Primary Health Care

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Primary Health Care

The ultimate goal of primary health care is better health for all. WHO has identified five key elements to achieving that goal:
reducing exclusion and social disparities in health (universal coverage reforms); organizing health services around people's needs and expectations (service delivery reforms); integrating health into all sectors (public policy reforms); pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue (leadership reforms); and increasing stakeholder participation.

Strategies
1. Reorientation

and reorganization of the national health care system.

2. Effective preparation and enabling process for health action levels. 3. Mobilization of the people to know their communities and identifying their basic health needs. 4. Development of the utilization of appropriate technology focusing on local indigenous resources available in and acceptable to the community. 5. Organization of communities arising from the expresses needs.

6.increase opportunities for community participation in local level planning, management, monitoring and evaluation within the context of regional and national objects. 7. Development of intra-sectoral linkages with other government and private agencies. 8. Emphasizing partnership so that the health workers ang the community leaders/members view each other as partners rather than merely providers and reciever of health care respectively

Levels of CARE

Primary Level of Care


Devolved to cities and municipalities Usually the first contact between the community members and other levels of health facility. Center physicians, public health nurse, rural health midwives, brgy. Health workers, traditional healers.

Secondary Level of Care


Given by physicians with basic health training. Usually given in health facilities either private owned or government operated. Infirmaries, municipal, district hospital, outpatient departments.

Tertiary Level of Care


Rendered by specialists in health facilities. Referral system for the secondary care facilities. Provided complicated cases and intensive care. Medical Centers, regional and provincial hospitals and specialized hospitals.

Health Care Delivery System

THE PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM


HEALTH CARE SYSTEM an organized plan of health services (Miller-Keane, 1987) HEALTH CARE DELIVERY rendering health care services to the people (WilliamsTungpalan, 1981). HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM (Williams-Tungpalan, 1981) the network of health facilities and personnel which carries out the task of rendering health care to the people. PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is a complex set of organizations interacting to provide an array of health services (Dizon, 1977).

Main goals of the Family Based Mental Health program:


Reduce out-of-home placement of children Strengthen and maintain family unit Increase life skills and coping capacities of each family member Re-unify families previously separated due to the mental illness of their child

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