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CHAPTER 1: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
❖ COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING — The synthesis of nursing practice and public health
practice.
❖ MAJOR GOAL OF CHN
• Preserve the health of the community and surrounding population by focusing on
health promotion and health maintenance of individual, family and group within
community.
• Thus CHN/ PHN is associated with health and identification of population at risks
rather than with an episodic response to patient demand.
❖ MISSION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• Social justice that entitles all people to basic necessities, such as adequate income
and health protection, and accepts collective burdens to make possible.
❖ DEFINITION OF HEALTH ACCORDING TO:
• WHO
▪ “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
• Murray
▪ “a state of well-being in which the person is able to use purposeful,
adaptive responses and processes physically, mentally, emotionally,
spiritually, and socially.”
• Pender
▪ “actualization of inherent and acquired human potential through goal-
directed behavior, competent self-care, and satisfying relationship with
others.”
• Orem
▪ “a state of person that is characterized by soundness or wholeness of
developed human structures and of bodily and mental functioning.”
❖ SOCIAL
• “of or relating to living together in organized groups or similar close
aggregates”
❖ SOCIAL HEALTH
• Connotes community vitality and is a result of positive interaction among groups
within the community with an emphasis on health promotion and illness
prevention.
❖ COMMUNITY
• Seen as a group or collection of locality-based individuals, interacting in social
units, and sharing common interests, characteristics, values, and/ or goals.
❖ DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY ACCORDING TO:

• Allender
▪ “A collection of people who interact with one another and whose common
interests or characteristics form the basis for a sense of unity or
belonging.”
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• Lundy and Janes
▪ “A group of people who share something in common and interact with
one another, who may exhibit a commitment with one another and may
share a geographic boundary.”
• Clark
▪ “A group of people who share common interests, who interact with each
other, and who function collectively within a defined social structure to
address common concerns.”
• Shuster and Goeppinger
▪ “A locality-based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations
reflecting society’s institutions, informal groups, and aggregates.”
❖ TWO MAIN TYPES OF COMMUNITIES (Maurer & Smith, 2009)

• Geopolitical Communities AKA Territorial Communities
▪ Most traditionally recognized.
▪ Defined or formed by both natural and man-made boundaries and include
barangays, municipalities, cities, provinces, regions, and nations.
• Phenomenological Communities AKA Functional Communities
▪ Refer to relational, interactive groups, in which the place or setting is
more abstract, and people share a group perspective or identity based on
culture, values, history, interest, and goals.
❖ POPULATION
• Typically used to denote a group of people having common personal or
environmental characteristics.
❖ AGGREGATES
• Subgroups or subpopulations that have some common characteristics or
concerns.
❖ DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
1. Income and Social Status
• Higher-income and social status are linked to better health. The greater the gap
between the richest and poor health, the greater differences in health.
2. Education
• Low education levels are linked with poor health, more stress and lower self-
confidence.
3. Physical Environment
• Safe water and clean air, healthy workplaces, safe houses communities and
roads all contribute to good health.
4. Employment and Working Conditions
• People in employment are healthier, particularly those who have control over
their working conditions.
5. Social Support Networks
• Greater support from families, friends and communities is linked to better
health.
6. Culture
• Customs and traditions, and the beliefs of the family and community all affect
health.
7. Genetics

•Inheritance plays a part in determining lifespan, healthiness, and the likelihood
of developing illnesses.
8. Personal Behavior and Coping Skills
• Balanced eating, keeping active, smoking, drinking and how we deal with life’s
stresses and challenges all affect health.
9. Health Services
• Access and use of services that prevent and treat disease influences health.
10. Gender
• Men and women suffer from different types of diseases at different ages.
❖ INDICATORS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS

• National Epidemiology Center of DOH, PSA, and Local Health Centers/Offices/
Departments
▪ Provide morbidity, mortality, and other health status related data.
• Local Health Centers/Offices/Departments
▪ responsible for collecting morbidity and mortality data and forwarding
the information to the higher level of health, such as Provincial Health
office.
• Nurses should participate in investigative efforts to determine what is precipitating the
increased disease rate and work to remedy the identified threats or risks.
❖ DEFINITION AND FOCUS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

• DEFINITION OF PUBLIC HEALTH ACCORDING TO:
▪ C. E. WINSLOW
• “Public health is the science and art of:
1. preventing disease,
2. prolonging life, and
3. promoting health and efficiency through organized community
effort for:
i. sanitation of the environment,
ii. control communicable infections,
iii. education of the individual in personal hygiene,
iv. organization of medical and nursing services for the early
diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and
v. “development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a
standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health,
so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to
realize his birthright of health and longevity.” (Hanlon)
• PUBLIC HEALTH
▪ Key Phrase Definition: “through organized community effort”.
▪ Connotes organized, legislated, and tax-supported efforts that serve all people
through health departments or related governmental agencies.
• 9 ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH FUNCTIONS (ACCORDING TO WHO REGIONAL OFFICE

FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC)
1. Health situation monitoring and analysis
2. Epidemiological surveillance/ disease prevention and control

3. Development of policies and planning in public health
4. Strategic management of health systems and services for population health
gain
5. Regulation and enforcement to protect public health
6. Human resources development and planning in public health
7. Health promotion, social participation and empowerment
8. Ensuring the quality of personal and population-based health service
9. Research, development, and implementation of innovative public health
solution
• COMMUNITY HEALTH
o Extends the realm of public health to include organized health efforts at the
community level through both government and private efforts
• HEALTH PROMOTION AND LEVELS OF PREVENTION

o Health Promotion
▪ Activities enhance resources directed at improving well-being.
o Disease Prevention
▪ Activities protect people from disease and effects of disease.
• LEAVELL AND CLARK’S THREE LEVELS OF PREVENTION

1. Primary Prevention
- Relates to activities directed at preventing a problem before it occurs
by altering susceptibility or reducing exposure for susceptible
individuals.
2. Secondary Prevention
- Early detection and prompt intervention during the period of early
disease pathogenesis.
- Implemented after a problem has begun but before signs and
symptoms appear and targets populations who have risk factors
(Keller).
3. Tertiary Prevention
- Targets populations that have experienced disease or injury and
focuses on limitations of disability and rehabilitation.
- Aim: Reduce the effects of disease and injury and to restore individuals
to their optimum level of functioning.
• DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING ACCORDING TO:
▪ AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION (1980)
• Global or umbrella term; broader and more general specialty area that
encompasses subspecialties that include public health nursing, school
nursing, occupational health nursing, and other developing fields of
practice, such as home health, hospice care, and independent nurse
practice
• “the synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice applied to
promoting and preserving health of the populations.” (ANA, 1980)
• PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
o A component or subset of CHN
o The synthesis of public health and nursing practice

• PHN according to FREEMAN (1963):
o Public Health Nursing may be defined as the field of professional practice in
nursing and in public health in which technical nursing, interpersonal, analytical,
and organizational skills are applied to problems of health as they affect the
community.
▪ These skills are applied in concert with those of other persons engaged
in health care, through comprehensive nursing care of families and other
groups and through measures for evaluation or control of threats to
health, for health education of the public and for the mobilization of the
public for health action.
• PHN according to ANA (1996):
o “The practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using
knowledge from nursing, social and public health sciences”
o “Population-focused, with the goals of the promoting health and preventing
disease and disability for all people through the creation of conditions in which
people can be healthy.”
• Community-Based Nursing
o Application of the nursing process in caring for individuals, families and group
where they live, work go to go school, or they move through the health care
system
o Setting-specific, and the emphasis is on acute and chronic care and includes
practice areas such as home health nursing and nursing in outpatient or
ambulatory setting.
❖ CHN VS. COMMUNITY-BASED NURSING

• CHN
▪ emphasizes preservation and protection of heath
▪ the primary client is the community
• Community-based Nursing
▪ Emphasizes on managing acute and chronic
▪ the primary clients are the individual and the family
❖ POPULATION-FOCUSED NURSING
• Concentrates on specific groups of people and focuses on health promotion and
disease prevention, regardless of geographical location (Baldwin et al., 1998)
• Focused Practice:
1. Focuses on the entire population
2. Based on assessment of the populations’ health status
3. Considers the broad determinants of health
4. Emphasizes all levels of prevention
5. Intervenes with communities, systems, individuals and families
• Goal – promote healthy communities
❖ CHN PRACTICE REQUIRES THE FF. TYPES OF DATA FOR SCIENTIFIC APPROACH AND
POPULATION:
1. The epidemiology or body of knowledge of a particular problem and its solution
2. Information about the community

TYPES OF INFORMATION SOURCES
Demographic Vital Statistics; census
Groups at High Risk Health statistics; disease statistics
Services/Providers Available City directors, phone books, local/regional social
workers, list of low income providers, CH nurse
❖ Family – Basic unit of care in CHN

❖ Individual – Focus in the clinic or health center
❖ THE INTERVENTION WHEEL
•Proposed in the late 1990s by nurses from the Minnesota Department of Health
▪ To describe the breadth and scope of public health nursing practice.
▪ Recognized as a framework for community and public health practice
• Consist of 17 health interventions are grouped into 5 wedges
• 3 Important Elements:
▪ It is population-based
▪ It contains 3 levels of practice (Community, Systems, and Individual/Family)
▪ It identifies and defines 12 public health interventions
▪
❖ 17 PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AND DEFINITION (Keller et al., 2004)
1. Surveillance – Monitors health events
2. Disease and other Health Event Investigation – Systematically gathers and analyzes
data regarding threats to the health of populations
3. Outreach – Locates populations of interests or populations at risk
4. Screening – Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors
5. Case Finding – Identifies risk actors and connects them with resources
6. Referral and Follow-up – Assists individuals and families, families, groups,
organizations ad communities to identify and access necessary resources
7. Case Management – Optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals and families

8. Delegated Functions – Direct care tasks that the nurse carries out
9. Health Teaching – Communicates facts, ideas and skills that change knowledge,
attitudes values, behaviors, and practice
10. Counseling – Establishes an interpersonal relationship; with the intention of increasing
or enhancing their capacity for self-care and coping
11. Consultation – Seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived
problems
12. Collaboration – Commits two or more persons or an organization
13. Coalition Building – Develops alliances among organizations
14. Community Organizing – Helps community groups to identify common problems or
goals mobilizes resources and develop and implement strategies
15. Advocacy – Pleads someone’s cause or acts on someone’s behalf
16. Social Marketing – Utilizes commercial marketing principles for programs
17. Policy Development and Enforcement – Place issues on decision makers’ agendas,
acquires plan of resolution
❖ EMERGING FIELDS OF CHN IN THE PHILIPPINES

• HOME HEALTH CARE
o This practice involves providing nursing care nursing care to individuals and
families in their own places of residence mainly to minimize the effects of illness
and disability.
• HOSPICE HOME CARE
o Homecare rendered to the terminally ill. Palliative care is particularly important
❖ ENTREPRENURSE
o A project initiated by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), in
collaboration with the Board of Nursing of the Philippines, Department of Health,
Philippines Nurses Association and other stakeholders to promote nurse
entrepreneurship by introducing a home health care industry in the Philippines.
o It aims to:
1. Reduce the cost of health care for the countries indigent population by
bringing primary health care services to poor rural communities
2. Maximize employment opportunities for the countries unemployed nurses
3. Utilize the countries unemployed human resources for health for the
delivery of public health services and the achievement of the country’s
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) on maternal and child health,
(DOLE, 2013)
o Main Purpose of Entreprenurse – To deliver home health care services
❖ COMPETENCY STANDARDS IN CHN

1. Safe and Quality Nursing Care
▪ knowledge of health/illness status of the client, sound decision making; safety,
comfort, privacy, administration of meds and health therapeutics and nursing
process.
2. Management of Resources and Environment
▪ organization of workload; use of financial resurces for client care; mechanism
to ensure proper functioning of equipment and maintenance of a safe
environment

3. Health Education
▪ assessment of client’s learning needs; development of health education plan
and learning materials and implementation and evaluation of health education
plan
4. Legal Responsibility
▪ adherence to the nursing laws as well as to national, local and organizational
policies including documentation of care given to clients.
5. Ethicomoral Responsibility
▪ respect for the rights of the client; responsibility and accountability for own
decisions and actions; and adherence to the international and national codes of
ethics for nurses
6. Personal and Professional Development
▪ identification of own learning needs, pursuit of continuing education;
involvement in professional image; positive attitude towards change and
criticism
7. Quality Improvement
▪ data gathering for quality improvement; participation in nursing rounds;
identification and reporting of solutions to identifies problems related to client
care.
8. Research
▪ research-based formulation of solutions to problems in client care and
dissemination and application of research findings
9. Records Management
▪ accurate and updated documentation of client care while observing legal
imperatives and record keeping
10. Communication
▪ uses therapeutic communication techniques, identifies verbal and nonverbal
cues, responds to client needs, while using formal and informal channels of
communication and appropriate information technology
11. Collaboration and Teamwork
▪ establishment of collaborative relationship with colleagues and other members
of health team
❖ HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING IN THE PHILIPPINES

• 1577
o Franciscan FriarJuan Clemente opened medical dispensary in Intramuros for the
indigent
• 1690
o Dominican Father Juan de Pergero worked toward installing a water system in San
Juan del Monte and Manila
• 1805
o Smallpox vaccination was introduced by Francisco de Balmis , the personal physician
of King Charles IV of Spain
• 1876
o First medicos titulares were appointed by the Spanish government

• 1888
o 2-year courses consisting of fundamental medical and dental subjects was first
offered in the University of Santo Tomas. Graduated were known as “cirujanos
ministrantes” and serve as male nurses and sanitation inspectors
• 1901
o United States Philippines Commission, through Act 157, created the Board of Health of
the Philippine Islands with a Commissioner of the Public Health, as its chief executive
officer (now the Department of Health
• Fajardo Act of 1912
o Created sanitary divisions made up of one to four municipalities. Each sanitary division
had a president who had to be a physician
• 1915
o The Philippine General hospital began to extend public health nursing services in the
homes of patients by organizing a unit called Social and Home Care services
• Asociacion Feminista Filipina (1905)
o Lagota de Leche was the first center dedicated to the service of the mothers and
babies
• 1947
o The Department of Health was reorganized into bureaus: quarantine, hospitals that
took charge of the municipal and charity clinics and health with the sanitary divisions
under it.
• 1954
o Congress passed RA 1082 or the Rural Health Act that provided the creation of RHU in
every municipality
• RA 1891
o Enacted in 1957 amended certain provisions in the Rural Health Act
▪ Created 8 categories of rural health units corresponding to the population size
of the municipalities
• RA 7160 (Local Government Code)
o Enacted in 1991, amended that devolution of basic health services including health
services, to local government units and the establishment of a local health board in
every province and city of municipality
• Millennium Development Goals
o Adopted during the world summit in September 2000
• FOURmula One (F1) for health, 2005 and Universal Health Care in 2010 agenda launched in
1999
• Universal Health Care
o Aims to achieve the health system goals of better health outcomes, sustained health
financing, and responsive health system that will provide equitable access to health
care

CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE
❖ HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NURSING THEORY
• Florence Nightingale
− First nurse to formulate a conceptual foundation for nursing practice.
− She believed that clean water, clean linen, access to adequate sanitation and a quiet
environment would improve health outcomes.
• Other early nursing theories were extremely narrow and depicted health care situations
that involved only one nurse and one patient.
− Noticeably, the family and other health care professionals were absent from the
context of the theories.
• From 1980 onwards, several nursing theorists including, Dorothy Johnson, Sister
Callista Roy, Imogene King, Betty Neuman and Jean Watson have included community
perspectives in their definition of health.
❖ HOW THEORY PROVIDES DIRECTION TO NURSING

o Goal of Theory – To improve nursing practice by acting as a guide.
❖ GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY

• General Systems Theory
- the basis, in part, of several nursing theories.
• It is applicable to the different levels of the community health nurse’s clientele:
▪ Individuals
▪ Families
▪ Groups
▪ Aggregates and communities.
• Client
▪ considered as a set of interacting elements that exchange energy, matter or
information with the external environment to exist (Katz and Kahn, 1966; von
Bertalanffy, 1968)
• This theory is useful when:
▪ analyzing interrelationships of the elements within the client and the
environment
• For example: the family has the basic structures that all open
systems have.
o It has boundaries that separate it from its environment.
• Culture and the Family Code dictate the boundaries of the Filipino
Family.
• The Family Environment constitutes everything outside its boundaries
that may affect it; the family home and the community and its
institutions make up the immediate environment and should be
considered in the assessment of family health status.
• The family gets inputs of matter (food, water), energy, and information
from the environment

• OUTPUTS are material products, energy and information that result from the family’s
processing of inputs. Examples are health practices and the health status of the family
members.
• FEEDBACK is the information from the environment directed back to the system, it
allows the system to make the necessary adjustments for better functioning.
o For example: a nurse’s feedback to a mother that her child is underweight
makes the mother more aware of her child’s needs and allows her to take
action.
• SUBSYSTEMS are the components of a system that interact to accomplish their own
purpose. (Family members)
• SUPRASYSTEMS are a bigger system composed of families who interrelate with and
affect one another. (Families)
❖ SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

• It is based on the belief that learning takes place in a social context; people learn from
one another and learning is promoted by modeling or observing other people.
• It assumes that all personas are thinking beings that are capable of making decisions
and acting according to expected consequences of their behavior.
• The environment affects learning but learning outcomes depend on the learner’s
individual characteristics.
• Application of the theory can be done by:
− Catching the person’s attention with different strategies
− Promoting retention of learning
− Providing opportunities for reproduction or imitation of the procedures
− Motivating the person by explaining the benefits possible by practicing the
behavior
❖ THE HEALTH BELIEF MODEL
• Initially proposed in 1958

• The model provides the basis for much of the practice of health education and
promotion today.
• This model found that information alone is rarely enough to motivate people to act for
their health. Individuals must know what to do and how to do it before they can act.
• Model’s concepts – all relate to the client’s perceptions
• For example:

− The cue to action in the prevention of dengue fever may be provided through an
information campaign.
→ This makes the people in a barangay aware of the disease and that
everyone is susceptible to the possibly fatal disease.
→ The HBM would be used by the nurse to help clients in making behavior
modifications to avoid dengue.
CONCEPT DEFINITION
Perceived Susceptibility → One’s belief regarding the chance of getting
a given condition
Perceived Severity → One’s belief in the seriousness of a given
condition
Perceived Benefits → One’s belief in the ability of an advised
action to reduce the health risk or
seriousness of a given condition
Perceived Barriers → One’s belief regarding the tangible and
psychological costs of an advised action
Cues to an Action → Strategies or conditions in one’s
environment that activate readiness to take
action
Self-Efficacy → One’s confidence in one’s ability to take
action to reduce health risks
❖ MILIO’S FRAMEWORK FOR PREVENTION

• Milio (1976) proposed that health deficits often result from an imbalance between a
population’s health needs and its health sustaining resources.
• She stated that diseases associated with excess occurred in affluent societies
(obesity) and diseases that result from inadequacies in food, shelter and water afflict
the poor. Therefore, poor people in affluent societies experience the least desirable
combination of factors.
• Personal and societal resources affect the range of health promoting or health
damaging choices available to individuals. Personal resources include the individual’s
awareness, knowledge, and health beliefs. Money and time are also personal
resources.
• She proposed that most human beings make the easiest choices available to them
most of the time. Health promoting choices must be more readily available and less
costly than health damaging options for individuals to gain health.
• This theory is broader than the HBM, it includes economic, political and environmental
health determinants rather than just the individual’s perceptions.
• This theory encourages the nurse to understand health behaviors in the context of
their societal milieu.

❖ PENDER’S HEALTH PROMOTION MODEL
• The model explores many biopsychosocial factors that influence individuals to pursue
health promotion activities.
• The model depicts complex multidimensional factors which people interact with as
they work to achieve optimum health.
CONSTRUCTS/VARIABLES OF HPM
Individual Characteristics • Each person’s unique characteristics and
and Experiences experiences affect his or her actions. Their effect
depends on the behavior in question
Prior Related Behavior • Prior behaviors influence subsequent behavior
through perceived self-efficacy, benefits,
barriers and affects related to that activity. Habit
is also a strong indicator of future behavior.
Behavior Specific • In the HPM, these variables are considered to be
Cognitions an Affect very significant in behavior motivation. They are
a “core” for intervention because they may be
modified through nursing actions assessment of
the effectiveness of interventions is
accomplished by measuring the change in these
variables.
Perceived Benefits Of • The perceived benefits of a behavior are strong
Action motivators o that behavior. These motivate the
behavior through intrinsic and extrinsic benefits.
Intrinsic benefits include increased energy and
decreased appetite. Extrinsic benefits include
social rewards such as compliments and
monetary rewards.
Perceived Barriers to • Barriers are perceived unavailability,
Action inconvenience, expense, difficulty or time
regarding health behaviors

Perceived Self-Efficacy • Self-efficacy is one’s belief that he or she is
capable of carrying out a health behavior. If one
has high self-efficacy regarding a behavior, one I
more likely to engage in that behavior than if one
has low self-efficacy.
Activity Related Affect • The feelings associated with a behavior will
likely affect whether an individual will repeat or
maintain the behavior
Interpersonal Influences • I the HPM, these are feelings or thoughts
regarding the beliefs or attitudes of others.
Primary influences are family, peers, and health
care providers.
Situational Influences • These are perceived options available, demand
characteristics, and aesthetic features of the
environment where the behavior will take place.
• For example, a lovely day will increase the
probability of one taking a walk; the fire code will
prevent one from smoking indoors.
Commitment to a Plan of • Pender states that “commitment to a plan of
Action action initiates a behavioral event”. This
commitment will compel one into the behavior
until completed, unless a competing demand or
preference intervenes.
Immediate Competing • These are alternative behaviors that one
Demands and considers as possible optional behaviors
Preferences immediately prior to engaging in the intended,
planned behavior. One has little control over
competing demands, but one has great control
over competing preferences
Health Promoting • This is the goal or outcome of the HPM. The aim
Behavior of health promoting behavior is the attainment of
positive health outcomes
❖ THE TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL

• This model combines several theories of intervention.
• It is based on the assumption that behavior change takes place over time, and
progresses through stages
• Each stage is stable and is open to change; Meaning one may stop in one stage,
progress to the next stage or return to a previous stage.
• Change is difficult. People may resist change for many reasons. Change may be
unpleasant, require giving up pleasure, be painful, stressful, etc.
CORE CONSTRUCTS OF THE TTM

STAGES OF CHANGE DESCRIPTION
Precontemplation • Individual has no intention to take action toward
behavior change in the next 6 months. May be in
this phase due to a lack of information about the
consequences of the behavior or due to failure on
previous attempts at change.
Contemplation • The individual has some intention to take action
toward behavior change in the next 6 months.
Weighing pros and cons to change.
Preparation • The individual intends to take action within the next
month and has taken steps toward behavior
change. Has a plan of action.
Action • The individual has changed overt behavior for less
than 6 months. Has changed behavior sufficiently
to reduce risk of disease
Maintenance • The individual has changed overt behavior for more
than 6 months. Strives to prevent relapse. The
phases may last months to years.
Decisional balance
Pros The benefits of behavior change
Cons The costs of behavior change
❖ PRECEDE-PROCEED MODEL

• It provides a model for community assessment, health education planning, and
evaluation.
• PRECEDE, which stands for predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling constructs in
educational diagnosis and evaluation is used for community diagnosis.
• PROCEED, stands for policy, regulatory, and organizational constructs in education and
environmental development, is a model for implementing and evaluating health
programs based on PRECEDE.
• Predisposing factors: people’s characteristics that motivate them toward health-
related behavior.
• Enabling factors: conditions in people and the environment that facilitate or impede
health related behavior.
• Reinforcing factors: feedback given by support persons or groups resulting from the
performance of health-related behavior
CHAPTER 3: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

❖ SEPTEMBER 6-12, 1978
o First International Conference for PHC at Alma Ata, USSR, Russia
❖ Letter of Instruction (LOI) 949
o legal basis for PHC in the Philippines
o signed by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos
o THEME: Health in the Hands of the People by 2020
❖ Primary Health Care (Definition)
o the essential care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the
community through their full preparation.
❖ Universal Goal
o Health For All by the Year 2000
- this is achieved through community and individual self-reliance
❖ 5 KEY ELEMENTS
1. Reducing exclusion and social disparities in health (universal coverage).
2. Organizing health services around people’s needs and expectations (health service
reforms).
3. Integrating health into all sectors (public policy reforms).
4. Pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue (leadership reforms).
5. Increasing stakeholder participation.
❖ 8 Essential Health Services
→ E - Education for health
→ L - Locally endemic disease control
→ E - Expanded program for immunization
→ M - Maternal and child health including responsible parenthood
→ E - Essential drugs
→ N - Nutrition
→ T - Treatment of communicable and noncommunicable diseases
→ S - Safe water and sanitation
❖ KEY PRINCIPLES
1. 4 A’s
▪ Accessibility
o distance/travel time required to get to a health care facility/service.

o the home must be w/in 30 min. from the Brgy. health stations
▪ Affordability
o Consideration of the individual, family, community, and government can
afford the services
o The out-of-pocket expense determines the affordability of health care.
o In the Philippines, government insurance is covered through philhealth
▪ Acceptability
o Health care services are compatible with the culture and traditions of the
population.
▪ Availability
o A question whether the health service is offered in health care facilities or
is provided on a regular and organized manner.
 Examples:
o Botika ng Bayan
▪ Ensures the availability and accessibility of affordable essential
drugs.
▪ It sells low-priced generic home remedies, OTC and common
antibiotics.
o Ligtas sa Tigdas ang Pinas
▪ Mass door-to-door measles immunization campaign.
▪ Target age: 9 months-below 8 years old
2. SUPPORT MECHANISM
▪ There are 3 major resources:
i. People
ii. Government
iii. Private Sectors (e.g. NGO, church…)
3. MULTISECTORAL APPROACH
▪ Intrasectoral linkages (Two-way referral system)
o communication, cooperation, and collaboration within the health sectors.
▪ Intersectoral Linkages
o between the health sector and other sectors like education, agriculture,
and local government. officials.
4. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
▪ A process in which people identify the problems and needs and assumes
responsibilities themselves to plan, manage, and control.
5. EQUITABLEDISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH RESOURCES
▪ 2 DOH programs to ensure equitable distribution:
i. Doctor to the Barrio (DTTB) Program
- the deployment of doctors to municipalities that are w/o doctors.
- deployed to unserved, economically depressed 5th or 6th class
municipalities for 2 years.
ii. Registered Nurses Health Enhancement and Local Service (RN HEALS)
- training and program for unemployed nurse
- deployed to unserved, economically depressed municipalities for
1 year.
6. APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
▪ Health Technology includes:
- tools

- drugs
- methods
- procedures and technique
- people’s technology
- indigenous technology
▪ Criteria for Appropriate health technology
• Safety
• Effectiveness
• Affordability
• Simplicity
• Acceptability
• Feasibility and Reliability
• Ecological effects
• Potential to contribute to individual and community development
❖ R.A. 8423 - Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997 (Juan Flavier)
MEDICINAL
USE/INDICATION PREPARATION
PLANTS
1. Lagundi → Asthma, cough and colds, fever, → Decoction
dysentry, pain → Wash affected site
→ Skin disease (scabies, ulcer, with decoction
eczema), wounds
2. Yerba Buena → Headache, stomachache → Decoction
→ Cough and colds → Infusion
→ Rheumatism, Asthritis → Massage sap
3. Sambong → Antiedema/antiurolithiasis → Decoction
4. Tsaang Gubat → Diarrhea → Decoction
→ Stomachache
5. Niyog- → Antielminthic → Seeds are used
niyogan
6. Bayabas → Washing wounds → Decoction
→ Diarrhea, gargle, toothache
7. Akapulko → Antifugal → Poultrice
8. Ulasimang → Lowers blood uric acid → Decoction
Bato/ Pansit- (rheumatism and gout) → Eaten raw
pansitan
9. Bawang → Hypertension, lowers blood → Eaten raw/fried
cholesterol → Apply on part
→ Toothache

10. Ampalaya → Diabetes mellitus (mild non- → Decoction
insulin-dependent) → Steamed
❖ MEDICINAL PLANT PREPARATION

1. DECOCTION - boiling the plant material in water for 20 min.
2. INFUSION - plant material is soaked in hot water for 10 - 15 minutes.
3. POULTRICE - directly apply plant material on the affected part, usually in bruises,
wounds, and rashes.
4. TINCTURE - mix the plant material in alcohol.
❖ ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE MODALITIES

