The Importance Of Primary Health Care

ACCESSIBILITY

Primary health care was established to cater to the needs of everyone. In 1978 Alma Ata declaration was signed by the members of world health organisation (WHO), to ensure that everyone gets access to good primary health care. The importance of primary health care is having an essential approach to health and the community’s development, and to reduce differences and to improve the people 's well-being (Alma Ata, 1978). The health care service should be accessible, closer and able to cater to individuals, families and the community using the New Zealand healthcare system. New Zealand healthcare system policy states that Primary health organisations (PHOs) are funded by district health boards (DHBs) to ensure the provision of essential

Alma Ata 1978 states that Primary health care is essential to the people living in communities and should be accessible to the members of the community, their families and individuals, and at a cost that the given country can afford. This is why healthy village action zone (HVAZ) is funded by the Auckland district health board (ADHB), 3 primary health organisations (PHO) and the Tongan health society. The funds from the DHB goes through the PHO to pay for the salaries of the nurses, the nutritionists, health care workers and the community co-ordinator (Kai Tiaki, 2010). Healthy village action zone (HVAZ) is an organisation created in 2008 to cater to the rising health issues of the pacific island people. They deal with clients in 5 zones and are working together with 42 parishes around Auckland. The pacific people being obese or overweight, this causes them a lot of health issues and most of them cannot afford to go to the doctors, so their health issues stay undiagnosed. The outcomes of HVAZ were to be able to give free checkups, nutrition information, and exercise to all the participating parishes. The nurses are flexible, and this organization is “run by the people

This was divided into 3 parts, Better this was to ensure that primary (based in the community) and secondary (based in the hospital), working professionally together by sharing the patient’s information and to ensure that the patients get good service (Ministry of Health, 2011). Sooner, this was to create less waiting time for patients by ensuring the service given to the community by their (GP) general practitioners ran smoothly between different health services and also working as part of a team (Ministry of Health, 2011). A More Convenient way to cater to patients needs by sharing their information and working together and to ensure that their needs are taken care of, and moving more services closer to the communities (Ministry of Health, 2011). New Zealand initiative was to launch a number of health and primary health care systems which were based in the communities, that included general practitioner, nurses and other health groups (Ministry of Health, 2011). Alma Ata (1978) states that health care centres should be closer to where people live and work, that’s what HVAZ had achieved by being able to go to assess the community where they will be socially comfortable. HVAZ nurses provided better, sooner and more convenient services by getting to the community and assessing their health issues through their churches a place that was closer to them. They have been able to get