Health Care Workforce

 Physicians/doctors. All graduates of any faculty or school of medicine, actually

working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, administration,
research, laboratory, etc.).

 Midwives. All persons who have completed a programme of midwifery education

and have acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and/or legally
licensed to practise midwifery, and are actually working in the country. The
person may or may not have prior nursing education.

 Nurses. All persons who have completed a programme of basic nursing

education and are qualified and registered or authorized to provide responsible
and competent service for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, the care
of the sick, and rehabilitation, and are actually working in the country.
 Pharmacists. All graduates of any faculty or school of pharmacy, actually
working in the country in pharmacies, hospitals, laboratories, industry, etc.
  Dentists. All graduates of any faculty or school of dentistry, odontology or
stomatology, actually working in the country in any dental field.
 Radiologic technologist. A persons involve in the used or specialized
electromagnetic energies for treatment and diagnosis. They are known as the eye
of medicine who helps physician in aid of the providing images.
 Other health-care providers (including community health workers). All
workers who respond to the national definition of health-care providers and are
neither physicians/doctors, midwives, nurses, pharmacists, or dentists.

Special terms related to health care

·       Inpatient. A person who is formally admitted to a health-care facility and who is

discharged after one or more days.

·       Outpatient. A person who goes to a health-care facility for a consultation, and who
leaves the facility within three hours of the start of consultation. An outpatient is not
formally admitted to the facility.

·       Ambulatory care. All types of health services provided to patients who are not
confined to an institutional bed as inpatients during the time services are rendered.
Ambulatory care delivered in institutions that also deliver inpatient care is usually called
“outpatient care”. Ambulatory care services are provided in many settings ranging from
physicians’ offices to freestanding ambulatory surgical facilities or cardiac
catheterization centres. In some applications, the term does not include emergency
services provided in tertiary hospitals.

·       Day care. Medical and paramedical services delivered to patients who are formally
admitted for diagnosis, treatment or other types of health care with the intention of
discharging the patient the same day.

·       Long-term care. Long-term care encompasses a broad range of help with daily

activities that chronically disabled individuals need for a prolonged period of time.
Long-term care is primarily concerned with maintaining or improving the ability of
elderly people with disabilities to function as independently as possible for as long as
possible; it also encompasses social and environmental needs and is therefore broader
than the medical model that dominates acute care; it is primarily low-tech, although it
has become more complicated as elderly persons with complex medical needs are
discharged to, or remain in, traditional long-term care settings, including their own
homes; services and housing are both essential to the development of long-term care
policy and systems. Nursing homes, visiting nurses, home intravenous and other services
provided to chronically ill or disabled persons.

·       Social care. Services related to long-term inpatient care plus community care

services, such as day care centres and social services for the chronically ill, the elderly
and other groups with special needs such as the mentally ill, mentally handicapped, and
the physically handicapped. The borderline between health care and social care varies
from country to country, especially regarding social services which involve a significant,
but not dominant, health-care component such as, for example, long-term care for
dependent older people.

·       Before answering the self-reflection activity watch the video on Primary

health care with this link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvljECmG00g  and
the Levels of the primary health care with this
link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjG0KyeRORw .  And a link on the Public
health with this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_eWESXTnic.

Discussions / Teachers insight:

 Health care environment plays important role in the total contributions on the improvement of
the health of the individual, thus this should be maintained. Maintaining it made possible by
understanding its different environmental factors and its classification of delivery. And it is
closely related to hospital settings. Thus health care delivery system is obviously different from
a different region, places, and especially country. 

Health care delivery system in the Philippines there are several health care delivery in the
country that offer same as presented in the first part of the topic but it can be a different term.
Not like other countries the home care, nursing homes, and others are common, in the
Philippines what is common is purely extensive delivery and it was been incorporated in-
hospital delivery system. You cannot see or if there is few in the country providing special
services like nursing homes, hospice, home healthcare, and others, because. Majority of the
focus under healthcare were devoted to the development of hospitals, and delivery of health
services to the far-flung areas in small clinics and hospitals, or even RHU (rural health units). If
there are special services in the country it may be operated by a NGO (n non-government
organization) or it is minimally funded by the government.

Hospitals in the country deliver quality health services that can compete with other worldwide.
There are classifications of the hospital in the country which is primarily regulated by the
Department of Health (DOH) as its a major regulating agency that also provide standards on
procedures of the hospital. Hospitals can be classified according to their service: general-which
provide basic services and caters to all kinds of cases, specialty- which only caters to specific
cases and provides basic services. As the regulating agency provide standards of procedure and
provide a classification of the hospital according to bed capacity: Level 1- most basic level
provides basic service like first aid this is RHU and clinics they don’t admit patient all are
ambulatory or outpatient. Level 2- referral units for level 1 in case they can’t provide extensive
care this can be classified under district hospitals, they can admit and provide basic services
under imaging. Pharmacy, laboratory, and surgery. provide with at least 25-75 bed
capacity.  Level 3-  deliver extensive which can have at least 100-200 bed capacity. Level
4-  considered as a training and research institution where students under the field of medicine
take their training and conduct researches. Which can have at least 200-500 bed capacity?
Hospitals also classified according to the ownership: Public/government - which is owned by
the government funds and other needs are provided by the government. Private-  which is
owned by private corporations or groups, funds are usually provided through solicitations and
donations.