TERM DEFINITION
1. Acupressure - Application of pressure on acupuncture pts. W/o
puncturing the skin
2. Acupuncture - Uses special needles to puncture and stimulate specific
part of the body
3. Aromatherapy - Combines essential aromatic oils to then applied to the
body
4. Nutritional - “Nutritional healing”, this improves health by enhancing
Therapy the nutritional value to reduce the risk of the disease
5. Pranic Healing - Follows the principle of balancing energy
6. Reflexology - Application of pressure on the body’s reflex joints to
enhance body’s natural healing.
❖ PRIMARY CARE
o Includes health promotion, disease prevention, health maintenance, counseling, patient
education and diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illness in different health
settings (American Association of Family Medicine)
o Refers to the first contact of a person with a professional
o A model of nursing care that emphasizes continuity of care
o Nursing care is directed towards meeting all the patient’s need.
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY CARE

Focus of client Family and community Individual
Focus of care Promotive and preventive Curative
Decision-making
Community-centered Health worker driven
process
Outcome Self-reliance Reliance on health workers

Rural-based satellite
Mostly urban places; hospital,
Setting for services clinics; community health
clinics
centers
Development and
Goal Absence of disease
preventive care
CHAPTER 4: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: ENSURING HEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE

❖ DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
o Community Organizing as a Process
▪ It consists of steps or activities that instill and reinforce the people’s self-
confidence on their own collective strengths and capabilities (Manalili, 1990).
▪ It is the development of the community’s collective capacities
- to solve its own problems and aspire for development through its own
efforts.
▪ It is a continuous process of educating the community
- to develop its capacity to assess and analyze the situation (which usually
involves the process of consciousness raising), plan and implement
interventions (mobilization), and evaluate them.
▪ It is a process of educating and mobilizing members of the community
- to enable them to resolve community problems. It is a means to build the
community’s capacity to work for the common good in general and health
goals.
o Community Organizing and Community Health Nursing Practice Have Common Goals:
▪ People empowerment, development of self-reliant community, and improved
quality of life.
- As a result, they become the health care professionals’ partners in health
care delivery and overall community development.
• Community development means improvement access to resource (including health
resources) that will enable the people to improve their standards of living and overall
quality life.
• The emphases of community organizing in primary health care are the following:
1. People from the community working together to solve their own problems.
2. Internal organizational consolidation as a prerequisite to external expansion
3. Social movement first before technical change
4. Health reforms occurring within the context of broader social transformation.
• Community development is the end goal of community organizing and all efforts
towards uplifting the status of the poor and marginalized.
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT – entails a process of assessment of the current situation,
the identification of needs, deciding on appropriate courses of actions or response,
mobilization of resources to address these needs, and monitoring and evaluation by
the people.
• COMMUNITY ORGANIZING is a value-based process, tracing its roots to three basic
values: (LOCOA, 2005).
o Human Rights

▪ Based on the worth and dignity inherent to all human beings: the right to
life, the right to development as persons and as a community, and the
freedom to make decisions for oneself.
o Social Justice
▪ Entails fairness in the distribution of resources to satisfy basic needs and
to maintain dignity as human beings.
o Social Responsibility
▪ An offshoot of the ethical principle of solidarity, which points to people
being part of one community and is reflected in concern for one another.
❖ CORE PRINCIPLES AND GROUNDS FOR THE PRACTICE OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING:

o Anchored on the basic values of:
▪ human rights
▪ social justice
▪ social responsibility
❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS PEOPLE-CENTERED:
o The basic premise of any community organizing endeavor
▪ the people are the means and ends of development, and community
empowerment is the process and the outcome (Felix, 1998).
▪ It is people-centered (Brown, 1985) in the sense that the process of critical
inquiry is informed by and responds to experiences and needs of the
marginalized sectors/people.
o Community organizing is not meant for person-to-person interaction, with only a few
who will benefits from any undertakings and activities.
o Community organizing is a people-centered strategy, with emphasis on the
development of human resources necessitating education. The educational processes
are interactive, empowering both the learners (the members of the community) and
the teacher (the nurse), leading to decision making that plays a part in human
development (Brown, 1985).
❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS PARTICIPATIVE:

o The participation of the community in the entire process-assessment, planning,
implementation, and evaluation-should be ensured. The community is considered as
the prime mover and determinant, rather than beneficiaries and recipients, of
development efforts, including health care.
o For people empowerment, community participation is a critical condition for success
(Reid, 2000). In community participation decision making and responsibility are in the
hands of ordinary people, not just the elite. Distinction is not made among different
groups and different personalities (Reid, 2000).
❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS DEMOCRATIC:

o Community organizing should empower the disadvantage population. It is a process
that allows the majority of people to recognize and critically analyze their difficulties
and articulate their aspiration. Hence, their decision must reflect the will of the whole,
more so the will of the common people, than that of the leaders and the elite.

o Conflicts are inevitable in group dynamics. They are to be expected in organizing work.
Thus, the organizer and community leaders require skills to effectively process and
manage these conflicts.
o Effort must be exerted to achieve a consensus. This requires a participative and
consultative approach.
❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS DEVELOPMENTAL:

o Community organizing should be directed towards changing current undesirable
conditions. The organizer desires changes for the betterment of the community and
believes that the community shares these aspirations and that these changes can be
achieved.
o Beyond health or economic improvement, community organizing seeks authentic
human development.
❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS PROCESS-ORIENTED:

o The community organizing goals of empowerment and development are achieved
through a process of change.
o Community organizing is dynamic. With the evolving community situation, monitoring
and periodic review of plans are necessary. Through efforts of community members to
identify and deal with other problems leads to sustenance of the community organizing
efforts.
❖ PHASES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING:

 PRE-ENTRY
▪ Pre-entry involves preparation one the part of the organizer and choosing a
community for partnership.
• Preparation includes knowing the goals of the community organizing
activity or experience. It also necessary to delineate criteria or guidelines
for site selection.
• Making a list of sources of information and possible facility resources,
both government and private, is recommended.
• For the novice organizers, preparation includes a study or review of the
basic concepts of community organizing.
• Proper selection of possible barriers, threats, strengths, and
opportunities at this stage is an important determinant of the overall
outcome of community organizing.
▪ Communities may be identified through different means:
✓ Initial data gathered through an ocular survey
✓ Review of records of a health facility
✓ Review of the barangay/municipality profile
✓ Referrals from other communities or institutions or through a series of
meetings
✓ Consultation from the local government units (LGUs) or private
institutions.
✓ An ocular survey done at this stage.
✓ Courtesy call to the Mayor

 ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY
▪ Entry into the community formalizes the start of the organizing process. This is
the stage where the organizer gets to know the community and the community
likewise gets to know the organizer.
• An important point to remember this phase is to make courtesy call to
local formal leaders (barangay chairperson, council members)
• Equally crucial but often overlooked is a visit to informal leaders
recognized in the community, like elders, local health workers, traditional
healers, church leaders, and local neighborhood association leaders.
▪ Considerations in the Entry Phase:
• The community organizer’s responsibility to clearly introduce themselves
and their institution to the community.
• A clear explanation of the vision and mission, goals, programs, and
activities must be given in all initial meetings and contacts with the
community.
• Preparation for the initial visit includes gathering basic information on
socioeconomic conditions, traditions including religious practices, overall
physical environment, general health resources.
• the community organizer must keep in mind that the goal of the process
is to build up the confidence and capacities of people.
• Manalili describe two strategies for gaining entry into a community:
1. Padrino – a patron, usually barangay or some other local
government official. The padrino, in an effort to boost the
organizer’s image, tends to preset the intended project output,
thereby creating false hopes.
2. Bongga – as the easiest way to catch the attention and gain the
“approval” of the community. This strategy exploits the people’s
weaknesses and usually involves doles-out, such free
medicines.
CHAPTER 5: HEALTH PROMOTION AND CAPACITY BUILDING STRATEGIES

❖ HEALTH PROMOTION
• Green and Kreuter (1991)
▪ Any combination of health education and related organizational, economic, and
environmental supports for behavior of individual, groups or communities
conducive to health
• Parse (1990)
▪ Behavior that is motivated by the desire to increase wellbeing and to reach the
best possible health potential
❖ HEALTH PROTECTION
• Parse (1990)
▪ Behaviors in which one engages with the specific intent to prevent disease,
detect disease in the early stages or to maximize health within constraints of
disease
▪ =
❖ HEALTH RISK – The probability that a specific event will occur in a given time frame

• Risk Assessment
▪ Conducted to determine health risks to individuals, groups and populations. A
systematic way of distinguishing the risks posed by potentially harmful
exposures
• STEPS OF RISK ASSESSMENT

o Hazard Identification
o Risk Description
o Exposure Assessment
o Risk Estimation
• Risk Factor – an exposure that is associated with a disease

o 3 Criteria for Establishing a Risk Factor
1. The frequency of the disease varies by category or amount of factor.
2. The risk factor must precede the onset of the disease.
3. The association of concern must not be due to any source of error.
o Two Types of Risks Factors
➢ Modifiable Risk Factors – individual has some control
➢ Non- Modifiable Risk Factors – little or no control.
▪ (Ex. genetic makeup, gender, age)
• Risk Reduction – a proactive process in which individuals participate in behaviors that

enable them to react to actual or potential threats to their health
• Risk Communication – process through which public receives information regarding
possible threats to health
 To improve the nutritional status of the population, nutrition and education is essential. The 10
NUTRITIONAL GUIDELINES FOR FILIPINOS were developed to facilitate dissemination simple and
practical messages to encourage healthy diet and lifestyle.
1. Eat variety of foods everyday
2. Breast feed infants exclusively from birth to 4-6 months and give appropriate foods while
continuing breastfeeding
3. Maintain children’s normal growth through proper diet and monitor their growth regularly
4. Consume fish, lean meat, poultry or dried beans
5. Eat more vegetables, fruits and root crops
6. Eat foods cooked in edible/cooking oil daily
7. Consume milk and milk products and other calcium rich foods such as small fish and dark
leafy vegetables everyday
8. Use iodized salt but avoid intake of excessive intake of salty foods
9. Eat clean and safe food
10. For a healthy lifestyle and good nutrition, exercise regularly, do not smoke and avoid drinking
alcoholic beverages

 Sleep is essential component of chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
HOW MUCH SLEEP DO YOU REALLY NEED?
AGE SLEEP NEEDS
Newborn (1-2 months) ✓ 10.5-18 hours
✓ 9-12 hours during night
Infants (3-11 months) ✓ 30-minute to 2 our naps 1-4 times
a day
Toddlers (1-3 years) ✓ 12-14 hours
Preschoolers (3-5 years) ✓ 11-13 hours
School-aged children (5-12 years) ✓ 10-11 hours
Teens (11-17 years) ✓ 8.5-9.25 hours
Adults ✓ 9 hours
Older Adults ✓ 9 hours
 Sleep Hygiene (National Sleep Foundation 2010)

1. Avoid caffeine and nicotine close to bedtime
2. Avoid alcohol as it can cause sleep disruptions
3. Retire and get up at the same time everyday
4. Exercise regularly but finish all exercise and vigorous activity at least 3 hours before
bedtime
5. Establish a regular relaxing bedtime routine (a warm bath, reading a book)
6. Create a dark, quiet, cool sleep environment
7. As much as circumstances allow, have comfortable beddings
8. Use the bed for sleep only. Do not read, listen to music or watch TV in bed
9. Avoid large meals before bedtime
 Smoking Cessation is an important step in achieving optimum health.

The American Cancer society recommends the following Steps to Quit Smoking:
1. Make decision to quit.
2. Set a date to quit and choose a plan
3. Deal with withdrawal through. Avoid temptation
4. Staying off tobacco is a lifelong process. Remind yourself of the reasons why you quit
 Alcohol Consumption
• Health authorities have defined moderation as:
o Not more than 2 drinks a day for the average sized man
o Not more than 1 drink a day for the average size woman
• Heavy Drinking
o consuming more than 2 drinks/day on average for men and more than 1 drink per day
for women
• Binge drinking
o drinking 5 or more drinks on a single occasion for men / 4 or more drinks on a single
occasion for women
• Excessive Drinking
o can take the form of heavy drinking/ binge drinking/ both.

❖ Organized by the WHO, the 1st International Conference on Health Promotion was held at
Ottawa, Canada on November 17-21, 1986.
o It calls for a commitment to health promotion to achieve the goal of Health for All by
the year 2000 and beyond.
▪ The charter defines HEALTH PROMOTION as:
• the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve
their health. It is not just the responsibility of the health sector but goes
beyond healthy lifestyles to well-being.
❖ 3 BASIC STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
1. Advocacy for health to provide for the conditions and resources essential for health
2. Enabling all people to attain their full health potential
3. Mediating among the different sectors of society to achieve health
❖ 5 PRIORITY ACTION AREAS PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR THESE 3 STRATEGIES:
1. Build Healthy Public Policy
2. Create Supportive Environments
3. Develop Personal Skills
4. Reorient Health Services
5. Moving into the Future
❖ HEALTH EDUCATION
o a process of changing people’s knowledge, skills and attitudes for health promotion
and risk reduction.
o The nurse participates in health education by empowering people so that they are able
to achieve optimum health and prevent disease by bringing out lifestyle changes and
reducing exposure to health risk in the environment
❖ BASIC PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDE THE EFFECTIVE NURSE EDUCATOR (based onKnowles Theory
on adult learning)
1. Message
• send a clear/understandable message to the learner.
• Consider factors that may affect learner’s ability to receive and retain info.
2. Format
• strategy must match the objectives
3. Environment
• conducive environment for learning, therapeutic and supportive relationship
with the learner
4. Experience
• organize positive and meaningful learning experience
5. Participation
• engage learner in participatory learning by involving then in the discussion,
solicit feedback
6. Evaluation
• use tools such as quizzes, individual conferences and return demonstration

CHAPTER 6: FAMILY HEALTH NURSING
❖ FAMILY DATA ANALYSIS
• Data analysis is done by comparing findings with accepted standards for individual
family members and for the family unit.
• The nurse correlates findings in the different data categories and checks for significant
gaps in information or the need for more details related to a finding.
❖ SYSTEM OF ORGANIZING FAMILY Data (adapted from Nies and McEwen, 2011)
• Family Structure and characteristics are reflected in:
✓ Data on household membership
✓ Demographic characteristics
✓ Family members living outside the household
✓ Family mobility
✓ Family dynamics (emotional bonding, authority and power structure, autonomy of
members, division of labor, and patterns of communication, decision making, and
problem and conflict resolution).
✓ Data on family structure can be visualized clearly through graphic tools such as
genogram ecomap and family tree.
• Socioeconomic characteristics include:

✓ Data on social integration (ethnic origin, languages and dialects spoken, and
social networks)
✓ Educational experiences and literacy
✓ Work history
✓ Financial resources Leisure time interests
✓ Cultural influences
✓ Spirituality or religious affiliation
• Family Environment
✓ Refers to the physical environment inside the family’s home/residence and its
neighborhood.
• Family Health and Health Behavior include:

✓ Family’s activities of daily living
✓ Self-care
✓ Risk behaviors
✓ Health history
✓ Current health status
✓ Health care resources (home remedies and health services)
❖ FAMILY NURSING DIAGNOSIS

• Nursing diagnoses may be formulated at several levels:
✓ As an Individual family member
✓ As a family unit
✓ As the family in relation to its environment/community.

