PRIMARY HEALTHCARE

AND DISEASE PREVENTION

Mentor: Ph. D. Dragana Čarapić

Student: Samra Pepić 23/15
 MEDICAL CARE – HEALTH CARE

• Health care services is provided to

individuals or communities by health
service professionals for purpose of
promoting, monitoring & restoring
health i.e. it is given by a physician
and health workers and for the
community as a whole.
 LEVELS OF CARE

1. Primary health care

2. Secondary health care
3. Tertiary health care
 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• The “first” level of contact between the

individual and the health system.
• Essential health care (PHC) is provided.
• A majority of prevailing health problems can
be satisfactorily managed.
• The closest to the people.
• Provided by the primary health centers.
 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• It is concerned with establishing a

system of health which meets the
essential needs of most of the
population.
• PHC aims to achieve full coverage
with essential health care by
distributing resources in order to obtain
maximum benefit to people as a whole
with lowest cost.
 DEFINITION OF PHC (WHO)

• Primary Health Care is

essential health care made
accessible at a cost a
country and community can
afford, with methods that
are practical, scientifically
sound and socially
acceptable.
 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• Primary care is an approach

that:
• Focuses on the person not the
disease, considers all
determinants of health
• Integrates care when there is
more than one problem
• Uses resources to narrow
differences
 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• Forms the basis for other levels

of health systems
• Addresses most important
problems in the community by
providing preventive, curative,
and rehabilitative services
• Organizes the resources aiming
at promoting and maintaining
health
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

1.Health Education concerning prevailing

health problems and the methods of
preventing and controlling them
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• 2. Promotion of food supply and proper

nutrition
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• 3. An adequate
supply of safe water
and basic sanitation
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• 4. Maternal and
child health care,
including family
planning
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• 5. Immunization
against the major
infectious diseases
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• 6. Prevention and
control of locally
endemic diseases
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

• 7. Appropriate
treatment of
common diseases
and injuries
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

8. Provide regular
controls for health
condition in medical
centers
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

9. provision of
essential drugs.
ELEMENTS OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

10. Training of
health guides, health
workers and health
assistants.