Primary Health Care Approaches

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Report on how the approaches of primary health care, supports nurses in partnership
with families and children in remote and rural areas
Introduction
The aim of the report is to discuss how the approaches of primary health care,
supports nurses in partnership with families and children in remote and rural areas. The world
health organization in the year 1978, embraced the approach of primary health care as a
foundation to achieve health services delivery that is effective. The approach forms the health
care philosophy and health services provision. The types of care included in primary health
care approach include; promotive; preventive; curative; rehabilitative; and
supportive/comforting. Additionally the report will focus on health promotion programme
such as training and support groups and health education topic such as mental behaviour or
behaviour health that have been viewed to improve the welfare of families and children in
remote and rural places. The outcomes observed are positive including educating of patients,
self-management of patients’ quality of life and adherence. Health promotion field is wide
thus more research is required.
Children and families living in rural and remote areas face different challenges in
their daily lives and thus they depend heavily on nurses to guide their daily activities since
nurses are part of huge workforce in rural and remote communities. Nurses’ role for a long
time has included the practices of clinical nursing, treatment follow up, consultation,
educating of patients and prevention of illness. This has led to improvement of healthcare
services availability, maximized cost effectiveness, minimization of chronic diseases
symptoms and lastly improved experiences of customers when healthcare services. Primary
health care approaches serves the nurses with the ability to be promotive; in this case by

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working together with other partnership families and individuals to dis cover the needs and
desires of families and children in order to plan care and examine services.
Findings and Discussions
Findings suggests that most nurses are seen to work in serious care hospitals,
correspondingly others work in nursing homes and health centers that are structured. Looking
at a different environments that is not medicalized, studies suggest that community nurses
especially in Australia form an important workforce in healthcare systems given the
magnitude and multiplicity of communities that live in rural and remote places (Russell,
Wakerman, & Humphreys, 2013). The health care of Australia consist of two tiers layers that
is the government and the latter that perform different tasks in health care services. The role
of nurses has changed as it was stipulated traditionally. Nurses traditionally concentrated
much in disease prevention to promote health, and also to change individual behaviour
correspondingly to their health places (Russell, Wakerman, & Humphreys, 2013). Primary
health care approaches supports nurses in rural and remote areas to serve children and
families effectively (Bennett, Jones, Brown, & Barlow, 2013).
The changes experienced in health services in rural and remote areas has contributed
greatly to changes in what the nurses in rural place perform. Thus primary health care in rural
and remote areas continues to support the nurses in taking care of children and families for
example children facing mental health issues (Fitch, Fliedner, & O’Connor, 2015). Such
children and require special attention in their daily activities because some of the mental
health issues are considered to be critical. It involves support and rehabilitation by the nurses.
Several changes has been observed in community based services, how decisions are
made and population health in partnership with rural communities. Primary health care
approaches supports nurses in partnership with rural communities for example by making the