Primary Prevention

Primary Prevention

* Is an essential care made accessible to the community through acceptable means

* It address areas such as adequate and proper nutrition, weight control and exercise and stress reduction

* Health promotion activities emphasize the important role clients play in maintaining their own health

Philippines

* Elements and Components

1. Environmental sanitation

2. Control of Communicable Diseases

3. Immunization

4. Health Education

5. Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning

6. Adequate Food and Proper Nutrition

7. Provision of Medical Care and Emergency Treatment

8. Treatment of Locally Endemic Diseases

9. Provision of Essential Drugs

* Strategies

1. Reorientation and reorganization of national health care system with the establishment of functional support mechanism.

2. Effective preparation and enabling process for health action at all levels.

3. Mobilization of the people to know their communities and identifying their basic health needs.

4. Development and utilization of appropriate technology focusing on local indigenous resources available in and acceptable to the community.

5. Organization of communities arising from their expressed needs which they have decided to address.

6. Increase opportunities for community participation in local level planning, management, monitoring and evaluation within the context of regional and national objectives.

7. Development of intra-sectoral linkages with other government and private agencies.

8. Emphasizing partnership so that the health workers and the community leaders/members view each other as partners.

* Types of Workers

* Physician

* Nurses

* Midwives

* Traditional healers

* Community health workers

* Levels of Workers

* Village or Barangay health workers.

* Intermediate level health workers.

Canada

Primary health care services

* General practitioners...