• International (NANDA-I, 2011)
✓ Serve as a common framework of expressing human responses to actual and
potential health problems.
• Family Coping Index

✓ This tool is based on premise that nursing action may help a family in providing
for a health need or resolving a health problem by promoting the family’s coping
capacity.
❖ NINE AREAS OF ASSESSMENT OF THE FAMILY COPING INDEX (Freeman and Heinrich, 1981):
i. Physical Independence
→ Family members’ mobility and ability to perform activities of daily living (personal
hygiene)
ii. Therapeutic Competence
→ Ability to comply with prescribed or recommended procedures and treatments to
be done at home.
iii. Knowledge of Health Condition
→ Understanding of the health condition or essentials of care according to the
developmental stages of family members.
iv. Application of Principles of Personal and General Hygiene
→ practice of general health promotion and recommended preventive measures.
v. Health Care Attitudes
→ family’s perception of health care in general.
vi. Emotional Competence
→ Degree of emotional maturity of family members according to their developmental
stage.
vii. Family Living Patterns
→ Interpersonal relationships among family members, management of family
finances, and the type of discipline in the home.
viii. Physical Environment
→ includes home, school, work, and community environment that influence the health
of family members.
ix. Use of Community Facilities
→ ability of the family to seek and utilize, as needed, both environment-run and
private health.
❖ FORMULATING THE PLAN OF CARE

• Planning involves:
o priority setting
o establishing goals and objectives
o determining appropriate interventions to achieve goals and objectives.
• Stancope and Lancaster (2010)
▪ The nurse’s role at this stage consists of offering guidance, providing
information, and assisting the family in the planning process.
• Priority Setting – determining the sequence in dealing with identified family needs and
problems.
1. Family safety: A life threatening situation is given top priority.

2. Family perception: Priority is given to the need that the family recognizes as
urgent or important.
3. Practicality: Together with the family the nurse looks into existing resources
and constraints.
4. Projected effects: The immediate resolution of a family concern gives the family
a sense of accomplishment and confidence in themselves and the nurse.
❖ ESTABLISHING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

• Goal
▪ Desired observable family response to planned interventions in response to a
mutually identified family need.
• Objectives
▪ the desired step by step family responses as they work toward a goal.
▪ Workable, well stated objectives should be SMART:
✓ S: Specific
✓ M: Measurable
✓ A: Attainable
✓ R: Relevant
✓ T: Time bound
❖ DETERMINING APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS

o Freeman and Heinrich categorize nursing interventions into three types:
▪ 3 Types of Nursing Interventions:
1. Supplemental Interventions – actions that nurse performs on behalf of the
family when it is unable to do things for itself.
2. Facilitative Interventions – actions that remove barriers to appropriate
health action such as assisting the family to avail of maternal and early
childcare services.
3. Developmental Interventions – aim to improve the capacity of the family to
provide for its own health needs such as guiding the family to make
responsible health decisions.
o Implementing the Plan of Care
I. Implementation is the step when the family or the nurse execute the plan of
action.
❖ EVALUATION – To evaluate is to determine or fix the value.

• Formative Evaluation – judgment made about effectiveness of nursing interventions as
they are implemented.
• Summative Evaluation – determining the end results of family nursing care and usually
involves measuring outcomes or the degree to which goals have been achieved.
• ASPECTS OF EVALUATION:
✓ Effectiveness – determination of whether goals and objectives were attained.
✓ Appropriateness – suitability of the goals/objectives and interventions
✓ Adequacy – degree of sufficiency of goals/objectives and interventions
✓ Efficiency – relationship of resources used to attain the desired outcomes

❖ FAMILY-NURSE CONTACTS
➢ The family-nurse relationship is developed through family-nurse contacts, which may
take the form of a:
▪ Clinic Visit
▪ Group Conference
▪ Telephone Contact
▪ Written Communication
▪ Home Visit
• CLINIC VISIT
o takes place in a private clinic health center, barangay health station.
o Major advantage:
▪ A family member takes the initiative of visiting the professional health worker,
usually indicating the family readiness to participate in the health care process.
▪ Because the nurse has greater control over the environment, distractions are
lessened, and the family may feel less confident to discuss family health
concerns.
• GROUP CONFERENCE
o Appropriate for developing cooperation, leadership, self-reliance and or community
awareness among group members.
o The opportunity to share experiences and practical solutions to common health
concerns is a strength of this type of family-nurse contact.
• WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
o used to give specific information to families, such as instructions given to parents
through school children.
• HOME VISIT
o Home visit is a professional, purposeful interaction that takes place in the family’s
residence aimed at promoting, maintaining, and restoring the health of the family or its
members.
o Advantages:
1. It allows first-hand assessment of the home situation.
2. The nurse can seek out previously unidentified needs.
3. It gives the nurse an opportunity to adapt interventions according to family
resources.
4. It promotes family participation and focuses on the family as a unit.
5. Teaching family members in the home is made easier by the familiar
environment and the recognition of the need to learn as they are faced by the
actual home situation.
6. The personalized nature of home visit gives family a sense of confidence in
themselves and in the agency.
o Disadvantages:
1. The cost in terms of time and effort.
2. There are more distractions because the nurse is unable to control the
environment.
3. Nurse’s safety.

o Phases of Home Visit
I. PREVISIT PHASE
• Nurse contacts the family, determines the willingness for a home visit,
and sets an appointment with them.
• A plan for the home visit is formulated during this phase. The ff. are
specific principles in planning for a home visit:
• Being a professional contact with the family, the home visit should have a
purpose.
• Purposes:
o To have a more accurate assessment
o To educate the family about measures of health promotion,
disease prevention and control of health problems.
o To provide supplemental interventions for the sick, disabled or
dependent family member.
o To provide family with greater access to health resources in the
community.
• Use information about the family collected from all possible sources
such as records, other personnel or agency, or previous contacts with
the family.
• The home visit plan focuses on identified family needs, particularly needs
organized by the family as requiring urgent attention.
• The client and the family should actively participate in planning for
continuing care.
• The plan should be practical and adaptable.
II. IN-HOME PHASE
• This phase begins as the nurse seeks permission to enter and lasts until
he or she leaves the family’s home.
• It consists of initiation, implementation, and termination.
o Initiation
▪ It is customary to knock or ring the doorbell and at the
same time, in a reasonably loud but nonthreatening voice
say, “Tao po. Si Jenny po to, nurse sa health center?”
▪ On entering the home, the nurse acknowledges the family
members with a greeting and introduces himself and the
agency he represents.
▪ Observes environment for his own safety and sits as the
family directs him to sit.
▪ Establish rapport by initiating a short conversation.
▪ States the purpose of the visit the source of information.
o Implementation
▪ Involves the application of the nursing process,
assessment, provision of direct nursing care as needed, and
evaluation.
o Termination
▪ Consists of summarizing with the family the events during
the home visit and setting a subsequent home visit or
another form of family-nurse contact.

▪ Use this time to record findings, such as vital signs of family
members and body weight.
III. POSTVISIT PHASE
• Takes place when the nurse has returned to the health facility.
• Involves documentation of the visit.
❖ THE NURSING BAG

• Frequently called the PHN bag is a tool used by the nurse during home or community
visits to be able to provide care safely and efficiently.
• Serves as a reminder of the need for hand hygiene and other measures to prevent the
spread of infection.
• Nursing bag usually has the ff. contents:
- Articles for infection control
- Articles for assessment of family members
- Note that the stethoscope and sphygmomanometer are carried separately.
- Articles for nursing care
- Sterile items
- Clean articles
- Pieces of paper
• Use of the Nursing Bag
o Bag technique helps the nurse in infection control.
o Bag technique allows the nurse to give care efficiently.
o It saves time and effort by ensuring that the articles needed for nursing care are
available.
o Bag technique should not take away the nurse’s focus on the patient and the
family.
o Bag technique may be performed in different ways, principles of asepsis are of
the essence and should always be practiced.
❖ For infection control the ff. activities should be practiced during home visits:
1. Remember to proceed from “clean” to “contaminated”.
2. The bag and its contents should be well protected from contact with any article in the
patient’s home.
3. Line the table/flat surface with paper/washable protector on which the bag and all of
the articles to be used are placed.
4. Wash your hands before and after physical assessment and physical care of each
family member.
5. Bring out only the articles needed.
6. Do not put any of the family’s articles on your paper lining/washable protector.
7. Wash your articles before putting them back into you bag.
8. Confine the contaminated surface by folding the contaminated side inward.
9. Wash the inner cloth lining of the bag, as necessary.

CHAPTER 7: THE NURSING PROCESS IN THE CARE OF THE COMMUNITY
❖ THE NURSING PROCESS IN THE CARE OF THE COMMUNITY
➢ A community is a group of people who:
• Have a common interest or characteristics
• Interact with one another
• Have sense of unity or belonging
• Function collectively within a defined social structure to address common
concerns
➢ A community may be phenomenological (functional) or geopolitical (territorial)
❖ PRINCIPALS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

1. Community is the focus of care; nurse responsibility is to the community as a whole
2. Give priority to community needs
3. Work with the community as an equal partner of the health team
4. Focus on primary prevention for appropriate activities
5. Promote a healthful physical and psychosocial environment
6. Reach out to all who may benefit from a specific service
7. Promote optimum use of resources
8. Collaborate with others working in the community health
❖ Conditions in the community affecting health

• People
• Location
• Social system
❖ Characteristics of a healthy community

• A shared sense of being a community based on history and values
• A general feeling of empowerment
• Existing structures that allow subgroups within the community to participate in
decision making
• The ability to cope with change, solve problems, and manage conflicts within the
community through acceptable means
• Open channels of communication
• Equitable and efficient use of community resources
❖ Aims
1. Achieve a good quality life
2. Create a health supportive environment
3. Provide basic sanitation
4. Supply access to health care
❖ COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
o the data needed to be collected depend on the objectives of community assessment.
o In general, the nurse needs to collect data on the three categories of community health
determinants: people, place, and social system.
❖ DATA COLLECTED FOR THE HEALTH P.A.T.C.H: (Planed Approach To Community Health)
PROCESS FOR HEALTH PLANING

1. Community Profile
- Demographic educational and economic data
2. Morbidity and Mortality Data
- Including unique health events (e.g., completion of barangay health station, a
typhoon that caused flooding of residential areas)
3. Behavioral Data
- Focusing on behavioral risk factors, such as smoking, drinking, and leading a
sedentary lifestyle, and prevailing good health practices in the community, such
as breast feeding and getting regular exercise
4. Opinion Data
- from community leaders, such as what they think about the main health
problems of the community their causes, measures that may alleviate or
correct them
• Problem-oriented assessment is focused on an aspect of health: focusing on what’s problem

the community have in mind
❖ TOOLS IN COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT

• Collecting Primary Data
▪ Observation
• Ocular survey/ windshield survey
▪ Survey
▪ Informant interview
• Talks to the community people
• Key informants: consist of formal and informal community leaders or
persons of position and influence
▪ Community forum
• Pulong–pulong sa barangay
• Focus group
o Secondary Data Source

▪ Health records and reports
▪ Field Health Service Information (FHSIS) recording and reporting tools
▪ FHSIS is as basis for:
i. Priority setting by local governments
ii. Planning and decision making at different levels (barangay,
municipality, district, provincial, and national)
iii. Monitoring and evaluating health program implementation
 The FHSIS Manual of Operations

i. Individual Treatment Record (ITR) – Building block of FHSIS
▪ Health workers are advised not to rely on client-maintained
ii. Target Client List
▪ Target Client List for prenatal care
▪ Target Client List for postpartum care
▪ Target Client List of under 1-year-old children
▪ Target Client List for family planning
▪ Target Client List for sick children

▪ National Tuberculosis Program Register
▪ National Leprosy Control Program Central Registration Form
iii. Summary Table (Accomplished by Midwife)
iv. Monthly Consolidation Table (MTC)
 The Reporting Forms (as Enumerated in The FHSIS Manual of Operations)

i. Monthly Forms (Regularly prepared by the midwife and summited to the nurse)
a. Program Report (M1)
▪ Contains indicators categorized as maternal care, childcare, and
family planning
b. Morbidity Report (M2)
▪ contains list of all cases of disease by age and sex.
ii. Quarterly Forms (Prepared by the nurse)

a. Program Report (Q1)
▪ 3-month total indicators categorized as maternal care, family
planning, childcare, dental health, and disease control
b. Morbidity
iii. Annual Forms

a. A-BHS
- Demographic, environmental, and natality data
b. Annual Form 1 (A-1)
- Prepared by the nurse and is the report of the RHU or health
center.
- It contains demographic and environmental data and data on
natality and mortality for the entire year.
c. Annual Form 2 (A-2)
- prepared by the nurse, is the yearly morbidity report by age and
sex
d. Annual For 3 (A-3)
- prepared by the nurse, yearly report of all mortality by age and sex
disease registry census data
❖ COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS
• Community diagnosis is the process of determining the health status of the community
and the factors responsible for it.
• In this phase, the health workers make a judgement about the community’s health
status, resources and health action potential or likely hood that the community will act
to meet health needs to resolve health problems.
• This consist of:
▪ The health risk or specific problem to which the community is exposed.
▪ The specific aggregate or community with whom the nurse will be working to
deal with the risk or problem.
▪ Related factors that influence how the community will respond to the health risk
or problem application of this nursing diagnosis

