Transcript Purpose of Health Services

HEALTH
A state of complete
physical, mental and social
well being and not merely
the absence of disease or
infirmity and ability to lead a
socially and economically
productive life.
Purpose of Health Services
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TO IMPROVE HEALTH STATUS OF THE
POPULATION.
REDUCTION OF MORTALITY & MORBIDITY
INCREASE IN EXPECTATION OF LIFE
DECREASE IN POPULATION GROWTH
IMPROVEMENT IN NUTRITIONAL STATUS
PROVISION OF BASIC SANITATION
MANPOWER REQUIREMENT & RESOURCES
DEVELOPMENT.
OTHER SECTORS, EDUCATION,
AGRICULTURE, POVERTY REDUCTION
Themes of Health Services
Entire population
 Full range of services
 Effective Primary Health Care
 Appropriate referral system
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HEALTH SYSTEM
Health system is intended to deliver
health care services. Health care
system refers to institutions, people,
and resources involved in delivering
health care to individuals whose
primary purpose is to improve health.
H.S are designed to meet H. needs of
the population.
Levels of Health Care
Primary Care level
Secondary Care Level
Tertiary Care Level
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
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Public Health Sector
(a) PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTERS
(b) HOSPITALS
(c ) HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEMES
(d) OTHER AGENCIES
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Private Health Sector
(a) PRIVATE HOSPITALS & DISPENS
(b) GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND CLINICS
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INDIGENOUS SYSTEM OF MEDICINE
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VOLUNTARY HEALTH AGENCIES
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NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMMES
Characteristics of Health Care
Appropriateness
 2. Comprehensiveness
 3. Adequacy
4. Availability
 5. Accessibility
6.Affordability
 7. Feasibility
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Components of Health system
 Concepts:
Health, disease
 Ideas:
Equity, coverage,
effectiveness, efficiency,
impact
 Objectives: hospitals, health centers,
health programmes
 Persons:
providers, consumers
HEALTH FOR ALL BY YEAR 2000 AD (HFA)
1977 – WORD HEALHT ASSEMBLY
- Attainment by all the people of the world
by the year 2000 AD of a level of health that
will permit them to lead a socially and
economically productive life.
1978 – International Conference – PHC.
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
“Primary Health care is essential health
care based on 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 that a
country and community can afford to
maintain in every stage of development
in the spirit of self-reliance and selfreliance and self-determination”.
Principles of Primary
Health Care
Equitable Distribution
Community Participation
Intersectoral coordination
Appropriate technology
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
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Education concerning prevailing health problems and
the methods of controlling & preventing them.
Promotion of food supply & proper nutrition.
Adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation.
Maternal & child health care including family planning.
Immunization against major infectious diseases.
Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases.
Appropriate treatment of common diseases &injuries.
Provision of essential drugs.
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS(MDGS)
 Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger
 Improve Maternal Health & reduce child
Mortality
 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
 Achieve Universal Primary Education
 Ensure environmental sustainability
 Develop a global partnership for development
District Health System
A well functioning health
district is one that contributes
to sustained health status
improvement through the
provision of equitable, efficient,
technically good quality,
acceptably appropriate and
affordable health care.
Strengthening Health Care System
 Strengthening
Distt. health system
 Strengthening existing health facilities
 Rationalizing human resources
 Greater responsibility of private sector
 Empowering community to take role in
health system
 Decentralization of health system
Sustainable health system
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Making quality care
Preventing & controlling disease & protecting
health
Promoting legislation & regulation in support of
health system
Developing health information system &
ensuring active surveillance
Fostering the use and innovation in health –
related science & technology
Building & maintaining human resources for
health
Securing adequate & sustainable financing
PRESENTED BY
 MR.
IJAZ HAIDER SANGI
P.A/STENOGRAPHER
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNINTY MEDICINE
SHEIKH ZAYED MEDICAL COLLEGE
RAHIM YAR KHAN