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Primary Health Care - What is PHC and History of PHC fully solved
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Primary Health Care - What is PHC andHistory of PHC fully solved
Primary Health Care definition - correct answer ✔✔Essential health care based on practical, scientifically
sound and socially acceptable methods and technology universally accessible to individuals and families
in the community through their participation and at a cost that the community and the country can
afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-
determination....."
key points of def:
essential health care
practical, scientific, socially acceptable methods
universally accessible tech
to all families/individuals/communities
participation of individuals/families/communities
healthcare affordable for country to maintain
promotes self-reliance
3 main factors of PHC - correct answer ✔✔empowered people and communities;
multi-sectoral policy and action;
primary care and essential public health functions as the core of integrated health services
what falls under PHC - correct answer ✔✔family care, community healthcare, outpatient healthcare,
outreach services, basic inpatient healthcare (ie. skilled childbirth care)
specialist services fall under referral care... not PHC
referral care contributes logistics for equipment and drugs as well as supervision of PHC... also gets
referrals :/. THIS IS INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION
, Alma-Ata Declaration, 1978 - correct answer ✔✔Kazakstan - part of the Soviet Union
to promote PHC globally
laying out the principles of primary health care - HISTORY!
(expressed philosophy of thinking about healthcare)
- values of social justice; comm. participation; people at centre of healthcare; respond to changing world;
respond to increasing expectations
complete the goals by 2000
- universal access to healthcare for all
- social and economic sectors need to take part to achieve goals
- health should be a community effort; beyond individual
Three key elements permeating the declaration. Negative role of disease oriented technology. i.e. highly
specialised equipment which was irrelevant to the needs of the poor communities.
build Urban hospitals in developing countries.
Need to concentrate on human resource distribution to rural areas.
Training of lay health personnel as opposed to highly specialised staff involved in top down service
delivery. PHC at the centre with intersectorial collaboration. Health and development links had political
implications
failed epically
5 Principles of Primary Health Care - correct answer ✔✔1. Access equity - access based on need
2. Community AND Individual participation/empowerment - self-reliance
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