Primary Health Care
What is Primary Health Care?
•It is the first level of care
•It is the first point of contact with health care
•It emphasizes health promotion
•It is illness prevention
•It is the Management of chronic disease
The desire to enable people to increase control over their well-being and thereby improving their health describes what aspect of health?
Health Promotion
A client who states that he is a chronic smoker is worried about the recent death of his brother from lung cancer. He would change his behaviour based on his intuition that he is at increase risk for lung cancer as explained in the :
Health Belief Model
A client who just lost her 3 months old baby would be experiencing what type of learning barrier?
Psychologica
For health to be improved there must be which secure fundamental condition and resources
•Peace
•Shelter
•Education
•Food
•Income
•A stable ecosystem
•Sustainable resources
It was proposed in the 1970s that persons in the village be trained and equipped with essential drugs and simple skills to promote health for the village people. These persons were referred to as?
Barefoot Doctors
Which principle identifies the potential benefits, harms and costs of an intervention and also improve health practices?
Evidence-Informed Practice
Explain the chronological steps of the change theory
Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
action
Maintenance
Termination
The nurse is asked to educate a group of adults who are newly diagnosed with hypertension on the importance of eating healthy, taking medication and exercising. If the participants fail to utilize the information or teaching how should the nurse respond?
Repeat the teaching session reinforcing the information
What is CCHP
Caribbean Charter for Health Promotion
World Health Organization (WHO) proposed 5 key elements to improve health for all, these include?
•universal coverage reforms
•service delivery reforms
•public policy reforms
•leadership reforms
•Improve stakeholders
The process of learning designed to improve health knowledge and development of life skills speaks to which aspect of health promotion?
Health Education
Miss Row was given anti-hypertensive medications to be taken she took 3 doses and decided to stop because she doesn’t know of anyone taking these medications. What stage of the change process is she experiencing?
Contemplation
What is lesson Planning?
It's a step-by-step guide that outlines the health educator objectives for what the learners (clients) will accomplish for the session.
The nurse is planning an educational session for a group of young adults, the nurse should include the potential health problems common in this age group. What should the nurse include in this teaching plan?
Road Accidents
Safe Sexual Practices
The Principles of Primary Health includes?
Community participation
Inter-sectorial Collaboration
Integration of health care programs
Equity
Self-reliance
What is the first step in designing a health education program?
Identify the goals and objectives that must be achieved
Group of young women attended a Women’s Health Fair and reviewed pens and bags with these words “Two is better than too many” According to the Health Belief Model this concept is called:
Cue to action
Which part of the SMART goal does the following statement objective represent?
At the end of the 15-minute health teach to the client will be able to list 2 types of complex carbohydrate.
Measurable
Feelings of personal vulnerability or risk for a specific health problem can be described as
Perceived susceptibility
Adequate Health and Social measures are the responsibility of a countries' government this can be achieved by offering what programs through primary health care
•Immunization
•Maternal & child health
•Essential Drugs
•Food & Nutrition
•Health education
•Illness & Injury
•Water and sanitation
•Vector & Reservoirs
Using various strategies to bring about changes- from developing individual skills to changing systems speak to which principle of health promotion?
Action across the continuum
A community health nurse is developing a lesson plan to educate members of the community about preventing mosquito infestation. Which of the following is the MOST important concept to teach for health promotion and maintenance?
Destroy breeding grounds of mosquitos
Learning need assessment should provide the following:
Impact- how the educational session can provide insight and impact on the audience.
Approaches- various educational approaches that can be used to impart knowledge
Awareness –of existing programs and the gap in knowledge to enable efficient use of resources.
What are the modifying actions in the Health Promotion Model?
•demographic
•biologic characteristics
•interpersonal influences
•situational influences
behavioural factors