scholarly journals Community participation in health service reform: the development of an innovative remote Aboriginal primary health-care service

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Reeve ◽  
John Humphreys ◽  
John Wakerman ◽  
Vicki Carroll ◽  
Maureen Carter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Disadvantaged Area ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Comprehensive Primary Health Care

The aim of this study was to describe the reorientation of a remote primary health-care service, in the Kimberley region of Australia, its impact on access to services and the factors instrumental in bringing about change. A unique community-initiated health service partnership was developed between a community-controlled Aboriginal health organisation, a government hospital and a population health unit, in order to overcome the challenges of delivering primary health care to a dispersed, highly disadvantaged Aboriginal population in a very remote area. The shared goals and clear delineation of responsibilities achieved through the partnership reoriented an essentially acute hospital-based service to a prevention-focussed comprehensive primary health-care service, with a focus on systematic screening for chronic disease, interdisciplinary follow up, health promotion, community advocacy and primary prevention. This formal partnership enabled the primary health-care service to meet the major challenges of providing a sustainable, prevention-focussed service in a very remote and socially disadvantaged area.

scholarly journals Reasons for students’ poor clinical competencies in the Primary Health Care: Clinical nursing, diagnosis treatment and care programme

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nomasonto B. Magobe ◽  
Sonya Beukes ◽  
Ann Müller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Clinical Competencies ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Comprehensive Primary Health Care

‘No member of [health] staff should undertake tasks unless they are competent to do so’ is stated in the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Service Package for South Africa (Department of Health 2001)document. In South Africa, primary clinical nurses (PCNs), traditionally known as primary health care nurses (PHCNs), function as ‘frontline providers’ of clinical primary health care (PHC) services within public PHC facilities, which is their extended role. This extended role of registered nurses(set out in section 38A of the Nursing Act 50 of 1978, as amended) demands high clinical competency training by nursing schools and universities.The objectives of the study were to explore and describe the perceptions of both clinical instructors and students, in terms of the reasons for poor clinical competencies. Results established that two main challenges contributed to students’ poor clinical competencies: challenges within the PHC clinical field and challenges within the learning programme (University).OpsommingDie primêre kliniese verpleegkundiges, tradisioneel bekend as primêre gesondheidsorg verpleegkundiges, funksioneer in Suid-Afrika as eerste-linie verskaffers van kliniese primêre gesondheidsorg (PGS) dienste binne die publieke PGS fasiliteite. Dit is hulle uitgebreide rol. Hierdie uitgebreide rol van die verpleegkundige (soos deur Wet op Verpleging,No 50 van 1978, artikel 38A voorgeskryf), vereis opleiding in kliniese vaardighede van hoë gehalte deur verpleegskole en universiteite.Die doelwitte van die navorsing was om die persepsies van beide kliniese dosente en leerders,met betrekking tot die redes vir swak kliniese vaardighede, repektiewelik te verken en te beskryf.Twee temas is deur die resultate as uitdagings (hoof redes) vir die swak vaardighede van leerders aangetoon, naamlik uitdagings in die PGS kliniese praktyk en die uitdagings in die leerprogram (universiteit).

Developing Rural Primary Health Care Service Areas: An Analysis of Patient Migration Patterns

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Adam Atherly ◽  
John Kralewski ◽  
Christopher Johnson ◽  
Michelle Brasure
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Service Areas

scholarly journals Community health worker in hard-to-reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling primary health care service gaps

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angkana Sommanustweechai ◽  
Weerasak Putthasri ◽  
Mya Lay Nwe ◽  
Saw Thetlya Aung ◽  
Mya Min Theint ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Community Health Worker ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals Vitamin D testing patterns among general practitioners in a major Victorian primary health care service

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Usha Gowda ◽  
Ben J. Smith ◽  
Anita E. Wluka ◽  
David P.S. Fong ◽  
Ambika Kaur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Vitamin D ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health Care Service ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Testing Patterns
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