❖ PLANNING COMMUNITY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
• Planning for community health interventions is based on findings during assessment
and formulated nursing diagnosis.
• Planning Phase – involves priority setting, formulating goals and objectives, and
deciding on community interventions.
→ Active participation of the people
→ To foster participation, the community should have genuine representation in
the planning group.
→ Deciding on community representatives will be facilitated if the community has
been organized earlier.
• Priority Setting
▪ Provides the nurse and the health team with a logical means of establishing
priority among the identified health concerns.
❖ CRITERIAS TO DECIDE ON A COMMUNITY HEALTH CONCERN FOR INTERVENTION [ACCORDING

TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)]
▪ SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROBLEM
→ is based on the number of people in the community affected by the problem or
condition.
→ If the concerns are:
• Disease Condition – this may be estimated in terms of its prevalence rate
• Potential Problem – its significance is determined by estimating the
number of people at risk of developing the condition.
▪ THE LEVEL OF COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND THE PRIORITY ITS MEMBERS GIVE TO
THE HEALTH CONCERN
→ A MAJOR consideration.
→ Shuster and Goeppinger (2004) also mentioned community motivation to deal
with the condition.
▪ ABILITY TO REDUCE RISK

▪ Related to the availability of expertise among the health team and the
community itself.
▪ Involves the health team’s level of influence in decision making related to
actions in resolving the community health concern.
▪ COST OF REDUCING RISK

▪ The nurse must consider economic, social, and ethical requisites and
consequences of planned actions.
▪ ABILITY TO IDENTIFY THE TARGET POPULATION

▪ For the intervention is a matter of availability of data sources, such as FHSIS,
census, survey reports, and case-finding or screening tools.
▪ AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES

▪ To intervene the reduction of risk entails technological, financial, and other
material resources of the community, the nurse, and the health agency.
 For a realistic and useful outcome, the priority-setting process requires the joint effort of the
community, the nurse, and other stakeholders, such as the other members of the health
team.
▪ The group defines guidelines for discussion, particularly on the manner of reconciling
differences of opinion.
▪ Shuster and Goeppinger (2004) suggested a flexible process using the nominal group
technique wherein each group member has an equal voice in decision making, thereby
avoiding control of the process by the more dominant members of the group.
▪ This technique is appropriate for brainstorming and ranking ideas, when consensus-
building is desired over making a choice based on the opinion of the majority.
▪ The group makes a list of the identified community health problems or conditions. Each
of the identified problems is treated separately according to a set of criteria agreed
upon by the group such as those suggested by the WHO.
 As suggested by Shuster and Goeppinger (2004), the following steps are carried out:
1. From a scale of 1 to 10, being the lowest, the members give each criterion a weight
based on their perception of a weight based on their perception of its degree of
importance in solving the problem.
2. From a scale of 1 to 10, being the lowest, each member rates the criteria in terms of
the likelihood of the group being able to influence or change the situation.
3. Collate the weights (from step 1) and ratings (from step 2) made by the members of the
group.
4. Compute the total priority score of the problem by multiplying collated weight and
rating of each criterion.
5. The priority score of the problem is calculated by adding the products obtained in step
4
After repeating the process on all identified health problems, compare the total priority
scores of the problems. The problem with the highest total priority score is assigned top
priority, the next highest is assigned to second, and so on.
❖ FORMULATING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

▪ Goals are the desired outcomes at the end of interventions
▪ Objectives are the short-term changes in the community that are observed as the
health team and the community work towards the attainment of goals.
→ Serves as instructions, defining what should be detected in the community as
interventions are being implemented.
→ Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives
provide a solid basis for monitoring and evaluation.
❖ DECIDING ON COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS

o The group analyzed the reasons for the people’s health behavior and directs strategies
to respond to the underlying causes.

▪ For example, reasons for preference of home delivery over facility-based
delivery should be identified.
• If the majority of the women would choose to have a home delivery
because of cost or lack of access of birthing facilities, strategies should
then be focused on improving facility-based services.
• But if the primary reason is sociocultural, the planning team may opt to
concentrate on providing opportunities for skills development of
traditional birth attendants and/or exerting effort to gain the trust and
confidence of the women and their families.
▪ In the process of developing the plan, the group takes into consideration the
demographic, psychological, social, cultural, and economic characteristics of the
target population on one hand and the available health resources on the other
hand.
❖ IMPLEMENTING THE COMMUNITY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

▪ Often referred to as the action phase
▪ IMPLEMENTATION is the most exciting phase for most health workers.
▪ Aside from being able to deal with the recognized priority health concern, the entire
process is intended to enhance the community’s capability in dealing with common
health conditions/problems.
▪ The nurse’s role therefore may be to facilitate the process rather than directly
implement the process rather than directly implement the planned interventions.
▪ Implementation also entails coordination of the plan with the community and the other
members of the health team. This requires a common understanding of the goals,
objectives and planned interventions among the members of the implementing group.
▪ Collaboration with the other sectors such as the local government and other agencies
may also be necessary.
❖ EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

▪ Evaluation approaches may be directed structure, process, and outcome.
a. Structure Evaluation
- involves looking into the manpower and physical resources of the agency
responsible for community health interventions.
b. Process Evaluation
- examining how assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and
evaluation were undertaken.
c. Outcome Evaluation
- determining the degree of attainment of goals and objectives.
- Ongoing evaluation or monitoring is done during implementation to
provide feedback on compliance to the plan as well as on need for
changes in the plan to improve the process and outcomes of
interventions.
❖ STANDARD OF EVALUATION
▪ The bases for a good evaluation are its utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy. (CDC,
2011)
i. Utility
→ the value of the evaluation in terms of usefulness of results.

→ The evaluation of community health interventions will be great use to the
community health group
o it helps the group gain insight into strengths and weaknesses of
the plan and the manner of its implementation.
ii. Feasibility
→ answers the question of whether the plan for evaluation is doable or not,
considering available resources.
→ Resources include facilities, time, and expertise for conducting the
evaluation.
iii. Propriety
→ involves ethical and legal matters.
→ Respect for the worth and dignity of the participants in data collection
should be given due consideration.
→ The results of evaluation should be truthfully reported to give credit
where it is due and to show the strengths and weaknesses of the
community
o strengths to encourage further growth and weaknesses for
remedial action, if possible.
iv. Accuracy
→ refers to the validity and reliability of the results of evaluation. Accurate
evaluation begins with accurate documentation while the community
health process is ongoing.
CHAPTER 8: APPLICATIONS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY IN COMMUNITY HEALTH

❖ EPIDEMIOLOGY
o the study of the DISTRIBUTION and DETERMINANTS of health-related states or events
in specified populations, and the application of this study to the prevention and control
of health problems
❖ DISTRIBUTION
o refers to the analysis by time, places and classes of people affected.
❖ DETERMINANTS
o include all the biological, chemical, physical, social, cultural, economic, genetic, and
behavioral factors that influence health.
❖ PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

1. Assessment of the health status of the community or community diagnosis
2. Elucidation of the natural history of disease
3. Determination of disease causation
4. Prevention and control of disease
5. Monitoring and evaluation of health interventions
6. Provision of evidence for policy formulation

❖ TYPES OF HEALTH INDICATORS AND THEIR EXAMPLES
TYPE OF HEALTH INDICATOR EXAMPLES
Health status indicators - Prevalence, incidence
(morbidity)
Health status indicators - Crude and specific death rates, maternal
(mortality) mortality, infant mortality, neonatal
mortality, postnatal mortality, child
mortality, etc.
Population indicators - Age-sex structure of the population,
population density, migration, population
growth (crude birth rate, fertility rate)
Indicators for the provision of - Access to health programs and facilities,
health care availability of health resources (facilities,
health manpower, finances)
Risk reduction indicators - Causes consulting health provider.,
infants exclusively breast-fed for the first
6 months
Social and economic indicators - Quantity of suspended particulate matter,
hydrocarbons, oxidants. Portability of
drinking water
Disability indicators - DALYs, indicators of restricted activity,
indicators of long-term disability
Health policy indicators - Allocation of manpower and financial
resources, mechanisms for community
participation, collaboration between
government and non-government
organizations
❖ HEALTH INDICATORS
o These are quantitative measures usually expressed as rates, ratio, or proportions that
describe and summarize various aspects of the health status of the population.
o Also used to determine factors that may contribute to a causation and control of
diseases, indicates priorities for resource allocation, monitors implementation off
health programs, and evaluates outcomes oh health programs.
❖ MORBIDITY INDICATORS
o Generally based on the disease specific incidence or prevalence for the common and
severe diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and leprosy.
❖ PREVALENCE PROPORTION (P)

▪ Measures the total number of existing cases of disease at a particular point in time
divided by the number of people at the point in time.
▪ Thus, if the point in time is the time of examination, then the denominator is the
number of people examined.
▪ Prevalence can be calculated by:

• Where F is any number of the base 10 that is used as a multiplier to avoid having
decimals as the final value of the indicator.
• Incidence – measures the number of new cases, episodes, or events occurring
over a specified period, commonly a year within a specified population at risk.
❖ FACTORS AFFECTING PREVALENCE

INCREASED BY DECREASED BY
- Longer duration of the - Shorter duration of the disease
disease
- Prolongation of life of - High case-fatality rate from disease
patients without care
- Increase in new cases - Decrease in new cases
- In-migration of cases - In-migration of healthy people
- Out-migration of healthy - Out-migration of cases
people
- In-migration of susceptible - Improved cure rate of cases
people
- Improved diagnostic
facilities
• COHORT – a group of people who share a common defining characteristic.
❖ INCIDENT DENSITY RATE

▪ Computed using the total person-time at risk for the entire cohort as the denominator
▪ This indicator measures the average instantaneous rate of disease occurrence.
▪ It can be calculated as:
❖ MORTALITY INDICATORS
▪ Crude Death Rate (CDR)
▪ The rate with which mortality occurs in a given population.
▪ It is computed as:
▪ Factors affecting CDR includes age, sex composition of the population, the
adverse environmental and occupational conditions.
▪ Specific Mortality Rate (SMR)

▪ Shows rate of dying in a specific population group.
▪ Cause-Of-Death Rate (CODR)

▪ Identifies the greatest threat to the survival of the people, thereby pointing to
the need for preventing such deaths.

▪ Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

▪ A good index of health in a community because infants are very sensitive to
adverse environmental conditions.
▪ Thus, a high IMR means low levels of health standards that may be secondary to
poor maternal health and child health care, malnutrition.
▪ Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR)

▪ Postnatal Mortality Rate (PNMR)

 Neonatal mortality rate and postnatal mortality rate add up to the IMR. The reason for such
division is that the causes of neonatal deaths, that is, deaths among infants less than 28 days
old are due mainly to prenatal or genetic factors.
▪ Maternal Death
▪ Death of a female from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its
management during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of
pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy.
▪ Case Fatality Rate (CFR)

▪ The proportion of cases that end up fatally. It gives the risk of dying among
persons afflicted within particular disease.
▪ It is similar to an incidence proportion because it also a measure of average
risk.
❖ POPULATION INDICATORS
➢ Include not only the population growth indicators but also other population dynamics
that can affect the age-sex structure of the population and vice versa.
➢ Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

▪ Measures how fast people are added to the population through births.
▪ Measure of population growth.
A CBR greater than or equal to 45/1,000 live births implies high fertility while a
▪
level less than or equal to 20/1,000 live births implies low fertility.
❖ EXAMPLES OF HEALTH MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND HEALTH INDICATORS
GOAL/TARGET HEALTH TARGETS HEALTH INDICATORS
Goal: 4 - Reduce child mortality - Under-five mortality rate
Target: 5 - Reduce by two-thirds - Infant mortality rate
between 1990 and 2015, - Proportion of 1-year old
the under-five mortality children immunized against
rate measles
Goal: 5 - Improve maternal - Maternal mortality ratio
Target: 6 health - Proportion of births
- Reduce by three attended by skilled
quarters between 1990 personnel
and 2015 the maternal
mortality ratio
Goal: 6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, - HIV prevalence among
Target: 7 malaria, and other pregnant women aged 15-
diseases 24 years
- Have halted by 2015 and - Condom use rate of the
begun to reverse the contraceptive prevalence
Target 8 spread of HIV/AIDS rate
- Have halted by 2015 and
begun to reverse the - Ratio of school attendance
incidence of malaria and of orphans to school
other diseases attendance of no orphanage
aged 10-14 years
- Prevalence and death rates

associated with malaria
- Proportion of population in
malaria risk areas using
effective malaria prevention
and treatment measures
- Prevalence and death rates
associated with TB
- Proportion of TB cases
detected and cured under
DOTS

❖ General Fertility Rate (GFR)
▪ A more specific rate than CBR since births are related to the segment of the population
deemed to be capable of giving birth, that is, the women in the reproductive age
groups.
❖ Population Pyramid
▪ A graphical representation of the age-sex composition of the population that should
also be examined during the assessment of the health status of the community.
❖ SOURCES OF HEALTH DATA

Census Hospital data
Vital registration system Health insurance
Disease notification School health program
Disease registers Downloadable data sets
Surveillance system Surveys
❖ Disease Registry
▪ A compilation of information about a particular disease.
▪ The aim of disease registry is to include all cases of the disease in the registry without
duplication.
❖ DISEASES SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS IN THE PHILIPPINES
1. Notifiable Disease Reporting System (NDRS)
2. Field Health Service Information System (FHSIS)
3. National epidemiology Sentinel Surveillance System (NESSS)
4. Expanded Program on Immunization Surveillance System (IPE Surveillance)
5. HIV/AIDS Registry
❖ STAGES IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DISEASE AND THE LEVELS OF PREVENTION

STAGES IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DISEASE
Stage of Stage of Subclinical Stage of Clinical Resolution
Susceptibility Disease Disease Stage
The person is not The person is still The patient now The patient
yet sick but may apparently healthy manifests either recovers
be exposed to the since clinical recognizable signs completely from
risk factors of the manifestations of and symptoms for the disease
disease, for the disease are not example, vaginal becomes a
instance, multiple yet shown, although bleeding. chronic case
sex partners in pathologic changes with or without
the case of have already disability or
cervical cancer. occurred. dies.

LEVELS OF PREVENTION
Primary Level Secondary Level Tertiary Level
✓ Health ✓ Pap smear ✓ Applicable to
education - can detect this limit the
✓ immunization early stage so disability and
that prompt restore the
treatment can be functional
initiated to avoid capability of the
progression of patient.
the disease.

