Primary Health Care Nursing Roles And Health Strategies

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What does primary health care encompass?

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a broad spectrum of activities to encourage health and wellbeing

Front 2

what activities encourage health and wellbeing?

Back 2

- primary care

- health promotion

- health protection

- illness prevention

- building community capacity

Front 3

primary health care builds community capacity to...

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- enable sustainable health and wellbeing

- equity

- community participation

- self-determinism

Front 4

what are some principles of primary health care?

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- essential health care

- based on practical and reliable methods and technology

- accessible to whole community

- affordable

Front 5

what is primary health care geared towards?

Back 5

self-reliance and self determination

Front 6

what the Primary Health Care Strategy (2001) state?

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that primary health care nursing is crucial to its implementation

Front 7

what is the key role of district nurses?

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managing chronic illnesses in the community

Front 8

what does the nz health strategy do?

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- develops the framework for action

- identifies key areas that government needs to focus on

- provides DHB with the context of which they will operate

- identifies the way forward

Front 9

why bother with the nz health strategy?

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- establish short and long term policy goals for the health of New Zealanders

- reduce inequality in health status

- ensure accessible and appropriate services for maori and pacific islanders

- address determinants of health

Front 10

what are the 7 principles of the nz health strategy? (1-4)

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1. acknowledge special relationship between maori and crown

2. good health and wellbeing for all new Zealanders throughout their lives

3. collaborative health promotion by all sectors

4. easy access for all nz's to a range of health and disability services regardless of ability to pay

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what are the 7 principles of the nz health strategy? (5-7)

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5. improvement of health status for those who are currently disadvantaged

6. high-performing system in which people have confidence

7. active involvement of consumers and communities at all levels

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name 11 population health objectives: (1-6)

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1. decrease smoking (smoke free by 2025)

2. decrease obesity levels

3. reducing rate of suicide and suicide attempts

4. minimizing harm caused by alcohol and illicit and other drug use

5. reduce incidence and impact of diabetes

6. improve oral health

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name 11 population health objectives: (7-11)

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7. reduce violence in interpersonal relationships, families, schools and communities

8. improve health status of those with mental illness

9. ensure access to appropriate child health care services

10. push play campaign/increasing activity

11. ethnic differences

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what are the six key directions of the primary health care strategy?

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1. work with local communities and enrolled populations

2. identify and remove health inequalities

3. offer access to services to improve, maintain and restore health

4. coordinate care across service areas

5. develop primary health care workforce

6. continually improve quality using good information

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what should primary health care be?

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- universally accessible to people in their communities

- involve community participation

- integral to and a central function of the nz health system

- first level of contact with health system