Healthcare 10: Primary Healthcare and its Applications Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of primary healthcare, emphasizing its significance in addressing community environmental health issues. The report explores various facets, including the planning, implementation, and evaluation of environmental health programs at the community and ...Read More

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Primary Healthcare and its Applications
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Introduction
Primary healthcare is essential to care that is referred to from the clear sound and acceptable
logic and technology; it easy to access universal health care for all individuals in society.
Examples of primary health care issues in the communities are tobacco, HIV/AIDS, mental
health, overweight and obesity, substance abuse, environmental quality, immunization, injury
and violence and access to health care. Picking on the ecological condition for this program, we
shall discuss its planning, implementation, and evaluation at the community level as well as the
international context. Environmental quality is affected by the massive growth of the population.
The report by the government has demonstrated the factors that might be causing health issues
due to primary health care in communities are the low-income, radical and ethnic minorities are
mostly suggested in areas that are affected by the environmental risks. In support of this, it was
found that the majority of the population live under the poverty line hence are unable to control
and manage their environmental hygiene.
Before the government decides to put in place the environmental health programs in schools,
it must ensure that it has installed the implementing facilities and necessary resources that are
needed to keep the program running (Bray et al., 2016). It will require that the assessment of the
already existing efforts, developed plans and established an infrastructure that has been
supporting the program be done so that if renovation or advancement is what is lacking, then
proper action can be taken. The government should develop a stable communication process in
every step in the program to continuously analyze the feedback from the participants and identify
the opportunities to help in expanding the program.
In assessing the existing resources and infrastructure, the identification of the lead office
within the regions of interest that will corporate with the agencies concerned in evaluating the

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current state initiatives and any existing laws, regulations, and policies that addresses the healthy
environmental living. In doing this, the following factors should be taken into place;
 Leadership and coordination. In this case, the state is likely the central administration
that helps to run the program in institutions that are responsible for educating people,
health service deliveries, agriculture, and the environmental. The established office
will assure the overall management program. When initiating a plan, the head office
should ensure that it reaches out to the other partners in the program implementation
to share the ideas on the strategies and potential approach for establishing an
institutional environmental health program.
 The steering committee and program partners such as the county executive, local
education authorities, school administration staff, community members, non-
governmental organizations (NGOs) and associations and school organizations should
coordinate and work as a team to complete a task.
 Subject matter experts. Since environmental health issues are a bit technical for
various institutions, the government might require to hire experts who are qualified to
address the problem in the partner institutions and to the community members at
large.
 Existing initiatives. After identifying existing the healthy institution initiatives, how
to manage the integrated pest control, chemical management efforts, anti-idling, and
green cleaning. The lead office should then make sure that it utilizes the proper
procedure put in place for environmental emergencies to develop the public health
care program.

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 State laws and policies. The state has to ensure that every organization and
community members adhere to the laid down procedures and regulations for the
effective smooth running of the program. The laws and the policies should be made
with the involvement of all the partisans in the program initiation.
The capacity of the state agency needs to be determined by the state for effective
environmental health program in the existing institutions. Different countries handle
environmental issues in different ways; thus, the state should know the capacity of its agencies
(Donham, & Thelin, 2016). This will help in the allocation of resources and expertise during plan
implementation. Every environmental health program in the community should be defined to
know in specific what each community benefit from the government initiative in improving the
health conditions of the state. Each area should at least get an allocation of the resources.
Development of a plan.
For a new plan to be established, the state should develop the first existing programs of the
environmental health program. After the identification of the existing infrastructure by the head
office, then the ecological health program should address the goals and objectives of the
environmental health program. When setting the priorities, the state should ensure that the
institutions understand and practice the public ecological laws and the local rules and
regulations. The program plan should give attention to top institutions by providing them with
facilities required to develop the strategy (Duckett & Willcox, 2015). As well, need assessment
need to be done so that those with the greatest need should be helped first. This can be done by
the state stemming down how the resources they provide reach the institutions without failure.
The schools should provide assistance to the government by contributing to the required to serve
the students and society.

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Institutions that serve the communities to face the school environmental health issues and
challenges. The top institutions face a small financial problem which calls for the additional
support from either the city or the government or any other concerned bodies that can offer
financial assistance. Among the help that the schools may need are identifying issues and
solutions that require more money to implement but can bring a positive impact on the school
environment and to the entire community (Eckelman & Sherman, 2016). Every potential partner
such as the colleges, universities, and other learning institutions should be reached for further
consultation and corporation for better provision of better technical assistance and safety
measure that is required in an area.
The goals and priorities should categorically be stated during the early planning stages of the
environmental health program to gain focus in schools hence can be used to measure the
progress. Concerning the issues obtained from determining the capacity and program assessment,
the government can set measurable, specific, and clear goals which can be achieved within a
specified time. The government is thus advised to establish a clear road-map that are short term,
intermediate, and extensional long-term goals and objectives. The general purposes include;
 Create an environmental management system that the top learning institutions across
the nation can adapt to better the lives of school staff and students.
 Elevate the environmental health importance in schools and aid in identifying the
schools that could benefit from the improved view of ecological health in society.
 Guarantee the protocol, procedure, and resources and contact points defined to
manage the environmental health emergencies and outcomes.
 Establish policies, guidance that can best be applied at the county and state level,
which addresses the following environmental health issues such as:

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 Indoor air quality,
 Chemical management
 Integrated pest management
 Green cleaning
 Construction and renovation
 Classroom comfort
 Provide tools that are necessary for the environmental health program which can be
adopted by the schools and administration for the facilitation of their environmental
health programs.
 Choose materials that are not effective for human health and are environmentally
friendly for the construction and renovation of the facilities.
 Raise the county learning standards for incorporating environmental health in the
learning curriculum of the students.
During planning, the state should incorporate the management of emergencies should it
occur. The appropriate procedures that are specific in handling environmental emergencies
(Gupta, Shukla & Tyagi, 2017). Some of how emergencies issues are as follows:
 Maintain a consistent, up-to-date emergency preparedness control and tenant emergency
plan.
 Addressing the unique individual needs
 Provide emergency training programs to the community members and the students
 Consultation services should be reliable and should meet the industrial hygiene and
environmental health hazards.
 Establish a reporting station for the emergencies in every community

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 Provide the most often guidance and recommendation to schools and the city during the
entire emergency period.
These policies of emergency control should be, and proper guidance should be conducted to
ensure that it runs smoothly for the ultimate control of the occurrence of the emergencies
(Heiman, & Artiga, 2015). The developed policies should be shared nationally and should be
verified by the national environmental board. The employees need to be recruited who will man
the emergency recruited offices created in every location.
Implementation of the program
It is an essential element to develope implementational strategies for the state environmental
program in schools and in the communities. The implementation methods vary in different states
and are driven by the resources available in each state and their needs. The head office needs to
corporate with the organizers of the committee to come with the implementational strategies that:
 Identifies the tasks that are to be completed for each goal.
 Projects the goals of the program
 Strips the resources and finances needed to implement the program
 Establishes the training needs to implement the program
 Involve the communication plan describing how information and resources will be passed
down to other concerned bodies
 Strengthening the established policies, the set school standards, modified school
inspection criterions and the environmental health responsibilities of the school
 Developing the methods to be used when tackling emergency issues and
 Make sure that there is full compliance with state laws, local government requirements,
and regulations.

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The environmental health program can be customized by referring to the implementational
policies of the state. Customized information contains precisely the policies and the standards for
environmental health issues which are; procedures, emergency management protocol and the
common points which can assist the institutions developing and sustaining their ecological health
activities and programs (Frumkin, 2016). The customized health program has been propagated to
schools' heads, and an outreach campaign is organized to reach the community members and
various organizations.
Evaluation of the environmental health program
In the evaluation stage, we need to measure the outcome of the program basing the
arguments in the set objectives to whether the goals and objectives are attained or not. When the
set goals and objectives ate met, then we term the program as successful and hence can be
approved to be worth for curbing the environmental health issues in the state. If the set objectives
and goals are not attained, then that means that either there was an underperformance of the
methods and strategies used (Sansom et al., 2016). Not to mention, the delayed response can be
as a result of the inappropriate timing and employing an inadequate workforce to execute the
task. Communication milestones such as identifying the top priorities for the program and
coming up with the risk management approach can keep the enthusiasm and interest elevated.
The immediate responses, such as increased participation, new partnerships, and advanced steps
that the schools and their leaders incorporate can help in assessing the progress of the program.
Various sights will produce data, regular reports, and other methods that can help
benchmark the processes to gain a lead that is successful for the entire program. The leading
committee can help to protrude the mechanism and timeline for the tracking process. This can
promote in following up the breakdowns and reasons for failure or the reasons for success

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(Lundgren & McMakin, 2018). This information can then be used by the state to establish a
proper decision, and to identify strengths, weaknesses the gaps in the entire program.
Conclusion
When the planning, implementation, and evaluation steps and process have been
successfully attained. The program can then be forwarded for piloting stage before broad
deployment. The application will significantly depend on state program goals and objectives. In
overview, the implementation of the program has to incorporate a variety of approaches like,
availing the information to the environmental directors and institution heads and then to the
general public. If the state is expanding the already established program for schools and other
institutions, then the implementation process must involve sharing information about the
program with the community member and other stakeholders involved. Sensitization and public
outreach will perform a bridging role to unify the participating organs and institutions affected.
The aim is to help the community to attain an improved environmental condition that supports
healthy living.

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