NSB022 Study Guide - Final Guide: Diastolic Heart Failure, Stroke, Embolectomy
Document Summary
Primary health care: a basic level of health care that includes programs directed at the promotion of health, early diagnosis of disease or disability, and prevention of the disease. Principles are based on: 1. equity, 2. social justice, 3. empowerment. Alma-at principles, ensure universal access, consider population issues, create adequate conditions for effective provisions of health care to vulnerable groups, organise integrated care preventive, acute and chronic care, strive to improve performance. Provision of water and sanitation, maternal and child health care, immunisation, prevention of endemics, appropriate tx. Chronic illness self-management requirements: clear understanding of illness & outcomes sought, active engagement in own disease management processes, self- management skills, self-efficacy (ability to successfully learn and perform behaviour), health literacy. Managing chronic illness: understanding of disease and tx, monitoring s/s detecting changes treatments, seek help, prevention and management of crisis. Associated factors with chronic illnesses: hereditary, lifestyle, environmental factors associated with development.
