Primary Health Care Exam with
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Name the Principles of Primary Healthcare - ✔✔- Accessible to
individuals and families
- Based on community needs and their full participation
- Primary health care is essential health care.
- Scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods &
technology.
- Be provided close to where people work and live.
- Affordable for both the community and country.
- Is the first element of a continuing care process
What is the Declaration of Alma Ata - ✔✔"Primary health care is
essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially
acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to
individuals and families in the community through their full participation and
at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every
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stage of their development in the spirit of self reliance and self
determination."
What is Primary Healthcare About - ✔✔It is about looking at the
determinants of health of a population
A PCH approach to falls might include:
- An education program aimed at informing older people
about how to reduce their risks in the home
- Brochure educating and providing strategies
- A community exercise program to target balance and
strength in this group
Fundamental principles of Australian healthcare policies are based upon? -
✔✔Self-determinism: The capacity of individuals, groups and
communities to make independent decisions
Cultural Competency: Implies understanding and sensitivity of different
cultural beliefs and practices
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A lifespan approach: to healthcare (from conception through to death and
bereavement).
Explain the difference between Primary Care and Primary Nursing -
✔✔Primary Care
Is a first level of care that includes initial medical care that is provided to a
client.
Has an illness focus /disease management
Services are not necessarily accessible, affordable, acceptable or available
to a client.
Primary Nursing
A client is managed by a single nurse.
The nurse cares for the client personally
Is responsible for scheduling all procedures and activities
Does not guarantee accessible, affordable, acceptable and available care
Selective vs. Comprehensive Healthcare - ✔✔Selective - Health
achieved through medical interventions., Client is a passive recipient.
Service provision is not holistic, equitable or sustainable.
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Comprehensive - Holistic understanding and implementation of healthcare.
Wellbeing that is equitable, empowering and sustainable.
What is the difference between Equality and Equity - ✔✔Equality - Aims
to ensure that everyone gets the same things in order to enjoy full, healthy
lives.
Equity - Involves trying to understand and give people what they need to
enjoy full, healthy lives.
What is Primary Prevention - ✔✔- Promotes health
- Prevents illness/disease
Includes:
Health Promotion
Health Education, sex education
Immunisation., flu vaccines etc.
What is Secondary Prevention - ✔✔Prevent progression to disease
through early detection