Report on Primary Health Care in the Context of Albury Wodonga

This report provides an overview of primary health care (PHC) within the context of Albury Wodonga. It defines PHC as essential healthcare based on sound scientific and social methods, emphasizing its accessibility to all individuals and families. The report highlights the importance of PHC in alleviating pressure on healthcare centers and addressing community health problems. It explores the aims of PHC, as defined by the World Health Organization, including reducing health disparities and integrating health into overall systems. Furthermore, the report discusses the Ottawa Charter, detailing its principles such as building healthy public policies, creating supportive environments, strengthening community actions, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services. These principles are then applied to the Albury Wodonga context, suggesting strategies for improving health conditions and reducing disease spread. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of PHC and the need for improved primary health services to foster a healthier environment.

Primary health care in the
context of my Community

Primary health care can be simply defined as an essential heath care that is formulated on
the basis of scientifically good and socially accepted methods. This made universal health care
approachable to each and every individual and families in a community. Primary health care is
important that is accessed by all people throughout the globe, by complete involvement and at a
price that can be afforded by community and nation (Harrison and et. al., 2011). It is supporting
to minimise the work pressure from health care centres. This supports in solving health problems
present within a community. The present report is based on primary health care in context of
Albury Wodonga.
The significant objective of primary health care is providing good health to all. There are
other five aims of PHC which is made by the World Health Organization. The first one is to
reduce rejection and health disparities of society. Second one is to arrange health services on the
basis of requirements and needs of citizens. Third one is integration of health into overall firms.
Moving on the fourth aim, it is reformation of leadership and fifth one is increasing the
involvement of stakeholders.
Ottawa Charter was formed in the year 1986 at first International Conference on Health
Promotion. Charter discovered different determinants of health and give five main principles
regarding the same. Such principles are listed as below:
Build healthy public policy: For improving the conditions of health, it is important to
develop the policies at all levels. It consists of fiscal measures, organizational change, legislation
and taxation (Drummond and et. al., 2015). Policies are required to determine the obstacle of
health and try to eliminate them by creating healthier choice and the easiest one.
Create supportive environment: Environment and health conditions of people are
closely linked with each other and needs a socio ecological approach to health. Maintaining the
surrounding reciprocally is the leading principle. Work and relaxation should upgrade health and
should not relegate or demote it.
Strengthen community actions: Actions of communities can be strengthened by
involving the community in making priorities, setting strategies, making relevant decisions and
executing those for improving the results of health.
Develop personal skills: It needed the provision of education, information and life skill
development (Mason, Leavitt and Chaffee, 2013). This enhances choices and control for all
people over their personal health. It is important to fit people for life by increasing learning and
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for developing skills so that individuals can cope up from the illness in health. This can be
performed via school, home and community settings.
Reorient health services: This is about shifting towards a system that will upgrade the
situations of health rather than taking other alternative services (Brown and et. al., 2011). This
transformation focuses not only on their illness or disease but also on the requirements of all
people.
These principles can be implemented in Albury Wodonga for improving the health
conditions. Building of healthy public policies would assist in creating a hygienic environment.
This will reduce the spread of infectious diseases. A supportive environment should be created
where all persons are provided with support regarding health services. This also excludes the
social disparities (Principles of Primary Health Care, 2017).
From the above based report, it can be concluded that primary health is important as they
provide health services to all people. The principles of PHC and Ottawa Charter are also
explained here such as creation of supportive environment, development of personal skills,
strengthening the actions of community and reorientation of health services. The condition of
primary health services should be improved so that spread of diseases can be reduced and a
healthier environment can be developed as well.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Brown, J. & et. al. (2011). Conflict on interprofessional primary health care teams–can it be
resolved?. Journal of interprofessional care. 25(1). 4-10.
Drummond, M. F. & et. al. (2015). Methods for the economic evaluation of health care
programmes. Oxford university press.
Harrison, S. E. & et. al. (2011). Primary health and supportive care needs of long-term cancer
survivors: a questionnaire survey. Journal of Clinical oncology. 29(15). 2091-2098.
Mason, D. J., Leavitt, J. K. & Chaffee, M. W. (2013). Policy and Politics in Nursing and
Healthcare-Revised Reprint. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Online
Principles of Primary Health Care. 2017. [Online]. Available through:
<http://www.von.ca/en/principles-primary-health-care>. [Accessed on 31st August 2017].
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