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the 34th World Health Assembly when
1981
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The Alma Ata Declaration stated that PHC was the key to attain the “health for all” goal.
September 6-12, 1978, First International Conference on PHC in Alma Ata, Russia (USSR).
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which adopted PHC as an approach towards the design, development and implementation of programs focusing on health development at community level.
October 19, 1979, Letter of instruction 949, the legal basis of PHC was signed by Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos
Dates
Eight goals set by the 189 UN members states, for improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. It is committed to combating disease, hunger, poverty, illiteracy, discrimination against women and environmental degradation. It mainly targeted developing or least developed or poor countries.
September 2000, Millennium Development Goals, was signed (2000-2015)
Dates
17 goals, an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognized that ending poverty and other deprivation must go hand-in hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and spur economic growth all while tracking climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests.
2015, Sustainable Development Goals was established (2015-2030)
Objectives of Primary Health Care
1. Improvement in the level of health care of the community.
2. Favorable population growth structure.
3. Reduction in the prevalence of preventable, communicable, and other disease.
4. Reduction in morbidity and mortality rates especially among infants and children.
5. Extension of essential health services with priority given to the underserved sectors.
6. Improvement in Basic Sanitation
7. Development of the capability of the community aimed at self-reliance.
8. Maximizing the contribution of the other sectors for the social and economic development of the community.
To increase the programs and services that affect the healthy growth and development of children and youth.
2. Favorable population growth structure.
- To support and encourage the implementation of provincial public health policies and direction.
- To support and advocate for healthy public policy within all sectors and levels of government.
3. Reduction in the prevalence of preventable, communicable, and other disease.
- To develop community satisfaction with the primary health care system.
- To provide reasonable and timely access to primary health care services
Improvement in the level of health care of the community.
- To boost participation of the community with government and community and community sectors to improve the health of their community.
- To apply the standards of accountability in professional practice.
- To establish, within available resources, primary health care teams and networks.
8. Maximizing the contribution of the other sectors for the social and economic development of the community.
To support the provision of comprehensive, integrated, and evidence-based primary health care services.
7. Development of the capability of the community aimed at self-reliance.
means that health is to be brought within the reach of everyone in a given community. It is an improved state of health and quality of life for all people attained through self-reliance. It implies the removal of obstacles to health
Health for all
Health for all means that health is to be brought within the reach of everyone in a given community. It is an improved state of health and quality of life for all people attained through self-reliance. It implies the removal of obstacles to health – that is to say the elimination of:
- Malnutrition
- Ignorance
- Disease
- Contaminated water supply
- Unhygienic housing, etc
as the core strategy in the effective provision of essential health services that are community based, accessible, acceptable, and sustainable, at a cost, which community and the government can afford.
Permeate
Main Focus:
Prevention of Disease and Socio-economic development.
RATIONALE AND GOAL BEHIND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
- Partnership with the community
- Equitable distribution of health resources
- Organized and appropriate health system infrastructure
- Prevention of disease and promotion of health as focus
- Linked multi-sectorally
- Intersectoral – LGU, Education, Agriculture, Public Works, population control, social welfare.
- Intrasectoral – Personnel between and within different levels (primary, secondary, and tertiary of health care services)
- Emphasis on appropriate technology.
These are reinforcement for the delivery of safe health care.
4 main Pillars of PHC
- Refers to delivering health care services in an integrated way.
- Plays a vital role in performing different functions in attaining health services.
- Ensures different sectors to collaborate and function interdependently to meet the health care needs of the people.
Inter-sectoral Coordination
- A process in which community people are engaged and participated in making decisions about their own health.
- it involves participation of the community people from identifying the health needs of the community, planning, organizing, decision-making and implementation of health programs.
Community pariticipation
- an important strategy for improving the availability and accessibility of healthcare services.
- ” technology that is scientifically sound, adaptable to local needs and acceptable to those who apply it and to whom it is applied and that can be maintained by people themselves in keeping with the principle of selfreliance with the resources the community and country can afford.’’
- Refers to using cheaper, scientifically valid and acceptable equipment and techniques.
Appropriate Technology
