Analysis of Determinants and Principles in Primary Health Care Report

This report examines primary health care, focusing on a community health initiative. The report analyzes key determinants such as community culture and education, emphasizing their impact on health promotion. It identifies cooperation and community participation as crucial principles. Injury prevention and control are highlighted as priorities. The report discusses cultural competence, stressing the importance of understanding and integrating community values for effective health interventions. The analysis includes references to support the arguments, providing a comprehensive overview of the factors influencing primary health care delivery and outcomes. The report underscores the need for community engagement and culturally sensitive approaches to improve health outcomes.

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Assessment 2
Question 1:
The first determinant is the culture of the community.
Culture is the way people live in the society. When the director wanted to promote the
project in the organization, she establishes that the community considers the children as sacred.
The issue of children holy is used to mend the broken relationship in the society. The community
needs to be united for the concerns to be realized (Cunningham et al. 2016). For instance, when
the circled team set their feet in the city, they collected the higher ranked people in the society.
The leaders included the elders, grandmothers, teenagers and lastly the little children in the
community.
After learning the members of the society live, it was straightforward to build a healthy
community and pass information concerning health care (Drummond et al.2015). From the
video, the broken relationship within the community is amended through embracing the way they
used to live before. The facilitators collect the members of the society, and they make stories
together as they engage each other. This engagement gives a room for expressing anything
wrong and amending where necessary.
The other determinant is education.

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When people are aware of what needs to be done at any particular time, promotion of health care
services becomes easier (Hunter et al.2017). From the video, the director of the says that they
have come to the community to educate them on the importance of valuing the health of the
children. The elder in the community admits that at first the city was united and diseases were
rare in children. However, the unity disappeared after some time. The members of the
community are collected in the circle down the tree for the awareness. In the gathering,
everybody gets the opportunity to express his or her idea. The directors then teach the
community the way to go. The circle group is enhancing the education through various methods.
The meals have been prepared; people are eating as they happily share the stories.
Question 2:
The first principle that is evident in the video is the cooperation of every individual in the
society. Elders give the best direction when it comes to how to handle the community issues.
When members of the organization cooperate, health promotion goals are easy to achieve. From
the video, the trainers are first collecting the members of the society under a tree. The main
reason to manage the people is to ensure that everyone gets involved in the promotion of a
healthy community. For each to cooperate, members of the society from high rank to the lower
ones must come together. For instance, elders, grandmothers, youths and the little children come
together under the tree to be the educated on the healthy society. When everyone is brought
together during the health promotion, even the young ones grow with the idea to promote a
healthy culture. From the video, the circle where the community has gathered makes them read
from the same page as the idea of healthy society is promoted.

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The second principle evident in the video is the willingness of the members of the society to
take part in the health promotion. When visitors come to promote a healthy community, it is
essential that the residents should take the first activities in ensuring the dream is achieved.
However, lack of proper resident participation may make the efforts no go where. In the
video, every person in the society is taking part in the promotion talks. Women are preparing
food as people gather to share information with each other. The other important thing is that the
elders are also willing to provide the history of the society. When the elder compares the older
days to date, there is a big difference since children are no longer treated as sacred creatures. The
trainers are assisting in mending the situation by collecting and training the children on the
practice of a healthy society. Apparently, the elders say that the coming of the Europeans in the
area is the source of the problem. The lifestyle in the organization has changed since then, and
there is need to mend the situation. There it is evident that the community participation is a
principle in promoting good health.
Question 3:
The priority is the injury prevention and control (Tilahun, et al.2017). When the community
comes together, they prevent the occurrence of any damage. The damages may include child
abuse and decimation. The sharing of ideas when the city comes along ensures that any damage
that had already occurred is addressed and there is no future repeat of the same. Children and
women have been engaged in the discussion in the video, and this brings equality. In the
community talked about in the video, the population had already interfered with the relation that
was there initially. In the recent days, as stated by the elder taking part in the talk, children are

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not valued as it used to be in the past. There are several diseases compared to the past where
children were eating most of the things including fish, and the constant conditions were not
present at any moment. The trainers are looking forward to building the united community that
was there before. Another important thing here is that after the meeting organized down the tree,
the society may not encounter other problems such as the child abuse. The man seemed to be
superior to the other people such as children and women, but after the training, it is evident that
the community will move in the correct direction. The most important aim of the exercise is to
build a healthy community where the health of each one is in a good state.
Question 4:
Cultural competence is the ability to handle the problems in a society with the way people live
in a society (Murphy et al.2015). The other thing is that whether the culture of the community is
at good status when used. From the video, the culture of the people was embraced when they sat
circularly and discussed their problems. They practiced cultural event while here like making
chapatti using the old method. This cultural competency is crucial because it eased the work of
the facilitator. When applying artistic practice, the type of culture chosen should be of a suitable
type. It should be the one teaching children on how to be together and embrace unity. From the
video, it is easier to bring the primary health care in a united community. The use of the culture
of the city by the trainers has helped in achieving the goal of the promotion. For example, sitting
around a circle has enabled almost everybody to express his or her concern openly. There is no
decimation while one is expressing his or her views.
On the other hand, observing the culture of the society is essential in developing the program
of health promotion in a community. People feel that they are part of the program and taking

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point home is very easy. It easier for a person to deal with what he or she is familiar with in any
situation. When you teach people because of their culture, they usually get excited and
participate in the matter one hundred percent. The other thing that is important to observe while
preparing such forums is the welfare of the concerned people. For instance, in the video, the
trainers opted to make food for the members of the society while educating them on health
promotion matters. Therefore, while organizing such forums, studying the cultural competence
of the community is necessary. When these issues are reviewed before hosting the program, it is
easier to educate that society.

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