CHAPTER 9: THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM
❖ Nation’s Health Care Delivery System
o Has a tremendous impact not only the health of its people but also on their total
development including their socioeconomic status.
o Role of the following factors in shaping 21st century health that further influence health
care delivery system (Anderson & Mcfarlene, 2011)
1. Health care “reforms”
2. Demographics
3. Globalization
4. Poverty and growing disparities
5. Social disintegration
❖ World Health Organization (WHO) as this specialized agency of the United Nations (UN)
provides global leadership on health matters.
❖ In the Philippines, health services are provided by the government and the private sector –
for profit as well as nonprofit, with the latter frequently referred to as nongovernmental
organizations or NGO’s.
o In the national level, director is set by department of health (DOH) by virtue of mandate
of the Local Government Code (R.A.7160) LGU’s should have operating mechanism to
meet the priority needs and service requirements of their communities.
o Basic Health Services are regarded as priority services for which LGU’s are primary
responsible.
❖ A Health System consists of all organizations, peoples, and actions whose primary intent is to
promote, restore, or maintain health.
o A health system has six building blocks or components:
1. Service delivery
2. Health workface
3. Information
4. Medical products, vaccines, and technologies
5. Financing
6. Leadership and governance or Stewardship.
 THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

➢ The WHO constitution came into force on April 7, 1948.
o April 7 has been celebrated each year as World Health Day.
➢ Objective:
o The attainment of all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
➢ To attain its objective, WHO carries out the following core functions:
➢ WHO CORE FUNCTIONS:

 Providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging partnerships where
joint action is needed.
o WHO has 193 members of countries and 2 associate members.
o WHO and its members work with UN agencies, NGO’s and the private sector.

o The WHO country focus is directed toward providing technical collaboration with
member states with accordance with each country’s needs and capacities.
 Shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation, and
disseminating valuable knowledge.
o The WHO strategy on research for health has 5 goals:
1. Capacity – In reference to capacity-building to strengthen the national
health research system
2. Priorities – To focus research on priority health need particularly in
low- and middle-income countries
3. Standards - To promote good research practice and enable the greater
sharing of research evidence, tools, and materials
4. Translation - To ensure that quality evidence is turned into products
and policy
5. Organization – To strengthen the research culture within WHO and
improve the management and coordination of WHO research activities.
 Setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation.
o WHO develops norms and standards for various health and health –related
issues, such as:
• Pharmaceutical products including vaccines and other biological
products used in immunization
• Practices in maternal and childcare
• Environmental conditions.
 Articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options.

o Through its Department of Ethics and Social Determinants, WHO is evolved in
various issues on health ethics.
o In collaboration with other governmental and nongovernmental organizations,
WHO has worked on bioethical concerns such as those related to human organ
and tissue transplantation, reproductive technology, and public health response
to threats of infectious diseases like AIDS, influenza, and tuberculosis.
 Providing technical support, catalyzing change, and building sustainable institutional

capacity.
o WHO offers technical support training to its member countries in the fields of
maternal and child health, control of diseases, and environmental health
services.
o WHO is involved in monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.
o WHO has developed guidance and tools and measurement, monitoring and
evaluation.
 THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

➢ September 6 to 8, 2000 – World leaders on UN General Assembly participate in
Millennium Summit.
o The result of the summit was a resolution entitled United Nations Millennium
Declaration.

o In this declaration, the world leaders recognized their collective responsibility
to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level.
➢ The declaration expressed the commitment of the 191 member states, including the
Philippines, to reduce extreme poverty and achieve seven other targets - now called
the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) by the year 2015.
➢ The following are the eight MDG’s and the targets corresponding to health related
MDG’s 4,5, and 6:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
2. Achieve universal primary education.
3. Promote gender equality and empower women.
4. Reduce child mortality. Target: reduce by 2/3, between 1990 and 2015, the under-
five mortality rate.
5. Improve maternal health.
 Targets:
a. Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
b. Achieve universal access to reproductive health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
 Targets:
a. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
b. Achieve by 2010, universal access to treatment for all those who
need it
c. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of
malaria and other major diseases.
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
 THE PHILIPPINE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

➢ The DOH serves as the main governing body of health services in the country.
o Provides guidance and technical assistance to LGUs through the center for
health development in each of the 17 regions.
o Provincial governments
▪ responsible for administration of provincial and district hospitals.
o Municipal and City governments
▪ In charge of primary care through rural health units (RHUs) or health
centers.
▪ Satellite outposts known as barangay health stations (BHSs) provide
health services in the periphery of the municipality or city.
➢ The private sector
o Composed of for-profit and nonprofit agencies this sector provides all levels of
services and accounts for a large segment of health service providers in the
country.
o About 30% of Filipinos utilize private health facilities. Estimated 60% of national
health expenditure goes to the private sector which employs more than 70% of
the health professionals in the Philippines.
➢ Financing of health services is provided by three major groups:

o The Government (National and Local)

o Private Sources
o Social Health Insurance
➢ National Insurance Act of 1995 (R.A. 7875)
o Created by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth).
o It is tax-exempt government corporation attached to the DOH for policy
coordination and guidance and aims for universal health coverage of all Filipino
citizens.
 THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

➢ The DOH is the national agency mandated to lead the health sector towards assuring
quality health care for all Filipinos.
➢ DOH Vision
o “Filipinos are among the healthiest people in Southeast Asia by 2022, and Asia
by 2040”
▪ To be a global leader for attaining better health outcomes, competitive
and responsive health care system, and equitable health financing.
➢ DOH Mission
o “To lead the country in the development of a productive, resilient, equitable and
people-centered health system”
▪ To guarantee equitable, sustainable and quality health for all Filipinos,
especially the poor, and to lead the quest for excellence in health.
➢ In the pursuit of its vision and execution of its mission, the following has the major
roles:
1. Leader in health
2. Enabler and capacity builder
3. Administrator of specific services
➢ The DOH core values reflect adherence to the highest standards of work namely:
1. Integrity – doing what is morally right and proper.
2. Excellence – Striving for the best and taking pride in the calling and practice of
one’s profession according to ethical standards and applying appropriate
technical knowledge to best serve the public.
3. Compassion and respect for human dignity – serving with sympathy and
benevolence to anybody irrespective of race, sex, creed or religion and
upholding the sanctity of human life.
4. Commitment – unselfishly delivering the services required.
5. Professionalism – performing one’s duties with the highest degree of
excellence, intelligence, skills and utmost devotion and dedication.
6. Teamwork – giving full coordination and cooperation with the mindset of
achieving optimum result.
7. Stewardship of Health – advocate, protect and provide health care services for
all.
8. Political Neutrality – providing service to everyone without discrimination and
regardless of party affiliation or preference.
9. Simple living – leading a modest life appropriate to one’s position and income
and shall not indulge in extravagance or ostentatious display of wealth in any
form.

➢ The DOH carries out its work through the various central bureaus and services in the
central office, Center for Health Development (CHD) in every region, DOH- attached
agencies, and DOH-retained hospitals.
➢ LEVELS OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

o Administrative order 2012-0012 (Rules and Regulations Governing the new
Classification of Hospitals and Other Health Facilities in the Philippines)
▪ provides for a new classification scheme of health facilities.
HOSPITALS OTHER HEALTH FACILITIES
A. Primary Care Facility

General
• Level 1 B. Custodial facility
• Level 2
• Level 3 (teaching/ training)
C. Diagnostic/ Therapeutic facility
Specialty D. Specialized outpatient facility
o DOH ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 2012-0012 CLASSIFIES OTHER HEALTH

FACILITIES AS FOLLOWS:
➢ CATEGORY A: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FACILITY
▪ A first contact health care facility that offers basic service
including emergency services and provision for normal deliveries.
1. Without in-patient beds like health centers, out-patient
clinics, and dental clinics.
2. With in-patient beds – a short-stay facility where the
patient spends on the average of one to two days before
discharge.
▪ Ex: Infirmaries and birthing (Lying-in) facilities.
➢ CATEGORY B: CUSTODIAL CARE FACILITY

▪ A health facility that provides long-term care, including basic
services like food and shelter, to patients with chronic conditions
requiring ongoing health and nursing care due to impairment and a
reduced degree of independence in activities of daily living, and
patients in need of rehabilitation.
▪ Ex: Custodial health care facilities, substance/drug abuse
treatment and rehabilitation centers, sanitaria, leprosaria, and
nursing homes.
➢ CATEGORY C: DIAGNOSTIC/THERAPEUTIC FACILITY

▪ A facility for the examination of the human body, specimens from
the human body for the diagnosis, sometimes treatment of disease
or water for drinking analysis. The test covers the preanalytical,
analytical and post analytical phases of examination.

➢ CATEGORY D: SPECIALIZED OUTPATIENT FACILITY
▪ A facility that performs highly specialized procedures on a
outpatient basis.
▪ Ex: Dialysis clinic, ambulatory surgical clinic, cancer
chemotherapeutic center/clinic, cancer radiation facility, and
physical medicine and rehabilitation center/clinic.
 THE RURAL HEALTH UNIT

❖ The RHU (commonly known as health center)
o is a primary level health facility in the municipality.
❖ Focus of RHU
o Preventive and promotive health services
o Supervision of BHSs under its jurisdiction.
❖ Recommended ratio of RHU to catchment population is 1 RHU: 20,000 populations.
❖ The BHS is the first contact health care facility that offers basic services at the barangay
level.
o It is a satellite station of the RHU.
o It is manned by Volunteer Barangay Health Workers (BHW’s) under the supervision of
Rural Health Midwife (RHM).
❖ THE RURAL HEALTH UNIT PERSONNEL

o The Municipal Health Officer (MHO) or Rural Health Physician heads the health
services at the municipal level and carries out the following roles and functions:
1. Administrator of the RHU
a. Prepares the municipal health plan and budget
b. Monitors the implementation of basic health services
c. Management of the RHU staff
2. Community physician
a. Conducts epidemiological studies
b. Formulates health education campaigns on disease prevention
c. Prepares and implements control measures or rehabilitation plan
3. Medico-legal officer of the municipality.
 The revised implementing rules and regulations (IRRSs) of R.A. 7305 or the Magna
Carta of Public Health Workers
o stipulate that there be one rural health physician to a population of 20,000.
❖ LOCAL HEALTH BOARDS

• R.A 7160 or Local Government Code
o enacted to bring about genuine and meaningful local autonomy.
o This will enable local governments to attain their fullest development as self-
reliant communities and make them more effective partners in the attainment
of national goals.
• DEVOLUTION refers to the act by which the national government confers power and
authority upon the various LGU’s to perform specific functions and responsibilities.
o R.A 7160 provided for the creation of the Provincial Health Board and the
City/Municipal Health boards, or Local Health Boards.

• The functions of local health boards are as follows:
1. Proposing to the Sanggunian annual budgetary allocations for the operation
and maintenance of health facilities and services within the
province/city/municipality.
2. Serving as an advisory committee to the Sanggunian on health matters; and
3. Creating committees that shall advise local health agencies on various
matters related to health service operations.
❖ THE HEALTH REFERRAL SYSTEM

• A referral is a set of activities undertaken by a health care provider or facility in
response to its inability to provide the necessary health intervention to satisfy a
patient’s need.
• Functional Referral System
o one that ensures the continuity and complementation of health and medical
services.
• It usually involves movement of a patient from the health center of first contact and
the hospital at first referral level.
• When hospital intervention has been completed, the patient is referred back to the
health center. This accounts for the term two-way referral system.
• Referrals may be internal or external
✓ Internal referrals
• Occur within the health facility.
• May be made to request for an opinion or suggestion, co-management, or
further management or specialty care.
✓ External referral
• A movement of a patient from one health facility to another.
• It may be vertical, where the patient referral may be from a lower to a
higher level of health facility or the other way round.
❖ THE INTER-LOCAL HEALTH ZONE

• The referral system functioning within the context of the Inter-Local Health Zone
(ILHZ)
o Provides a means for consolidating health care efforts.
• The ILHZ is based on the concept of the District Health System
o A generic term used by WHO to describe an integrated health management and
delivery system based on a defined administrative a geographical area.
• An ILHZ has a defined catchment population within a defined geographical area, it has
a central or core referral hospital and a number of primary level facilities such as
RHUs and BHSs.
• The ILHZ has the following components:

i. People
• Although WHO has described the ideal population size of a health district
between 100,000 and 500,000, the number of people may vary from zone

to zone, especially when taking into consideration the number of LGUs
that will decide to cooperate and cluster.
ii. Boundaries
• Clear boundaries between ILHZs establish accountability and
responsibility of health service providers.
iii. Health facilities.
• RHUs, BHSs, and other health facilities that decide to work together as an
integrated health system and a district or provincial hospital, serving as
the central referral hospital.
iv. Health workers.
• To deliver comprehensive services, the ILHZ health workers include
personnel of the DOH, district or provincial hospitals, RHUs, BHSs,
private clinics, volunteer health workers from NGOs, and community-
based organizations.
 HEALTH SECTOR REFORM: UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

➢ Also called the Aquino Health Agenda
➢ It is the latest in a series of continuing efforts of the government to bring about health
sector reforms.
➢ UHC was built upon strategies of two previous platforms of reform:
▪ The initial Health Sector Reform Agenda
▪ FOURmula One for health
➢ Goals and Objectives
1. Better health outcomes
2. Sustained health financing, and
3. A responsive health system by ensuring that all Filipinos, especially the
disadvantaged group, have equitable access to affordable health care.
➢ Strategic Thrusts
o The attainment of the goal of UHC is through the pursuit of three strategic thrusts:
A. Financial risk protection through expansion in NHIP enrollment and benefit
delivery
B. Improved access to quality hospitals and health care facilities
C. Attainment of the health-related MDGs
o To achieve the three strategic thrusts, six strategic instruments shall be optimized:
1. Health Financing - instrument to increase resources for health that will be
effectively allocated and utilized to improve the financial protection of the poor
and the vulnerable sectors.
2. Service Delivery – instrument to transform the health service delivery
structure to address variations in health service utilization and health
outcomes across socioeconomic variables.
3. Policy, Standards, and Regulation – instrument to ensure equitable access to
health services, essential medicines, and technologies of assured quality,
availability, and safety.
4. Governance for Health – instrument to establish the mechanisms for efficiency,
transparency, and accountability, and prevent opportunities for fraud.
5. Human Resources for Health – instrument to ensure that all Filipinos have
access to professional health care providers the appropriate level of care.

