Promoting health: the primary health care approach, 6th edn. LynTalbotGlendaVerrinder Published by Elsevier Australia, 2018. Paperback, 460 pages with index. ISBN: 9780729542579 RRP $84.95

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-129
Author(s):  
Emma Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Approach

Community Participation in the National Development Plan Through Primary Health Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-178
Author(s):  
Johannes Ntshilagane Mampane
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
National Development Plan ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Care Approach

The chapter explores and describes community participation in the National Development Plan through Primary Health Care by using case studies of LGBT organizations in South Africa. Post-Apartheid and democratic South Africa has endorsed community participation as one of the fundamental pillars of the public Primary Health Care approach in its governance structures. This chapter focuses on the current major health issue in South Africa, the HIV epidemic, which is one of the leading causes of death in the country. Particular attention is paid to members of the LGBT community because of their discrimination in public healthcare facilities on grounds of their sexual orientation. The chapter relies on secondary sources of data collection from extant literature, textbooks, journal articles, and internet sources. Challenges to address LGBT community discrimination in HIV testing, prevention, treatment, care, and support were identified and solutions to uphold their human rights were proffered. These solutions are based on the principles of social justice, inclusion, diversity, and equality.

Community Participation in the National Development Plan Through Primary Health Care

2022 ◽  
pp. 657-671
Author(s):  
Johannes Ntshilagane Mampane
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
National Development Plan ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Care Approach

The chapter explores and describes community participation in the National Development Plan through Primary Health Care by using case studies of LGBT organizations in South Africa. Post-Apartheid and democratic South Africa has endorsed community participation as one of the fundamental pillars of the public Primary Health Care approach in its governance structures. This chapter focuses on the current major health issue in South Africa, the HIV epidemic, which is one of the leading causes of death in the country. Particular attention is paid to members of the LGBT community because of their discrimination in public healthcare facilities on grounds of their sexual orientation. The chapter relies on secondary sources of data collection from extant literature, textbooks, journal articles, and internet sources. Challenges to address LGBT community discrimination in HIV testing, prevention, treatment, care, and support were identified and solutions to uphold their human rights were proffered. These solutions are based on the principles of social justice, inclusion, diversity, and equality.

Duelling Band-aids: Debating and Debunking Issues Affecting Primary Health Care to Achieve Deliverance for Australia's Health

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judi Walker ◽  
Grant Lennox
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Status ◽  
Care Approach

The constant pressure for growth on all areas of health spending is not matched by the country's capacity to pay. Despite a progressive shift to a primary health care approach that promotes health and wellbeing, illness prevention, healthy lifestyles, early detection, rehabilitation and public health strategies, not all segments of Australian society enjoy good health. In this paper, general indications of the health and wellbeing of Australians are described, and the health and wellbeing of two important population groups: rural and remote and Indigenous populations are discussed, providing a review of Australia's health system. Anomalies in the status of the health of Australians are apparent. Models of primary healthcare, individual health and urban health are compared with models of acute and institutional care, population health and rural health.

South Port Day Links: Working with the Community

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Julie Statkus
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
High Level

With a focus on transport and information, and in recognition of the changing structure of neighbourhoods, South Port Day Links has developed and facilitated creative ways of linking people who are frail, are aged, who experience disabilities, or who are carers in their community. Day Links works at the community level and is successful because of the high level of participation by local residents. It has a primary health care approach with an emphasis on increasing and maintaining the social, as well as physical, aspects of people's lives which allows individuals to participate more fully in their community.

scholarly journals Dynamics surrounding the Implementation of the Primary Health Care Approach in Zimbabwe’s Rural Areas: The Case of Mt Darwin District

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Alouis Chilunjika ◽  
Sharon R.T. Muzvidziwa-Chilunjika
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Research Findings

This research studied the implementation of the Primary Health Care approach to health service delivery in Zimbabwe’s rural areas from 2009 to 2012. The approach was launched in response to the Alma-Alta Declaration in 1978 which sought to end the inequalities in health care provision around the globe and was first adopted and implemented in 1982 in Zimbabwe. The approach almost collapsed due to the economic meltdown in the past decade but the period 2009 to 2013 marked a new economic paradigm in Zimbabwe which saw the economy being dollarized which subsequently led to the revival and the resuscitation of the health sector. It is therefore to explore the progress and the dynamics surrounding the implementation of the PHC at Mt Darwin Hospital in light of the dollarized economy. The study explores the dynamics surrounding the implementation of PHC at Mt Darwin District Hospital by particular attention to the following key elements: promotion of nutrition, sanitation, maternal and child care, immunization, treatment of common diseases and provision of essential drugs. Qualitative techniques such as face to face interviews with key informants and documentary research were used to generate data. The research findings revealed that PHC is a powerful tool in delivering health services in Mt Darwin. However, lack of material, financial and human resources have hindered the proper implementation of the PHC approach in Mt Darwin district. The study recommends multi sectoral collaboration in solving health related issues.

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