Is the Primary Health Care approach and the proposed National Health Insurance the way to achieve Health for All in Cape Town? The 1978 Alma Ata Declaration of the World Health Organisation was aimed at securing optimal health‚ which is the complete psychosocial and physical well-being of every person globally‚ and was based on adequate‚ accessible and affordable Primary Health Care (WHO‚ 1978). “Health for All” is a vision which has subsequently evolved as the goal of the Primary Health Care (PHC)
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The mission of the UHI Community Care Clinic is to promote the well-being of the medically underserved‚ low income neighbors by providing access to quality primary health care for all‚ regardless of race‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ origin‚ sex and age. AGENCY DESCRIPTION: The UHI Community Care Clinic provides free primary health care to low-income‚ uninsured residents of South Florida the past 10 years they are located in Miami Gardens. Although‚ the clinic is located in Miami Gardens patient come as
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tested carefully by the researchers for easy access and usage that it bears directly on the usage to see that no necessary difficulties are introduced. May this research be a successful tool in providing a medical recording system to help the school clinic more effective in service to the institution. Today‚ the technology is get is getting tougher and tougher and business owner need to concentrate more on the business core competence‚ to become successful and gain competitive advantage. One way
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aims to define the term primary health and explain its origins and development; also touching on the impact of primary health on the nursing profession. It will commence with an introduction to primary health and primary health care. Covered in this paper will also be the influence that primary health care has had on nursing and any alterations associated with its implementation. Primary health care aims to provide a health care framework that steps away from the acute care focus and brings to the
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organizations work hard for health in general. Health contains a lot of categories; the most important category is healthcare. There are many types of health care; two of them are Primary care and Acute care. Understanding what is needed to be known about health care are the definitions‚ similarities‚ and differences between Primary care and Acute care. What is health and how it has evolved? All that will be explained as follows. In ancient times Human Beings were using traditional ways to heal the injured
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Assignment 2 Mental Health Policy and Plans Assignment 2 Advocacy for integration of mental health care into primary care and the development of psychiatric rehabilitation services and programs The development of integration of mental health care in primary care is crucial for diverse reasons which include the fact that: - Mental diseases are frequent and create substantial social‚ professional and economical loss to society‚ namely in Portugal 1 in each 5 people
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The Mayo Clinic is well known for treating international leader‚ Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo‚ the president of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. The Mayo clinic provided care to patients for nearly a hundred years. It was founded by a family of physicians named “Mayo.” The Mayo family created an international legacy. They traveled the world to compare notes and surgical approaches with physicians and returned with international patients. Mayo Clinic has used word of mouth marketing to uphold its
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Several existing problems precipitated the creation of the triage system implemented by Kathryn Angell in an effort to deliver improved medical care. The main problem was a lack of coordination in service delivery. This lack of coordination caused excessive wait times on the order of anywhere from 23 to 40 minutes to see a nurse‚ 40 to 50 minutes to see a doctor‚ and as long as 55 minutes to get a prescription filled. The practice of all nurses being involved initially in seeing all patients caused
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The article I chose is “Nurse-led detox in primary care. In my paper I will be discussing how alcohol detoxification works in London in a primary care setting. In the case of this article the primary care setting is considered working together with a nurse specialist in a community detox center. In most cases a referral is made by the primary care physician to the nurse specialist. There are two different referral categories’ that are used in London. The first referral is for patients with
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A better future: Primary Health Care Primary health care is a term used to describe a system where a patient’s health care needs are attended to by the most appropriately trained individual. This method of health care delivery has been called a “team based approach” (Health Canada‚ 2006). Instead of seeing the doctor for every health concern‚ other health professionals such as nurse practitioners‚ pharmacists‚ dieticians or physiotherapists may be called upon to take care of your concerns. In this
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