Friday, May 14, 2021

Health unit 1

 Part 9



Health promotions and preventions

Health promotion is a process of strengthen the individual or host and prevent the occurrence of the disease.

Health promotion involves the population as compared to focusing on people at risk.

The Principles

The focus of health promotion is an access to health services.

Development and improvement that is suitable to health.

Information and education are necessary component of health promotion.

Diagnostic Services

It facilitates the provision of timely,cost effective and highly quality diagnostic care in safe and secure environment.

These services function in the setting of ambulatory care, acute care, mental health, geriatric care and rehabilitation care.

Treatment Services

Treatment services are provided by various categories of health institutions.

* There are general hospitals, teaching hospital, region state hospital, district hospital.

* They also include public health services with available treatment Services.

* Emergency intervention and services should be integrated with primary care .

Rehabilitation

* Is a process used to give a healing touch to the patients who are suffering from physical or mental disorders.

* Rehabilitation program helps the patients to get back to his/her normal life.

Health Care Agency

Health Care Agency are established to India to provide health services to meet health needs, demand of individual.

Health Care services in India are delivered by both public and private sectors.

Public Agency

1. Public health Care centre

2. Hospitals

a) Rural hospitals

b) District hospitals

c) Teaching hospitals

3. Health insurance schemes

a) Employees State 

b) Central Government health schemes (CGHS)

4. Other agencies

 a)  Defensive services

b)  Railways


Private sectors

1) Hospitals

Acute in patients services

Intensive care

Emergency care

Surgical care 

Special care 

Special therapies

Councelling services

2. Long term care facilities

Intermediate and long term care for people with chronic illness.

Nurses provide care to the patients and support family members.

3. Outpatient setting

Treatment check up , follow up are the main services provided at outpatient setting.

These include clinics , mobile, treatment and diagnostic services.

4. Hospitals/institutions for illness

The main goal of the institution is to improve quality of the life until death.

Nurses provide pain control, comfort by using therapies.

E.g. yoga, massage, meditation




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