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Primary Healthcare Principles | Essay

   

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Running Head: PRIMARY HEALTH CAREMaternal Healthcare in Relation Primary Healthcare PrinciplesStudent NameUniversity Affiliations
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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 2AbstractThe essay is a discussion on how the various roles of a nurse should be entwisted on the five primary health care principles. The essay pays more focus on maternal health care as one of the core roles of the nurse and how it should correlate with the five primary health care principles. The five primary health care principles identified by the essay includes intersectoral collaboration, community participation, Manpower development, Accessibility and equity, and Use of appropriate technology. The professional roles of the nurse should follow the five principles of primary health care as discussed in the essay.IntroductionThe nurse plays various roles in the health sector in order to provide health care.According to Black, Laxminarayan, Temmerman & Walker (2016), health care isdefined as various tasks and activities put into place to maintain the health of an individual. The various professional roles that the nurses undertake in provision of health care includes: research and education, care and treatment for the sick, health promotion, postnatal and antenatal health care, family and child health care, public and population health, palliation and rehabilitation, illness prevention, community development among others(Kurtzman, 2016). (Stigler, Macinko, Pettigrew, Kumar & van Weel (2016) argues that there are different types of healthcare and includes: tertiary, primary and secondary healthcare.The primary health care does not require specialist but is provided by the general medical practitioners. It is mostly the care for minor health problems and firstpoint of care which is usually provided by the family doctor or the general physician. The medical specialists are required in the provision of secondary health care. The medical specialist who provides secondary health care includes cardiologist, urologist, and dermatologist among other medical specialists. The patients requiring primary health care are usually referred for secondary health care if the medical condition requires a medical specialist. The tertiary health care is provided when advanced treatment and medical investigation is required which include: cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, cancer management among other complicated medical interventions (Triyana, 2016). The essay will discuss the maternal health care as the professional function of the nurse in relation to primary health care principles.
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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 3DiscussionMaternal Health CareThe maternal health care is one of the professional functions of the nurse in order to provide both social and medical services to the child and the mother. Black,Walker, Laxminarayan, & Temmerman (2016) claims that the various services provided by the nurse in care for maternal health include the postnatal and prenatal medical services, pediatric care during infancy and family planning care. The aim of maternal health care is to reduce and prevent the child, maternal and infant mortality and morbidity (Black, Walker, Laxminarayan, & Temmerman, 2016). The provision ofmaternal healthcare follows the five primary health care principles as discussed in the essay below.1. Accessibility and EquityThe maternal health care is a vital medical service provided by the nurse as a primary health care. It should be ensured that it is easily accessible to all the mothers and children who require it (Clark, Kent & Jackson, 2016). Equity refers to impartiality in the distribution of resources to everyone so that every child and the mother are able to access the child and maternal health services regardless of the financial and economic capability (Clark, Kent & Jackson, 2016). The primary health care which includes maternal health services should be ensured that it is provided equally and that is affordable to all the people regardless of age, gender, location or ethnicity. The maternal health care should therefore be concentrated in the regions with the greatest need for maternal health care. Black, Laxminarayan, Temmerman & Walker (2016) asserts that the establishment of outreach health services and health centres should consider the locations with the greatest need of maternal and child health care. The maternal health care as part of primary health care should therefore be the right of every mother regardless of their capability to pay (Black, Laxminarayan, Temmerman & Walker, 2016). The primary health care should be comprehensively accessed by all the people who are in need of it.2. Manpower Development
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