(9) Primary health care (PHC)questions
with verified solutions
May 1977 - correct answer ✔✔World health assembly decided that the main health target of the
government and WHO is the attainment of a level of health that would permit them to lead a socially
and economically productive life by the year 2000.
September 6-12,1978 - correct answer ✔✔First international conference on PHC in Alma Ata, Russia. )
The Alma Ata Declaration stated that PHC was the key to attain the "health for all" goal
October 19, 1979 - correct answer ✔✔Letter of Instruction (LOI) 949, the legal basis of PHC was signed
by Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos, which adopted PHC as an approach towards the design, development and
implementation of programs focusing on health development at community level.
Rationale for Adopting Primary Health Care - correct answer ✔✔Magnitude of Health Problems
Inadequate and unequal distribution of health resources Increasing cost of medical care
Isolation of health care activities from other development activities
Definition of Primary Health Care - correct answer ✔✔-essential health care made universally accessible
to individual and families in the community
- a practical approach to making health benefits within the reach of all people
- an approach to health development, which is carried out through a set of activities whose ultimate aim
is the continuous improvement and maintenance of health status.
Goal of primary health care - correct answer ✔✔- HEALTH FOR ALL FILIPINOS by the year 2000 and the
health in the hands of the people by the year 2020
-an improved state of health and quality of life for all people attained through self reliance
Key Strategy to Achieve the Goal: - correct answer ✔✔1. Partnership with and empowerment of the
people- permeate as the core strategy in the effective provision of essential health services that are
community based, accessible, acceptable, and sustainable at a cost which the community and the
government can afford.
, Objectives of primary health care: - correct answer ✔✔Improvement in the level of health care of the
community
Favorable population growth structure Reduction in the prevalence of preventable, communicable and
other disease.
Reduction in morbidity and mortality rates especially among infants and children.
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 of the
community.
Mision - correct answer ✔✔to strengthen the health care system by increasing opportunities and
supporting the conditions wherein people will manage their own health care
Two levels of primary health care workers are: - correct answer ✔✔1. barangay health workers- trained
community health workers or health auxiliary volunteers or traditional birth attendants or healers.
2. Intermediate level health workers- includes the PHN , Rural sanitary inspector and midwives.
Principles of Primary Health care are: - correct answer ✔✔1. 4A's -Accessibility, availability, affordability
and acceptability, appropriateness of health services
2. community participation
3. people are the center, object and subject of development
4. self- reliance
5. partnership between the community and the health agencies in the provision of quality of life
6. Recognition of interrelationship between the health and development
7. social mobilization
8. Decentralization
1. 4 A's (Accessibility, Availability, Affordability & Acceptability, Appropriateness of Health Services.) -
correct answer ✔✔The health services should be present where the supposed recipients are. They
with verified solutions
May 1977 - correct answer ✔✔World health assembly decided that the main health target of the
government and WHO is the attainment of a level of health that would permit them to lead a socially
and economically productive life by the year 2000.
September 6-12,1978 - correct answer ✔✔First international conference on PHC in Alma Ata, Russia. )
The Alma Ata Declaration stated that PHC was the key to attain the "health for all" goal
October 19, 1979 - correct answer ✔✔Letter of Instruction (LOI) 949, the legal basis of PHC was signed
by Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos, which adopted PHC as an approach towards the design, development and
implementation of programs focusing on health development at community level.
Rationale for Adopting Primary Health Care - correct answer ✔✔Magnitude of Health Problems
Inadequate and unequal distribution of health resources Increasing cost of medical care
Isolation of health care activities from other development activities
Definition of Primary Health Care - correct answer ✔✔-essential health care made universally accessible
to individual and families in the community
- a practical approach to making health benefits within the reach of all people
- an approach to health development, which is carried out through a set of activities whose ultimate aim
is the continuous improvement and maintenance of health status.
Goal of primary health care - correct answer ✔✔- HEALTH FOR ALL FILIPINOS by the year 2000 and the
health in the hands of the people by the year 2020
-an improved state of health and quality of life for all people attained through self reliance
Key Strategy to Achieve the Goal: - correct answer ✔✔1. Partnership with and empowerment of the
people- permeate as the core strategy in the effective provision of essential health services that are
community based, accessible, acceptable, and sustainable at a cost which the community and the
government can afford.
, Objectives of primary health care: - correct answer ✔✔Improvement in the level of health care of the
community
Favorable population growth structure Reduction in the prevalence of preventable, communicable and
other disease.
Reduction in morbidity and mortality rates especially among infants and children.
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 of the
community.
Mision - correct answer ✔✔to strengthen the health care system by increasing opportunities and
supporting the conditions wherein people will manage their own health care
Two levels of primary health care workers are: - correct answer ✔✔1. barangay health workers- trained
community health workers or health auxiliary volunteers or traditional birth attendants or healers.
2. Intermediate level health workers- includes the PHN , Rural sanitary inspector and midwives.
Principles of Primary Health care are: - correct answer ✔✔1. 4A's -Accessibility, availability, affordability
and acceptability, appropriateness of health services
2. community participation
3. people are the center, object and subject of development
4. self- reliance
5. partnership between the community and the health agencies in the provision of quality of life
6. Recognition of interrelationship between the health and development
7. social mobilization
8. Decentralization
1. 4 A's (Accessibility, Availability, Affordability & Acceptability, Appropriateness of Health Services.) -
correct answer ✔✔The health services should be present where the supposed recipients are. They
