Deck 6: Primary Health Care Systems and Reforms

Question 1

A model of community-based health service delivery and a philosophy about equity and fairness best describes:

A)population health care
B)public health care
C)selective health care
D)primary health care

Answer 1

primary health care

Question 2

Which of the following represents a selective primary health care approach?

A)The main aim is reduction or elimination of specific diseases
B)Strategies focus on curative,rehabilitative,preventive and health promotion aspects that seek to remove the root cause of ill-health
C)Complex,multiple methods provide forms of evidence and include epidemiology,qualitative and participatory methodology
D)Acknowledgement that primary health care is inevitably political and engages with local political structures such as consumer advocate groups

Answer 2

The main aim is reduction or elimination of specific diseases

Question 3

Which of the following statements best describes primary prevention?

A)Timely treatment to prevent the exacerbation or complication of disease or illness
B)The provision of housing,social support and safe environments
C)It includes screening and brief,opportunistic health education interventions
D)Rehabilitation to restore health to the optimum possible state for that person

Answer 3

It includes screening and brief,opportunistic health education interventions

Question 4

Australia is a relatively rich country,and therefore there is little need for comprehensive primary health care programs.

Question 5

Which of the following represents a comprehensive primary health care approach?

A)Engaged participation that starts with community strengths and their assessment of health issues,ongoing and aiming for community control
B)Forms of evidence are limited to assessment of disease-prevention strategy based on traditional epidemiological methods usually conducted out of context and extrapolated to the situation
C)Strategies with a curative focus,with some attention to prevention and promotion
D)Planning and strategy development is external with programs having little tailoring to local circumstances

Question 6

An international conference on public health care that took place in 1978 was articulated in a document that still guides primary health care.This document is called the:

A)Public Health Mandate
B)Social Health Directive
C)Public Health Care Declaration
D)Declaration of Alma-Ata

Question 7

Which of the following are initiated and operated by local Aboriginal communities expressly to deliver holistic,comprehensive and culturally appropriate health care?

A)The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
B)The Primary Health Care Access Program
C)The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
D)Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations

Question 8

Primary health care is essential health care based on practical,scientifically sound,and socially acceptable methods and technology.

Question 9

All of the following are salient principles of primary health care from the Declaration of Alma-Ata,except:

A)An explicit link between health and social development,and the social and environmental determinants of health
B)A reduced reliance on highly specialised doctors and nurses and greater mobilisation of community-based health care
C)A commitment to address the health inequities by redirecting rehabilitation health care services to urban hospitals
D)A commitment to shift health resources from urban hospitals to community-based settings

Question 10

What are the social determinants of health?

A)An area of the health care system that focuses on group interventions and disease management
B)A philosophy about equity and fairness in terms of access to affordable and appropriate health care
C)The social characteristics of living and working environments
D)The contemporary notions of selective primary health care