PHC accord who - correct answer ✔✔an essential care made universally accessible to individuals and
families in the community by means acceptable to them through their full participation and at a cost that
the community and country can afford at every stage of development.
the First International Conference - correct answer ✔✔Primary Health Care (PHC) was declared during
Alma Ata, Russia on September 6-12, 1978 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The goal was "
Health for All by the Year 2000 ". - correct answer ✔✔Primary Health Care (PHC) was declared during
the First International Conference on Primary Health Care held in
Legal basis PHC - correct answer ✔✔Letter of Instruction 949 signed by President Marcos on October 19,
1979 and has an underlying theme of " Health in the Hands of the People by 2020 ."
PHC MISSION - correct answer ✔✔To strengthen the health care system by increasing opportunities and
supporting the conditions wherein people will manage their own health care
PHC concept - correct answer ✔✔Partnership and empowerment of the people towards the
development of Self -Reliance
Elements/ Components of PHC - correct answer ✔✔✓ Education for Health
✓ Locally endemic diseases control
✓ EPI
✓ Maternal & Child Health & Family Planning. ✓ Mental Health ✓ Essential Drugs ✓ Nutrition
✓ Treatment of CD and NCD
✓ Safe water/ Environmental sanitation
, KEY PRINCIPLES OF PHC - correct answer ✔✔✓Accessibility, Availability, Affordability & Acceptability of
health services ✓Social Mobilization ✓People are the center, object and subject of development ✓Self-
reliance ✓Recognition of interrelationship between the health and development ✓Decentralization
✓Community Participation
✓Partnership between the community and the health agencies in the provision of quality of life.
FOUR CORNERSTONES/ PILLARS IN PHC - correct answer ✔✔1. Community Participation
2. Inter- sectoral coordination
3. Appropriate Technology
4. Support mechanism made available
1. Grassroots/ Village or Barangay Health Workers (V/BHWs)- - correct answer ✔✔refers to trained
community health workers of health auxiliary volunteer or a traditional birth attendant or healer.
Intermediate level health workers - correct answer ✔✔general medicine practitioners or their assistants.
PHN, Rural Sanitary Inspectors and Midwives may compose these groups.
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔relates to activities directed at preventing a problem before it
occurs by altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible individuals. Examples: Quit
smoking, avoid/ limit alcohol intake, exercise regularly, complete immunization
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔refers to early detection and prompt intervention during the
period of early disease pathogenesis. Examples: annual PE, regular Pap's test for women, sputum
examination for TB.
Tertiary Prevention- - correct answer ✔✔targets populations that have experienced disease or injury and
focuses on limitation of disability and rehabilitation. Example: self- monitoring of blood glucose among
diabetics, physical therapy after CVA (stroke), undergoing speech therapy after laryngectomy.
Primary Level Facilities - correct answer ✔✔Health services offered to individuals with fair health & to
clients with diseases in early symptomatic stages. Include RHU, Community Hospitals, Health Centers,
Private Practitioners, Puericulture Center, Brgy. Health Stations.
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