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Unit 1 PPT Final

The document provides an overview of primary health care and the health care delivery system in the Philippines. It describes the health care system as having both public and private sectors. The public sector is financed through taxes and delivers services through government facilities. The private sector consists of for-profit and non-profit providers paid through user fees. It also outlines the objectives, levels (primary, secondary, tertiary), and types (primary care, secondary care, preventive care, tertiary care) of health care services in the Philippines.

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Unit 1 PPT Final

The document provides an overview of primary health care and the health care delivery system in the Philippines. It describes the health care system as having both public and private sectors. The public sector is financed through taxes and delivers services through government facilities. The private sector consists of for-profit and non-profit providers paid through user fees. It also outlines the objectives, levels (primary, secondary, tertiary), and types (primary care, secondary care, preventive care, tertiary care) of health care services in the Philippines.

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Unit 1: Introduction to Primary Health Care

(PHC) and Health Care Delivery System

Basic Principles of Primary Health Care


HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
• also sometimes referred to as a health system, defined as the method by which healthcare is financed,
organized, and
delivered to a population.
• is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the
health needs of target
populations.
• It includes issues of access (for whom and to which services), expenditures, and resources
(healthcare workers and facilities).
• The goal of a healthcare system is to enhance the health of the population in the most effective
manner possible in light of a society's available resources and competing needs
Overview of the health system

The Philippine health system is characterized as a dual health system composed of the
public sector and the private sector. The public sector is largely financed through a tax-
based budgeting system, where health services are delivered by government facilities run
by the National and local governments. The private sector, consisting of for-profit and
non-profit health-care providers, is largely market-oriented where health care is generally
paid for through user fees at the point of service.
OBJECTIVES OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
a) To improve health status of population
b) To reduce the total economic burden of health care
c) To raise and pool the resources accessible to deliver health care services
d) To promote maternal and child health, family planning, adolescent health
e) To promote quality of life and life expectancy
f) To promote health education and health services
g) To prevent, control and manage common diseases and injuries Eg: ARI, diarrhea, malnutrition etc.
h) To provide immunization services
I ) To prevent and control locally endemic diseases Eg: dengue fever, filariasis etc
j) It supports the establishment of community based, community controlled health care system
k) It supports health care as a basic human right for all people
l) It supports public and private funding
m) It endorses to provide special health maintenance to old age
n) It supports the efforts to eliminate unnecessary health care expenditures and voluntary efforts to
limit increase in health costs
o) It supports the establishment of a national health care budget
p) It refers to the public or private rules, regulations, laws or guidelines that relate to the pursuit of
health and the delivery of health services.
Health System is subdivided into 3 levels of referral

1. PRIMARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES


-the barangay health stations and rural health units
 Schistosomiasis control units operated by the DOH
 Puericulturecenters operated by League of Puericulture Centers
 Tuberculosis clinics and hospitals of the PhilippineTuberculosis Society; private clinics,
 Clinics operated by the Philippine Medical Association;
 Clinics operated by large industrial firms for their employees; community hospitals and health centers
operated by the Philippine Medicare Care Commission
2. SECONDARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES (district/provincial hospitals)
- are the smaller, non-departmentalized hospitals including emergency and regional hospitals
• Services offered to patients with symptomatic stages of disease, which require moderately specialized
knowledge and
technical resources for adequate treatment.

3. TERTIARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES


• the highly technological and sophisticated services offered by medical centers and large hospitals. These are
the specialized national hospitals.• Services rendered at this level are for clients afflicted with diseases which
seriously threaten their health and which require highly technical and specialized knowledge, facilities and
personnel to treat effectively
Types of health care Service
1. Primary care (Primary health care)
-is the day-to-day healthcare available in every local area and the first place people go when they need health
advice or treatment.

It’s the first stop for symptoms that are new or for concerns about physical or mental health.Primary care
includes:
• GPs (general practitioners) – the family or local doctor
• chemists (pharmacies)
• community and practice nurses
• community midwives and health visitors
• family planning or sexual health clinics
• out of hours GP services
• dentists
• opticians
• hearing care providers
2. Secondary care
• Simply means being taken care of by someone who has particular expertise in whatever problem a patient
is having.
• Includes treatment for illness, injury or other health problem in hospital or in an outpatients’ clinic. It also
includes tests
• and care for serious conditions.
• medical care provided by a specialist or facility upon referral by a primary care physician

Examples:
 cardiologists focus on the heart and its pumping system.
 Endocrinologists focus on hormone systems and some specialize in diseases like diabetes or thyroid disease.
 Oncologists have a specialty in treating cancers and many focus on a specific type of cancer.
3. Preventive care
-is the care you receive to prevent illnesses or diseases. It also includes counseling to prevent health problems. Providing
these services at no cost is based on the idea that getting preventive care, such as screenings and immunizations, can
help you and your family stay healthy. Preventive care may also help reduce your health care costs down the road if you
catch a problem early, or if an immunization keeps you from getting a serious illness.

4. Tertiary care
o highly specialized medical care usually over an extended period of time that involves advanced and complex
procedures and treatments performed by medical specialists in state-of the-art facilities

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