Community Health Flashcards

Flashcards on Community Health

Community Health (WHO Definition)

The environmental, social, and economic resources to sustain emotional and physical well-being among people in ways that advance their aspirations and satisfy their needs in their unique environment.

Primary Health Care

Programs aim to reduce risk factors and increase health promotion and prevention.

Secondary Health Care

Also called hospital care, acute care is administered in a hospital setting.

Tertiary Health Care

Highly specialized care usually involving disease or disability management.

Community Health Elements

Identifying top public health concerns, developing intervention plans, educating residents, providing essential services, helping residents gain access to resources, reducing the need for expensive emergency care, advocating for improved care, and working with other community agencies.

Social Determinants of Health

Factors such as income, education, employment, food security, housing, early childhood development, social inclusion, and access to health services that influence health equity.

Philippine Health Agenda (PHA)

The national health agenda for the country aiming to uphold every Filipino's right to health and fulfill the global call for Universal Health Coverage.

Financial Protection (PHA Goal)

Ensuring Filipinos, especially the poor, are protected from the high costs of healthcare.

Better Health Outcomes (PHA Goal)

Filipinos attain the best possible health outcomes with no disparity.

Responsiveness (PHA Goal)

Filipinos feel respected, valued, and empowered in their interactions with the health system.

Health Disparities in Women’s Health

The gap between the quality of and access to healthcare by women across groups continue to widen and produce health outcomes that go against the poorest of the poor populations.

Health Disparities across Regions

Individuals who live in prosperous regions and communities generally live longer and experience better health outcomes than those in geographically isolated, disadvantaged and poorly developed parts of the country.

Impoverishing Costs of Health Care

Around 1.5 million becomes impoverished every year due to high cost health care. Healthcare expenditures of 4 thousand per month or higher is already catastrophic for single income families.

Primary Health Care (PHC)

A health and social development approach and philosophy which acts as the overarching approach in health system transformation anchored on social values. Foundation where health systems should be built on.

Universal Access to Care

Interventions and strategies must be appropriate, accessible, acceptable, available, effective, affordable, efficient and empowering.

Community Participation

People have the right and duty to participate in all the stages of health development.

Intersectoral Approaches to health

Health is a multi-factorial, sectors outside of the health sector should be involved in working towards better health outcomes.

Stakeholder

An individual or group that makes a difference, or that can affect or be affected by the achievement of the organization’s objectives.

Intersectoral Collaboration

Is the sum of “collective actions involving more than one group with different roles but one purpose.

Dialogue

Conversation aimed at resolution of differences that requires listening to each other’s views and finding common ground.