Primary Health Care Concepts

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Primary Health Care concepts Primary Health Care refers to “health care services that are provided outside the hospital”(fact sheet 1 2009). A general practitioner is a primary health care provider, as are nurses, pharmacists and allied health providers such as dentists, podiatrists and so on. All over the world, primary health care is regarded as a major contributing factor of the community health. In fact, the World Health Organization has declared that “the ultimate goal of primary health care is better health for all.”(WHO 1974) Likewise for the Tomuka settlement in Lautoka, which is having lot of diseases and infection such as scabies, nits and lice and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STIs) among the young generation. As population of the community s quite high there is a legitimate need of the Primary Health Care services. The “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO, 1974) of the Tomuka settlement is very important since the young generations are the ones who are suffering the most. Below the discussion will be based on the some of the health determinants and how it affects the population of Tomuka settlement. Some of the contributing health determents are environment, genetics, their income level, education level and relationships. To begin with, education is the major factor that contributes to the health status of this settlement and “Education contributes to health and disease free life by equipping people with knowledge and skills for problem solving, and helps provide a sense of control and mastery over life circumstances. It increases opportunities for job and income security, and job satisfaction. It also improves people's ability to access and understand information to help keep them healthy”. In Tomuka settlement there is the high number of school dropouts among
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