Exploring Primary Health Care: Concepts, Perceptions, and Influences on Health and Wellbeing

Running head: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 1
Primary Health Care
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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 2
Introduction
Primary health care is vital healthcare made universally available to people and
acceptable to them (Lawati, Dennis, Short & Abdulhadi, 2018). It addresses the wider health
determinants and focuses on the similar and inclusive features of physical, mental and social
health. Furthermore, it delivers whole-person attention for health needs over the lifespan and not
just for a set of particular illnesses. The essay will discuss the concepts that reflect what health
means and how the perceptions of health impact a person’s expectations of health and wellbeing
influenced by social determinants of health along with principles of primary health care. The
principle of primary health care to be used is community participation and employment as a
social health determinant.
Identify three terms/concepts that reflect what health means to you, and briefly explain
how these terms/concepts inform your concept of health.
The first concept of what health means is that being strong physically show that a person
is healthy. This informs that for one to have the strength to deal with physical life challenges to
remain healthy, he or she must be stable financially which is possible only if the person has a
good paying job. They should engage themselves in some operations with other community
members to be encouraged and also encourage others especially the lonely peers. Moreover,
health is living well and promoting balance. To live well means that a person is practising
healthy eating habits and is free from unhealthy behaviours like stress. This lifestyle is only
achievable if one can afford proper nutrition and engage himself in exercises by participating in
the community. Finally, health is being active, eating right and being in shape which informs that
to stay fit physically, mentally and socially one must go out for a job event to keep him active
and involve himself in activities in the society.