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education for health - correct answer ✔✔Is one of the potent methodologies for information dissemination. It promotes the partnership of both the family members and health workers in the promotion of health as well as prevention of illness. education for health - correct answer ✔✔Is one of the potent methodologies for information dissemination. It promotes the partnership of both the family members and health workers in the promotion of health as well as prevention of illness. locally endemic disease control - correct answer ✔✔The control of endemic disease focuses on the prevention of its occurrence to reduce morbidity rate. Example Malaria Control and Schistosomiasis Control extended program on immunization - correct answer ✔✔This program exists to control the occurrence of preventable illnesses especially of children below 6 years old. Immunizations on poliomyelitis, measles, tetanus, diphtheria and other preventable disease are given for free by the government and ongoing program of the DOH maternal and child health and family planning - correct answer ✔✔The mother and child are the most delicate members of the community. So the protection of the mother and child to illness and other risks would ensure good health for the community. The goal of Family Planning includes spacing of children and responsible parenthood. environmental sanitation - correct answer ✔✔is defined as the study of all factors in the man's environment, which exercise or may exercise deleterious effect on his well-being and survival. environmental sanitation and promotion of safe water supply - correct answer ✔✔Water is a basic need for life and one factor in man's environment. Water is necessary for the maintenance of healthy lifestyle. Safe Water and Sanitation is necessary for basic promotion of health.

nutrition and promotion of adequate food supply - correct answer ✔✔One basic need of the family is food. And if food is properly prepared then one may be assured a healthy family. There are many food resources found in the communities but because of faulty preparation and lack of knowledge regarding proper food planning, Malnutrition is one of the problems that we have in the country. treatment of communicable diseases and common illness - correct answer ✔✔The diseases spread through direct contact pose a great risk to those who can be infected. Tuberculosis is one of the communicable diseases continuously occupies the top ten causes of death. Most communicable diseases are also preventable. The Government focuses on the prevention, control and treatment of these illnesses. supply of essential drugs - correct answer ✔✔This focuses on the information campaign on the utilization and acquisition of drugs. In response to this campaign, the GENERIC ACT of the Philippines is enacted. It includes the following drugs: Cotrimoxazole, Paracetamol, Amoxycillin, Oresol, Nifedipine, Rifampicin, INH (isoniazid) and Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol, Streptomycin, Albendazole, Quinine Accessibility, availability, affordability and acceptability, appropriateness of health services - correct answer ✔✔4 A's planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating - correct answer ✔✔levels of decision-making partnership between the community and the agencies found in the community; social mobilization and decentralization. - correct answer ✔✔part of people's participation self-reliance - correct answer ✔✔Through community participation and cohesiveness of people's organization they can generate support for health care through social mobilization, networking and mobilization of local resources. Leadership and management skills should be developing among these people. Existence of sustained health care facilities managed by the people is some of the major indicators that the community is leading to self-reliance. good health - correct answer ✔✔is manifested by the progressive improvements in the living conditions and quality of life enjoyed by the community residents development - correct answer ✔✔is the quest for an improved quality of life for all. _________ is multidimensional. It is measured by the ability of people to satisfy their basic needs.

social mobilization - correct answer ✔✔It enhances people participation or governance, support system provided by the Government, networking and developing secondary leaders. Decentralization - correct answer ✔✔This ensures empowerment and that empowerment can only be facilitated if the administrative structure provides local level political structures with more substantive responsibilities for development initiators. This also facilities proper allocation of budgetary resources. barangay health workers - correct answer ✔✔trained community health workers or health auxiliary volunteers or traditional birth attendants or healers intermediate level health workers - correct answer ✔✔include the Public Health Nurse, Rural Sanitary Inspector and midwives.