PRIMARY HEALTH CARE Name of the Student Name of the University.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
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During past two decades, the social determinants of health are in spot light of public
research since these determinants have high contribution in an increase of global burden of
disease. In the context of providing the detail idea of social determinants of health in relation
to the respective project, it is imperative to provide the definition for the idea of the project in
the first instance. The project called “it takes a village” is mainly concentrated on the
evaluation of health determinants and provides scope to recent and teenage parents to build
a safe environment for their children (Durlak, 2016). On the other hand, the project also
provides information including social determinants, community support and workplace health
as well. Therefore, it has been realised that in the context of the project there are several
social determinants that contribute in developing and gaining success in relation to the
health education program. In this regard to measures, social determinants of health would
be discussed in terms of i) Access to Healthcare ii) Strong individual economic standard.
Access to Healthcare is one of the major social determinants as in many parts of the world;
Health care systems are not accessible by the population in the rural areas. Considering the
objectives of the paper and taking an insight of the video, lack of access to the health care
services is highlighted as one of the crucial social determents for Aboriginal population of
Torres Island. Therefore, providing the access to health care services would help in
achieving the objectives of the project. For example, in Australia, the Aboriginal Torres
islanders have been found to lead a life in the rural areas of Australia and where the
Healthcare system of the practices is less accessible by them (Guillemin et al. 2014). As
shown in the video the project called it takes a village has contributed in developing a safe
environment and communal contribution to develop a better world for the children and help
teenage mothers to build it as well.
Strong individual economic standard:
As discussed by Williams, Priest and Anderson (2016), economic status of an individual is
one of the crucial social determinants of the health which since it is directly proportional to
health and wellbeing of that individuals. Therefore, high economic status supports the
mental, physical and emotional wellbeing and improves quality of life. As the video has
rightly explained the fact that individual economic standard is important as it could help in
increasing the health condition of a mother and her child as well. It has been observed in
the video where a lady with her infant was being ignored and were not supported by the
relatives due to which she had to encounter financial crisis and hence became homeless.
So, the economic strength is an important social determinant of health that could help the
project to gain its desired objective and success (Leeuw, 2016).

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Considering the Primary Health Care services, the core principles of primary health care
services is what assists health care professionals to provide safe and responsive care to the
patients and support their wellbeing. The significance of primary health care is that this
form care takes preventive measures for chronic disease and encourage self-care
recommendations that support faster recovery from chronic disease. Furthermore, there are
mountain of evidence documented in literature which suggested that primary health care
approach promotes the healthy living by creating safe environment in communities ,
supports healthy life style choices by providing education and reduces the health care
expenditure. There are five primary Health Care principles that are effective in delivering
project success and attainment of the objective. The primary principles of Healthcare are
stated below:
● promotive
● preventive
● curative
● rehabilitative
● and supportive/palliative
Among the five mentioned Primary Health Care principles, the most effective and significant
principles are Prevention of illness and promotion of Health Care (Success & Project, 2019).
The prevention of illness is something that requires several Healthcare practices to be
considered along with the certain social practice of determinants as well. The prevention of
illness does not only involve the prevention of diseases in the human body but also it
includes the act of improving the social aspects that might help an individual to attain the
healthy living environment as well. For example, the video has manifested that building
health care system refers to the development of a healthy environment for new teenage
mothers and their children as well.
Health promotional activities involve several aspects such as nutrition, health awareness,
sanitation, child health care and so on (Leeuw, 2016). Purpose and objective of healthcare
promotion are to reduce the amount of Investment in the curative and rehabilitative care of
health practices. Through health promotion, the social determinants could be developed and
understood by the communities and the families and individuals; on the other hand, it also
helps them in improving their skills of standard living and maintaining good health and
environment at the same time.