6. Health Information – instrument to establish a modern information system that
shall:
a. Provide evidence for policy and program development
b. Support for immediate and efficient provision of health care and
management of province-wide health systems.
o Public Health Programs
1. Reproductive and Maternal Health
- Pre-pregnancy services and care during pregnancy, delivery, and
postpartum period
2. Expanded Garantisadong Pambata (child health)
- Advocacy for exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life,
newborn screening program, immunization, nutrition services, and
integrated management of childhood illness.
3. Control of communicable disease
- Tuberculosis, mosquito-borne diseases, rabies, schistosomiasis, and
sexually transmitted infections
4. Control of Noncommunicable or Lifestyle Diseases
5. Environmental Health
CHAPTER 10: MATERNAL, NEWBORN, AND CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION

 MATERNAL, NEWBORN, AND CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION STRATEGY
❖ Four Key Strategies of MNCHN
1. Ensuring universal access to and utilization of MNCHN core package services
and interventions directed not only to individual women of reproductive age
and newborns at different stages of the life cycle.
2. Establishment of a service delivery network at all levels of care.
3. Organized use of instruments for health systems development
4. Rapid build-up of institutional capacities of DOH and PhilHealth.
❖ MNCHN aims to achieve the following intermediate results:

1. Every pregnancy is wanted, planned, and supported
2. Every pregnancy is adequately managed throughout its course.
3. Every delivery is facility-based and managed by skilled birth attendants or
skilled health professionals
4. Every mother-and-newborn pair secures proper postpartum and newborn
care with smooth transition to women’s health care package for the mother
and child survival package for the newborn.
❖ MNCHN CORE PACKAGE OF SERVICES

o A paradigm shift from the risk approach that focuses on identifying pregnant
women at risk of complications to one that considers all pregnant women at
risk of such complications
I. Pre-pregnancy package
1. Nutrition
• Nutritional counselling
• Promotion of use of iodized salt

• Provision of micronutrient supplementation
2. Promotion of healthy lifestyle including advice relative to smoking
cessation, healthy diet, regular exercise, and moderate alcohol drinking
3. Advice on family planning and provision of family planning services
4. Prevention and management of lifestyle-related diseases like diabetes
and cardiovascular disease
5. Prevention and management of infection, including deworming of women
of reproductive age to reduce other causes of iron deficiency anemia
6. Counselling on STD/HIV/AIDS, nutrition, personal hygiene, and
consequences of abortion
7. Adolescent health services
8. Provision of oral health services
II. Prenatal Package

The pregnant woman who avails of the prenatal package obtains adequate care.
1. Prenatal visits
• At least four visits throughout the course of pregnancy
• Prenatal assessment
2. Micronutrient supplementation
3. Tetanus toxoid (TT) immunization
4. Promotion of exclusive breastfeeding, newborn screening (NBS) and
infant immunization.
5. Counseling on healthy lifestyle with focus on smoking cessation, healthy
diet and nutrition, regular exercise, STI and HIV prevention and oral
health.
6. Early detection and management of complications of pregnancy.
7. Prevention and management of other conditions where indicated:
hypertension, anemia, diabetes, TB, malaria, schistosomiasis, and
STI/HIV/AIDS
8. Birth planning and promotion of facility-based delivery.
III. Childbirth Package

1. Skilled birth attendant/ skilled health professional- assisted delivery
and facility-based deliveries including the use of partograph
2. Proper management of pregnancy and delivery complications and
newborn complications.
3. Access to basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) or
comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care (CEmONC)
services.
IV.Postpartum Package
1. Postpartum visits: within 72hours and on the 7th day postpartum check for
conditions such as bleeding or infections
2. Micronutrient supplementation
3. Counseling on nutrition, childcare, family planning and other available
services

V. Newborn (First Week of Life) Care Package
1. Interventions within the first 90 minutes
• Immediate thorough frying
• Skin-to-skin contact between mother and newborn.
• Cord clamping 1-3 minutes after birth is recommended
• Early initiation of breastfeeding (within 1 hour after birth)
• Non-separation of baby from the mother (rooming-in)
2. Essential newborn care after 90 minutes to 6 hours
• Vit. K prophylaxis
• Examination of baby for birth injury, malformation, or defects
• Additional care for a small baby
3. Care prior to discharge; (after 90 min)
• Support unrestricted, per demand breastfeeding day and night.
• Ensure warmth of the baby.
• Washing and bathing
• Look for danger signs and start resuscitation if necessary, keep
warm, give first doses of IM antibiotics give oxygen
• Look for signs of jaundice and infection
• Perform newborn screening and newborn hearing screening
• Provide instruction on discharge
VI.Childcare Package
1. Immunizations
2. Nutrition
• Exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months
• Sustained breastfeeding up to 24 months with complementary
feeding
• Micronutrient supplementation
3. IMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses)
4. Injury prevention
5. Oral health
6. Insecticide-treated nets for mothers and children in malaria-endemic
areas
❖ THREE LEVELS OF CARE IN THE MNCHN SERVICE DELIVERY NETWORK

1. Community level service providers or community health care team.
 TWO BASIC FUNCTIONS
• Navigations functions
• Basic Delivery functions
2. A BemONC-capable facility
 6 signal obstetric function
→ Parenteral administration of oxytocin in the third stage of labor
→ Parenteral administration of loading dose of anticonvulsant
→ Performance of assisted deliveries (imminent breech delivery)
→ Removal of retained products or conception
→ Manual removal of retained placenta
 Emergency newborn interventions
→ Newborn resuscitation

→ Oxygen support
3. A CEmONC-capable Facility
 Can perform the six-signal function as in BEmONC as well as CS delivery
services, blood blanking and transfusion services and other highly
specialized obstetric interventions.
 THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAM

❖ RA 10254 – Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act Of 2002
▪ Informally known as Reproductive Health Law
▪ Signed by Benigno Aquino III on January 17, 2013
▪ Refers to the constellation of methods, techniques, and services that contribute
to reproductive health and wellbeing by preventing and solving reproductive
health problems.
❖ The reproductive health program of the Philippines adopts the life-span approach. It
recognizes the fact that RH is a concern that affects different age brackets.
❖ 10 Elements of Reproductive Health Care

1. Family planning
2. Maternal and child health and nutrition
3. Prevention and control of reproductive tract infections, STIs and HIV/AIDS
4. Adolescents reproductive health
5. Prevention and management of abortions and its complications
6. Prevention and management of breast and reproductive tract cancers and other
gynecological conditions.
7. Education and counseling on sexuality and sexual health
8. Men’s reproductive health and involvement
9. Prevention and management of violence against women and children
10. Prevention and treatment of infertility and sexual dysfunction
 THE PHILIPPINE FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM (PFFP)

❖ The Family Planning program started in the 1970s as a family planning service delivery
component to achieve fertility reductions.
❖ Family Planning is means to prevent high- risk pregnancies brought about by the
following conditions:
1. Being too young (less than 18 years old) or too old (over 34 years old)
2. Having had too many (4 or more) pregnancies
3. Having closely spaced (too close) pregnancies (less than 36 months)
4. Being too ill or unhealthy/ too sick or having an existing disease or disorder like
iron deficiency anemia.
❖ Four Pillars of PFFP

The guiding principles of the FP program also called the four pillars of the
(PFFP) are as follows.
1. Responsible parenthood
2. Respect for life
3. Birth spacing

4. Informed choice
❖ Client Counseling and Assessment

Counseling must be based on client’s needs; the following are essential content
of the nurse-client interaction regarding the chosen method
1. Effectiveness
2. Advantages and disadvantages
3. Possible side effects, complications and signs that require an immediate visit to
the health facility
4. How to use the chosen method
5. Prevention of STIs
6. When to return to the health facility
❖ Benefits of Family Planning

o Benefits to mothers
1. Enables her to regain her health after delivery
2. Gives enough time and opportunity to love and provide attention to her
husband and children
3. Gives more time for her family and own personal advancement
4. When suffering from an illness, gives enough time for treatment and
recovery
o Benefits for children
1. Lightens the burden and responsible in supporting his family
2. Enables him to give his children their basic needs
3. Gives him time for his family and own personal advancement
❖ Family Planning Methods

I. Natural Family Planning Methods
▪ Lactation Amenorrhea method (LAM)
▪ Fertility awareness-based (FAB) method
→ Based on scientific analysis of fertile time in the woman’s
menstrual cycle.
1. Billings’ ovulation method (BOM)
2. Basal body temperature (BBT)
3. Symptothermal method
4. Standard Days Methods (SDM)
5. Two-day Method
II. Artificial Family Planning Methods
1. Combined oral contraceptives (COCs)
2. Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate
3. Intrauterine device (IUD)
4. Barrier method
→ Condom, diaphragms, cervical caps, and spermicides
5. Permanent Method
→ Vasectomy
→ Bilateral tubal ligation (BTL)

 NEWBORN SCREENING
❖ Newborn Screening (NBS)
o A simple procedure to find out if a baby has a congenital metabolic disorder that
may lead to mental retardation or death if left untreated.
o Ideally done on the 48th -72nd hour of life; also, be done after 24hours of life but
not later than 3days from the complete delivery of the newborn.
❖ RA 9288 – also known as NEWBORN SCREENING ACT OF 2004
❖ Newborn Screening Reference Center (NSRC)

o Responsible for the national testing database and case registries, training,
technical assistance, and continuing education for laboratory staff.
o Located at the following sites:
1. NSC-NIH for the NCR and Luzon: National Institute of Health, University
of the Philippines Manila, Pedro Gil St., Ermita, Manila
2. NSC-Central Luzon for Region I, II, III and CAR: Angeles University
Foundation Medical Center, Angeles City.
3. NSC-Visayas: Western Visayas State University Medical Center, Iloilo City
4. NSC-Mindanao: Southern Philippines Medical Center, Davao City
❖ Disorders detected by NBS and their long-term effects

LONG-TERM
DISORDER DEFINITION
EFFECTS
1. Congenital - Inability to produce thyroid • Severe Mental
Hypothyroidism hormone Retardation
2. Congenital Adrenal - Inherited disorder • Death
Hyperplasia - Inability of the adrenal gland to
secrete cortisol or aldosterone,
or both.
3. Galactosemia - Inherited disorder • Death
- The body unable to metabolize • Cataracts
galactose and the person is
unable to tolerate any form of
milk.
4. Phenylketonuria - Without the ability to properly • Severe Mental
break down an amino acid Retardation
called phenylalanine.
5. Glucose-6- - The red blood cells break down • Severe Anemia
phosphate- when the body is exposed to • Kernicterus
dehydrogenase certain drugs, food, severe
(C6PD Deficiency) stress or severe infection.
6. Maple Syrup Urine - Unable to break down amino • Death
Disease acid leucine, isoleucine, and
valine
- Urine of affected person smells
like maple syrup.

❖ Newborn Screening Procedure:
i. The specimen is obtained through a heal prick.
ii. A few drops of blood are taken, blotted on a special absorbent filter card and then sent
iii. to NSC
iv. Blood sample may be obtained by:
✓ Physician
✓ Nurse
✓ Medical technologist
✓ Trained midwife
❖ Newborn Screening is available in:

• Hospitals
• Lying-in clinics
• RHUs
• Health centers
• Some private clinics
❖ Newborn Screening Results

o Normal (Negative)
▪ Results are available 7 – 14 working days from the time samples are received at
the NSC.
o Positive
▪ Results should be relayed to the parents immediately
▪ Must be referred to a specialist for confirmatory testing and further
management.
 NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING

▪ The early detection of congenital hearing loss among newborns and referral for early
intervention services to infants with hearing loss.
▪ Among 3months and below.
▪ Early detection and intervention facilitate speech development and prevent future learning
and psychosocial difficulties of the child with hearing impairment.
▪ RA 9709 – also known as the UNIVERSAL NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING AND
INTERVENTION
 EXPANDED PROGRAM ON IMMUNIZATION (EPI)

➢ EPI- established in 1976
➢ To ensure that infant/children and mothers have access to routinely recommended vaccines.
➢ RA 10152 – AKA MANDATORY INFANT AND CHILDREN HEALTH IMMUNIZATION ACT OF 2011
➢ RA 7846 – provided for COMPULSARY IMMUNIZATION AGAINST HEPATITIS B FOR INFANTS
AND CHILDREN BELOW 8 YEARS OLD.
➢ The specific goals of the program:

1. To immunize all infants/children against the most common vaccine-preventable
diseases,
2. To sustain the polio-free status of the Philippines

3. To eliminate measles infection.
4. To eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus.
5. To control diphtheria, pertussis, hepatitis B, and German measles.
6. To prevent extrapulmonary TB among children.
➢ Formulas to Estimate Eligible Population:

o Estimated number of infant = total population x 2.7%
o Estimated number 12–59 month old children = total population x 10.8%
o Estimated number of pregnant women = total population x 3.5%
➢ EPI vaccines and the special diluents have the following cold chain requirements:
• OPV: -15 to 25oC; must be stored in the freezer.
• All other vaccines must be stored in the refrigerator at a temperature of +2 to +8oC
• Hepatitis B, Pentavalent vaccine, Rotavirus vaccine and TT should not be stored in the
freezer. Wrap the container with paper before putting in the vaccine bag with cold
packs.
• Keep diluents cold by storing them in the refrigerator in the lower or door shelves
➢ Fully Immunized Children (FIC)

o Those who are given:
▪ Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)
▪ 3 doses of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV)
▪ 3 doses of Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus Vaccine
▪ 3 doses of Hepatitis B
▪ 3 doses of Pentavalent vaccine (Contains five antigens – diphtheria, pertussis,
tetanus, and hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b)
▪ 1 dose of anti-measles.
➢ Completely Immunized Children
o Those who completed their immunization schedule at the age of 12 -23 months.
➢ A child protected at birth (CPAB) – used to describe a child whose mother has received:
a. 2 doses of tetanus toxoid during this pregnancy, provided that the 2nd dose was given at
least a month prior to delivery; or
b. at least 3 doses of tetanus toxoid any time prior to pregnancy with this child.
 INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING

✓ EO no. 51 – also known as the MILK CODE
✓ EO no. 382 – provided for the observance of the NATIONAL FOOD FORTIFICATION day in
November 7.
✓ RA 7600 – also known as ROOMING-IN AND BREASTFEEDING ACT
✓ RA 8172 – also known as ASIN (ACT FOR SALT IODIZATION NATIONWIDE)
✓ RA 8976 – also known as the PHILIPPINE FOOD FORTIFICATION ACT
✓ RA 10028 – also known as EXPANDED BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION ACT
✓ AO 36, s2010 – also known as EXPANDED GARANTISADONG PAMBATA

