Primary Care - The Place to Identify and Deal with Social Determinants

 

Primary health care (PHC) is the frontline care of the health care system that is comprehensive and coordinated. PHC provides multidisciplinary, patient-centered care with a focus on both the treatment and prevention of various conditions. It is the first point of contact to keep people well and improve their quality of life. A strong, accessible PHC system reduces pressure on hospitals by supporting people to manage their health issues in the society. The ultimate goal of primary health care is better health for all.

ParCare Community Health Network is multi-specialty healthcare center committed to providing the best care for our patients, educating health professionals and leaders for the future, pursuing discovery research in all of its forms, including basic, clinical, and population-based research, and serving our community.

ParCare's network includes outstanding doctors who specialize in primary care, internal medicine, dermatology, physical therapy, and pediatrics.

Primary health care (PHC) represents the first link through which the patient enters the health system and constitutes, a service essential accessible to all individuals and families in the community through media acceptable to them, with their full participation and at an affordable cost for the community and the country. PHC must be able to offer services according to the priority needs of the population it serves and respond to most health problems. For this, it is essential to consider the factors that determine the health-disease process as a whole and therefore coordinate their actions with socio-health and extra-health sectors.

The characteristics that govern PHC activities are accessibility, coordination, comprehensiveness and longitudinality. Accessibility is understood as the ability to mitigate organizational, economic, social and cultural barriers that prevent the population from approaching the health service. Comprehensiveness refers to the ability to solve most health problems, for which it is necessary to coordinate actions with other social sectors (coordination) and that the health problems of a patient are monitored by the same health professionals (longitudinality).

ParCare Community Health Network dedication to the community is second to none and our standards involve tailoring our services to meet the needs of the culturally diverse and multi-lingual community that we have the privilege of serving.

The services provided by PHC can be classified into two large groups: curative actions and preventive actions. Curative measures are simply the actions carried out to solve health problems on demand, mainly acute conditions. On the other hand, the preventive perspective of this level of care means a more comprehensive process, in which an analysis of the health situation of the population is first carried out - field work being necessary to correctly determine personal risk factors, family and community- thus managing to identify the health problems of greater importance and more likely to be solved, to later establish an implementation plan aimed at preventing the appearance of diseases and their complications.

The levels of prevention that are carried out by the PHC are four. The primary level is made up of actions aimed at the entire population with the aim of preventing the appearance of risk factors for health. At the primary level, the objective is that those people who already have some risk factor can prevent the appearance of diseases. In patients who have an established disease, secondary prevention aims to avoid the appearance of complications caused by it. Tertiary prevention would represent the set of actions aimed at reducing the prevalence of chronic disabilities and minimizing functional disability caused by the established disease. Finally, more recently a fourth level of prevention has been considered, aimed at mitigating or avoiding the consequences of unnecessary or excessive interventions by the health system.

ParCare Community Health Network provides the highest quality preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, under the supervision of qualified physicians. At ParCare Community Health Network our approach to treating patients is truly about creating relationships and caring for the whole person. We know the importance of listening with an understanding ear, showing compassion, and holding ourselves accountable. The integrity of our doctors and staff comes from being a team of culturally diverse professionals who share a common goal of providing the highest quality health care available.