • Decentralization - the location of decision making-authority near lower organizational levels
  • Formalization - the written documentation to responsible positions identified in a management plan
  • Staffing - refers to the assignment of individuals to responsible positions indentified in a management plan.
  • The primary function of department of health - is the promotion, protection, preservation, or restoration of health of the poeple through the provision and delivery
  • Mission of DOH, in partnership wth the people:
    1. To making the service available
    2. by arousing community awareness
    3. by mobilizing resources
    4. by promoting the means to better health
  • Levels of Health Care facilities
    Primary level of health care Facilities
    Secondary level of health care facilities
    Tertiary level of health care facilities
  • Primary level of health care facilities - this includes rural health units, their sub-centers, chest clinics, malaria eradication units, schistosomiasis control units operated by the DOH
  • Secondary level of health care facilities- these are smaller, non-departamentalized hospitals, including emergency and regional hospitals in which services to patients with symptomatic stages of the disease
  • Tertiary level of health care facilities - These are medical ccenters that offer highly technological and sophisticated services
  • Factors on the various categories of Health workers among countries and communities
    1. Available health manpower
    2. local health needs and problems
    3. Political and financial feasibility
  • Village or Grassroot health workers - they are the first contacts of the community and initial links of health care
  • Intermediate level Health worker - These workers represent the first source of professional health care
  • First line hospital personnel - They provide backup health services for cases that require hospitalization