Alliance for Healthy Cities

This individual reflection on the group work will present how I have seen the application of the principles of Primary Health Care (PHC) through the roles of the community health workers (CHW) in making health care more accessible. In addition, some strategies will be suggested to address the critical bottlenecks that hinder the effectiveness of the CHWs. Having the experience of working as a District Health Officer, this reflection will highlight most significant areas that I feel require attention

The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 had significant consequences on health care delivery in Australia, facilitating the introduction of primary health care (PHC) in Australia. PHC refers to an “integral” health care approach (World Health Organization [WHO], 1978), defined through its principles of accessibility, public participation, health promotion, intersectoral collaboration and appropriate technology (Downey & Westera, 2009). Relations between obesity, being a National Health Priority Area (NHPA)

Unlike America where we are considered a developed country, many parts of the world are still considered as developing countries. These countries are called developing countries because they lack political stability and proper economic development. Countries in the South East Asia and parts of Africa are all categorized as developing countries. All these countries share one major element in common—poverty. Without essential resources, many people living in these countries are living in poverty. Poverty

Adequate provision of health services in low and middle-income countries poses a considerable challenge to governments of the same. Global health policy is currently shifting from centering around older top-down and vertical disease programmes, to more horizontally integrated programmes that are re-focusing on Primary Health Care. ‘Community participation’ is a popular concept, where involvement of the community is considered one of the “foundational principles “ of Primary health care (Bath and

Introduction: A community is a social unit of any size that shares common values, or that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a village or town). It is a group of people who are connected by durable relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties, and who usually define that relationship as important to their social identity and practice. A safe house is, in a generic sense, a secret place for sanctuary or suitable to hide persons from the law, hostile actors or actions, or from

ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) in Hindi means ‘hope’ and is a special program initiated by the government of India for promoting suitable health care in rural parts of India. The program was launched in the year 2005 as a part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) in India (ASHA’s, 2016). The key aim of ASHA is “to work with the urban poor to bring about long-term and sustainable transformation to their quality of life” Some of

The country that this author chose to research about is Haiti, which has some major health concerns that are present in the country. Haiti is currently working on improving these health concerns. The topics that were chosen to examine Haiti’s health more in depth was women’s health, sanitation and hygiene, and nutrition. This paper will look further into the health of women in Haiti, as well as the sanitation and water supply and nutrition of the population. This paper will also address the steps

inherited in a family through either biological or psychological way (Rahman et al. 2008); hence, youths who have the family with depression history tend to be more vulnerable and have a higher chance to get depression comparing with children from healthy family (Rice 2010). Therefore, this expo is set up for raising community awareness in the burden of depression and reducing the growth of emotional and developmental dysfunction in youths and their families through providing a comprehensive research

It includes five significant action areas in Health Promotion “(build healthy public policy, create supportive environments for health, strengthen community action for health, develop personal skills, and re-orient health services) and three basic HP strategies (to enable, mediate, and advocate)”. The outside circle, originally in red colour, represents the goal of "Building Healthy Public Policies", hence, it symbolises the policy needs to "hold things together". This circle

Be that as it may, developing an ideal healthcare system will call for requisite transformational changes in authenticating the ideological construct of both the primary care and primary medical. In view of the previous studies and comments posted by profound scholars in the nursing mainstream, primary care and primary medical has been in the forefront in championing for transformational changes towards ensuring capacity building and boosting the lifestyle of the humanity. In a strong sense, establishing