Principles of phc

2. PRINCIPLES OF PHC
PRESNTED TO: DR. ARIF
PRESENTED BY: GROUP #2
AROUBA HANIF #09
AYESHA JALIL #10
NIMRA SADDDIQUE #14
MUHAMMAD RASHID #12

3. Table of contents
• What is PHC?
• Objectives of PHC
• Principles of PHC
• Pillars of PHC
• Why PHC is important?
• What are the challenges for implementation of PHC?
• What are the mitigation measures for ensuring effective
PHC?

4. What is PHC?
“Primary health care is the health care that is available to
people at first level of health care.”
According to WHO:
PHC is a basic health care and is a whole of society
approch to a healthy well-being,focused on needs and
priorities of individuals communities and families.

5. Objectives of PHC
• To increase the Programme and services that affect
healthy growth and development of children and youth.
• To boost participation of community With government
to improve the health of their community.
• To develop community satisfaction with PHC system.

6. Principles of PHC
• Safety
• Dignity
• Privacy
• Communication
• Independence
• Person and family centered
• Continuous
• Comprehensive and equitable
• Team based and collaborative
• Coordinated and Integrated
• Accesible
• High value

8. Pillars of PHC
• Community participation
• Inter-sectoral coordination
• Appropriate technology
• Support mechanism made available

10. Why is PHC important?
• Primary Health Care focuses more on quality health service
effectiveness.
• Primary Health Care focuses on “Health for all”
• Primary Health Care integrates preventive, promotive,
rehabilitative and palliative health care services.
• Primary Health Care encourages new connection and
• It includes services that are readily accessible and available

12. Challenges
• Poor staffing and shortage of health personnel
• Inadequate technology and equipment
• Challenging geographic distribution
• Poor quality of health care services
• Lack of financial support in health care programs
• Lack of community participation
• Lack of intersectoral collaboration

13. Mitigation Measures
• Encouraging community participation through rapport
communication and sharing objectives and benefits of
• Developing quality assurance mechanisms through the
various indicators and standards.
• Development of clinical guidelines including the
drugs list
• Allocating resources as per the need of the central,
level.

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