Primary Health Care in Action

Question: Discuss about the Primary Health Care in Action. Answer: Education is constantly being recognised to be a social determinant of health. Education is a major social determinant of health as it plays an important role in an individuals well-being, physical and mental. Education has a deep impact on the lives of people and shapes up the perceptions of individuals regarding healthcare and diseases. Adequate education is reflected at all stages of life through the decisions taken regarding healthcare, and it has been found that education increases healthy behaviours and brings improvement in the health outcomes. Early education is crucial as it sets the ground for a healthy life. After a strong ground for early education, research has indicated that with more education the life span of an individual increases. This is so because higher education can play a role in increasing the capacity to make better decisions regarding health and allows the individuals to access to best personal and social resources (Shankar et al., 2013). Two social determinants of health that influenced health outcomes for the children attending school from the video are social exclusion and early life. The process of social exclusion and the limit to which relative deprivation has an impact on the society are a major determinant of health. Harm to an individuals health is not only due to material deprivation but also due to psychological and social problems that arise in the social context. Poverty, homelessness and discrimination are major factors that lead to social exclusion. Rejection of people who are from certain cultural and ethnic backgrounds have a wide impact on how an individual is given access to basic amenities in life (Braveman Gottlieb, 2014). In the present context of the video, the children have not been subjected to social exclusion. On the contrary, a suitable environment for social inclusion has had an impact on the lives of the children through integration into the social context. They are being constantly invo lved in the decisions taken in the Burringurrah community. In addition, there is no form of racial discrimination or bias that can be harmful to children's development. The second social determinant is an early life that plays a crucial role in the lives of the children attending school. Emotional support along with motivation and encouragement are the key driving factors for development and attitudes towards life and health. Such form of care paves the way for physical and cognitive health and reduces the chances of poor emotional and cognitive functioning (Vive et al., 2013). Parents and teachers have the leading role in this regard in the video who deliver the much-needed care and support to the children of the community. Primary health care is responsible for promoting wellness and health and aids in preventing poor health outcomes and illness. Primary healthcare is more about the delivery of healthcare services and aims for creating the environment for helping people to stay healthy. The objective is to extend the reach of access to healthcare to those who need. Primary healthcare is guided by a number of principles. These are accessibility, public and community participation, health promotion, appropriate utilisation of technology and intersectoral collaboration. The two primary health care principles guided in the project are community and public participation and health promotion. Public participation refers to the involvement of the community and the resources available for promotion of health and well-being of the individuals in the community. Advocates of high level public involvement have the opinion that public services are the voluntery initiatives of the people and they play a major role a s they shape up the lives of the individuals of a community, preferably by a fully representative sample. These are beneficial for addressing the issues arising in the community in relation to health mostly at the grass root level (McMurray Clendon, 2015).. The principle of health promotion is based on the provision for helping the community to enable the socioeconomic conditions to be more strong (Drummond et al., 2015). In the video, it has been found that a positive approach to the better primary health of the school children is taken up by the community as a whole. Mark who is a teacher, Jack who is the land custodian, Rochelle, Gale and Robert who are parents, Charlie who is the community elder all have their own set of contributions towards the health promotion of the children. They make sure that the children have adequate access to the resources and proper allocation of funding takes place. Continued progress is the overall aim they have. Poster- The poster is targeted to the Indigenous Australians for spreading awareness about health eating habits in case of diabetes. A large section of the population does not have adequate knowledge about heath consumption of food if they re suffering from high blood glucose level. The presented poster would enable them to lead a healthy life with suitable diet consumption. References Braveman, P., Gottlieb, L. (2014). The social determinants of health: it's time to consider the causes of the causes. Public health reports, 129(1_suppl2), 19-31. Drummond, M. F., Sculpher, M. J., Claxton, K., Stoddart, G. L., Torrance, G. W. (2015). Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes. Oxford university press. McMurray, A., Clendon, J. (2015).Community health and wellness: Primary health care in practice. 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