Principles of Primary Health CareHometown Case Study

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Description of the Hometown.....................................................................................................................3
Factors that affect health and wellbeing in Hometown...............................................................................4
Principles of PHC and SDOH relevance in Hometown.................................................................................4
Health Care Services for Disadvantaged Populations in Hometown...........................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................5
References...................................................................................................................................................7

Principles of Primary Health Care-
Hometown Case Study
Introduction
Primary Health Care (PHC) is an important part of a health care system for addressing specific
health needs of a community at the grassroots level. PHC is an approach of health care that deal
with health problems and other issues experienced by a community (Mutter, Liaw, Moore, Etz,
Howe, & Bazemore, 2018). A community PHC has to address social determinants of health
(SDOH) of a community to promote, prevent, and treat their health. The following report
discusses Hometown PHC using principles of PHC to find out what aligns and what need to be
done to achieve comprehensive PHC.
Description of the Hometown
Hometown is a small town located 685km from the nearest city and 298km from nearest regional
centre. The town is also 110km from a nearest major centre and 65km from a slightly larger
town. The town has a population of 1430 with 17% being over 65 years and 111 indentifying
themselves as Indigenous Australians. The median age for the population is 40 years. The
majority of people speak English with 49 persons from German descent.
Hometown has a multi-purpose service hospital and one medical centre that with one GP. The
hospital has 10 acute beds, residential aged care facility with a capacity of 20 beds and an
emergency department. The town also has a community health centre that offers palliative care,
child and family health services, community nursing, visiting Allied professionals, and visiting
fortnightly Public Dental Health Clinic. The town has general X-ray services and lacks imaging
services beyond plain X ray. Hometown physiotherapy services are not available throughout.
Hometown also has a private visiting dentist, privately operated aged care facility with 19 beds
and a small community pharmacy that supply medications or obtain from large centre.
Hometown has 25% of its population attending to some form of education. The town has one
government school comprising of a primary and secondary school and one catholic primary
school. The town lacks higher education facilities. In terms of employment, 50% of the