❖ DIFFERENT FEEDING PRACTICES:
• Exclusive breastfeeding
▪ Infant receives breast milk and allows to receive oral hydration salt, drops,
syrups (minerals, vitamins, medicines) but nothing else.
• Predominant breastfeeding
▪ Infant’s predominant source of nourishment has been breast milk, including
milk expressed or from a we nurse as the predominant source of nourishment.
• Complementary feeding
▪ The process of giving the infant food and liquids, along with breast milk, when
breast milk is no longer sufficient to meet the infant’s nutritional requirements.
• Bottle feeding
▪ The child is given food or drink from a bottle with nipple/teat.
• Early Initiation of Breastfeeding
▪ Initiating breastfeeding of the newborn after birth within 90mins of life in
accordance with essential newborn care protocol.
❖ Nutritional assessment includes any or several of the following:
• Anthropometry
• Weight-for-age
• Length/Height-for-age
• Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)
• Clinical examination
• Biochemical examination
❖ Recommended infant and young child feeding practices:
• Early initiation of breastfeeding
• Exclusive breastfeeding for the first months, which possible, except for a few medical
conditions, such as galactosemia.
• Extent breastfeeding up to 2 years and beyond.
• Appropriate complementary feeding with the use of locally available and culturally
acceptable foods
• Micronutrients supplementation
• Universal salt iodization since ordinary salt contains very little iodine that cannot
provide for the needs of the human body
• Food fortification
❖ Benefits of breastfeeding to the infant
• It provides all the nutrients an infant need for growth in the 1st 6months.
• It carries antibodies from the mother to help combat disease.
• It prevents diarrhea because of reduce risk from contaminated formula as well as of the
antibodies in the breast milk.
• It lowers risk of developing later in life chronic conditions, like allergies, asthma,
obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
• It provides benefit for intellectual and motor development of the infant
❖ Benefits of breastfeeding to the mother:
• Early initiation of breastfeeding helps to contract the uterus and therefore reduce
bleeding.
• It may help in the return to pre-pregnancy weight.
• Exclusive breastfeeding delays the return of fertility
• A long-term benefit is a lower risk of premenopausal breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

❖ Types of position when breast feeding the baby:
1. Cradle hold – the mother sits with her arms supported and, using her arm on the same
side as the nursing breast cradle the infant of her body.
2. Cross-cradle hold – same to the cradle hold, except that the mother cradles her infant
with arm on the opposite side of the nursing breast.
3. Football, clutch, or underarm hold – the mother sits, hold the infant between her flexed
arm and body, positions the infant facing her, and supports the infant’s head with her
open arm. Twins may be fed at the same time using the double-football hold.
4. Side-lying hold – the mother lies on her side with one arm supporting her head. The
infant lies aside beside the mother, facing the breast. The mother grasps and offers her
breast to the infant with the other hand. Once the infant has latched on, she supports her
infant’s body.
❖ Ensuring the nutritional needs are met requires complementary foods be:
• Timely – complementary foods are introduced when the energy and nutrients exceed
when can be provided through exclusive and frequent breastfeeding.
• Adequate – they should provide sufficient energy, protein, and macronutrients to meet a
growing child’s nutritional goal.
• Properly fed – food are given consistent with a child’s signal of appetite and satiety, and
that meal frequency and feeding method – actively encouraging the child, even during
illness, to consume sufficient food using finger, spoon, or self-feeding – are suitable for
age.
 DEWORMING
❖ Deworming
▪ Children aged 1-2years is done every 6months.
▪ 12-24months are given Abendazole 200mg or half tablet or Mebendazole 500mg
tablet.
❖ Possible adverse effect of antihelminthic drug:
• Local sensitivity or allergy – give an antihistamine.
• Mild abdominal pain – give an antispasmodic
• Diarrhea – give oral rehydration solution
• Erratic worm migration – pull out worms from mouth/nose or from other orifices.
 Vitamin A Capsule – 100,000 IU is given to 6-11months; 200,000 IU is given to 12-71months old.
 INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS (IMCI)

❖ IMCI – initiated by WHO, offers simple and effective methods for child survival, healthy
growth, and development, and is based on the combined community and health facility.
❖ 3 Main components of IMCI strategy:

1. Improvements in case management skills of health care staffs.
2. Improvements in health systems needed for effective management of childhood
illness.
3. Improvements in family and community practices.
❖ The IMCI protocol guides the health worker in:
• Assessing signs that indicate severe disease

• Assessing the child’s nutrition immunization and feeding.
• Teaching parents how to care for a child at home
• Counseling parents to solve feeding problems
• Advising parents about when to return to a health facility.
❖ Elements of IMCI Case Management:

1. Assess by checking first for danger signs including the other health problems.
2. Classify a child’s illness using a color-coded triage system. Each illness is
classified according to whether it requires:
• Urgent referral treatment and referral (PINK)
• Specific medical treatment and advices (YELLOW)
• Simple advice on home management (GREEN)
3. Identify specific treatments for the child
4. Provide practical treatment instruction including teaching the mother on how to
give oral drugs, how to feed and give fluids during illness, and how to treat local
infections at home.
5. Counsel to solve any feeding problems found. Then counsel the mother about
her own health.
6. When a child is brought back to the clinic as requested, give follow-up care and,
if necessary, reassess the child for new problems.
CHAPTER 11: CONTROL OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
 Top 10 Causes of Mortality in the Philippines (2009)

1. Diseases of the heart
2. Cerebrovascular diseases
3. Malignant neoplasm
4. Pneumonia
5. Tuberculosis
6. COPD
7. Diabetes
8. Nephritis, Nephrotic syndrome
9. Assault
10. Certain conditions arising from perinatal period

 NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE (NCD)
→ A medical condition that is non-infectious and non-transmissible
→ “lifestyle-related diseases”
❖ Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases

i. Physical inactivity
ii. Cigarette smoking
iii. Unhealthy eating
iv. Excessive alcohol drinking
v. Viruses
vi. Radiation
❖ Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases
1. Promote physical activity and exercise
2. Promote health diet and nutrition
3. Promote a smoke-free environment
4. Stress management
 NCD PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM

❖ Goal
▪ Reduce the toll of morbidity, disability, and premature deaths due to
chronic, non-communicable lifestyle-related disease.
❖ Objectives:
1. Analyze the social, economic, political, and behavioral determinants of
NCD.
2. Reduce exposure of individuals and population to major determinants of
NCD while preventing emergence of preventable common risk factors.
3. Strengthen health care for people with NCD through health sector reforms
and cost-effective interventions.
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
I. Cancer (Malignant Neoplasm)
→ A group of various diseases involving unregulated cell growth
→ In cancer, cells divide, grow uncontrollably forming malignant tumors and invade
parts of the body.
→ Breast cancer- leading cancer killer in both men and women and 1st among women
→ Lung cancer- was 2nd cause of cancer deaths for both sexes combined and 1st among
men
❖ Warning Signals of Cancer (American Cancer Society) — “CAUTION US”
C- change in bowel or bladder habits
A- a sore throat that does not heal
U- unusual bleeding or discharge
T- thickening or lump in breast
I- Indigestion or difficulty swallowing
O- Obvious change in a wart or mole
N- Nagging cough or hoarseness
U- Unexplained anemia
S- Sudden weight loss

II. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
→ Disease of the lungs in which the airways narrow over time
→ Smoking is a strong risk factor
III. Diabetes
o A group of metabolic disease in which an individual has high blood sugar because the
pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or the cells do not respond to the insulin
produced.
o Diagnosis:
▪ FBS of >7.0 mmol/L (>126 mg/dL) or
▪ 2- hour blood sugar test of >11.1 mmol/L (200 mg/dL)
o Symptoms:
▪ 3Ps- polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia
▪ Weight loss
▪ Vision changes
▪ Fatigue
IV. Mental Health

→ State of social well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential
(self-image), can cope with the normal stresses of life (resiliency), can work
productively and fruitfully (productivity and creativity), and is able to make a contribution
to her or his community (sense of purpose).
→ Stressful life events, difficult family background, brain diseases, heredity, and medical
problems like kidney and liver failure are conditions that can lead to mental illness
❖ 4 Facets of Mental Health Problems:

1. Defined or Direct Burden – burden affecting persons with mental disorders such
as cost of treatment, quality of life, and disability.
2. Undefined or Indirect Burden – burden relating to the impact of mental health
problems to others such as family member or the community who care for the
patient.
3. Hidden Burden – stigma and violations of human rights to persons affected with
mental health problems.
4. Future or Health Burden – burden resulting for the aging population or increasing
social problems such as the development of complication or other medical
illnesses or death.
❖ National Mental Health Program
o Vision: Better quality of life through total health care for all Filipinos
o Mission: A rational and unified response to mental health
o Goal: Quality mental health care
V. Disability
• General term for impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions.
• CRDP- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
o Aim: promote, protect, and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote
respect for their inherent dignity.

• R.A. 7277- Magna Carta for Disabled Persons
• National Health Program for Persons With Disabilities
o Vision
▪ Improve the total well-being of persons with disabilities (PWDs)
o Mission
▪ The Department of Health (DOH) shall ensure the development,
implementation, and monitoring of relevant and efficient health programs
and systems for PWDs that are available, affordable, and acceptable.
o Goals:
1. Reduce the prevalence of all types of disabilities.
2. Promote and protect the human rights and dignity of PWDs and their
caregivers.
o Objectives:
1. Develop an integrated national health and human rights program and
local models to serve the special health needs.
2. Pursue the implementation and monitoring of laws and policies for PWDs
such as the accessibility law, human rights, and other related laws.
3. Ensure that health facilities and services are equitable, available,
accessible, acceptable and affordable to PWDs through the development
and implementation of essential health packages that suitable to their
special needs and enrollment into the National Health Insurance
Program.
4. Initiate and strengthen collaboration and partnership among
stakeholders to improve the facilities devoted to the management and
rehabilitation of PWDs and upgrade the capabilities of health
professionals and frontline workers to cater to their special needs.
2. Continue and fast-track the registration of PWDs in order to generate
data for accurate planning and implementation of programs.
 Visual Impairment
→ Low Vision
▪ defined as visual acuity of less than 6/18, but equal to or better than 3/60, or a
corresponding visual field loss to less than 20 degrees in the better eye with
best possible correction
→ Blindness
▪ defined as visual acuity of less than 3/60, or a corresponding visual field loss to
less than 10 degrees in the better eye with best possible correction.
❖ Vision 2020: The Right to Sight

o Global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness
o Aim: to develop a sustainable comprehensive health care system that will
ensure the best possible vision for all, thus improving their quality of life.
❖ National Prevention of Blindness Program
o Vision: All Filipinos enjoy the right sight by year 2020.
o Mission: The DOH, local health units, partners, and stakeholder commit to:
1. Strengthen partnership among and with stakeholders to eliminate
avoidable blindness in the Philippines.
2. Empower communities to take proactive roles in the promotion of eye
health and prevention of blindness.

3. Provide access to quality eye care services for all.
4. Work toward poverty alleviation in the Philippines through the
provision of quality eye care.
o Goal:
▪ Reduce the prevalence of avoidable blindness in the Philippines through
the provision of quality eye care.
o Objectives:
1. Increase cataract surgical rate from 730 to 2,500 by the year 2010.
2. Reduce visual impairment due to refractive errors by 10% by the year
2010.
3. Reduce the prevalence of visual disability in children from 0.30% to
0.20% by the 2010.
LAWS AFFECTING CONTROL OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Law Description
Executive Order No. National Healthy Lifestyle Advocacy Campaign. Declaring
958 the years 2005- 2015 as the decade of healthy lifestyle.
R.A. 1054 Free emergency medical and dental treatment for
employees.
R.A. 9211 Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003. Regulates the packaging,
use, sale, distribution, and advertisements of tobacco
products.
R.A. 6425 Penalties for Violations of the Dangerous Drug Act of
1972.
R.A. 9165 Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002.
R.A. 8423 Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997.
Administrative Order Guidelines for the Implementation of the National
No. 179 series of 2004 Prevention of Blindness Program.
Department Creation of a Program Management Committee for the
Personnel Order No. National Prevention of Blindness Program.
2005-0547
Proclamation No. 40 Declaring the month of August every year as “Sight
Saving Month”.
R.A. 7277 Magna Carta for Disabled Persons. An act providing for
the rehabilitation and self-reliance of disabled persons
and their integration into the mainstream of society and
for other purposes.
R.A 10352 An act restructuring the Excise Tax on Alcohol and
Tobacco, which prescribes higher tax rates on tobacco
and alcohol products. The law imposes higher taxes on
cigarette and alcohol products for the next five years. It
aims to restructure the existing taxes imposed on alcohol
and tobacco goods, which are potential revenue source
that will help fund Universal Health Care Program of the
government, and to discourage people from engaging in
vices.

CHAPTER 12: CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
❖ Communicable Diseases
o Primary cause of mortality gap between rich and poor countries
❖ About 60% of deaths caused by communicable diseases can be attributed to:
▪ HIV/AIDS
▪ Malaria
▪ Tuberculosis
▪ Measles
▪ Diarrheal disease
▪ Acute respiratory infection
❖ Goal of WHO
1. Prevention of disease
2. Prevention of disability and death from infection
3.Prevention through immunization
 CHAIN OF INFECTION
❖ Pathogen or Causative Agent
▪ Biologic agent (organism) capable of causing disease
▪ Eliminate organism by:
• Sterilizing surgical instruments and anything that touches sterile
spaces of the body
• Using good food safety methods
• Providing safe drinking water
• Vaccinating people so they do not become reservoirs of illness
• Treating people who are ill
❖ Reservoir
▪ Any person, animal, arthropod, plant, soil, or substance (or combination of
these) in which an causative agent normally lives and multiplies, on which it
depends primarily for survival, and where it reproduces in such numbers that it
can be transmitted to a susceptible host
▪ Eliminate reservoirs by:
• Treating people who are ill
• Vaccinating people
• Handling and disposing of body fluids responsibly
• Handling food safely
• Monitoring soil and contaminated water in sensitive areas of the
hospital and washing hands carefully after contact with either
❖ Portal of Exit
▪ The way the causative agent gets out of the reservoir (body fluid or skin)
▪ Reduce risk from portals of exit by:
• Covering coughs and sneezes with a tissue
• Handling body fluids with gloves, then doing hand hygiene
• Keeping draining wounds covered with a dressing
• Not working when you have exudative (wet) lesions or weeping
dermatitis

❖ Mode of Transmission
▪ Any mechanism by which a pathogen is spread from a source or reservoir to a
person unwashed hands, things which are not cleaned between patients,
droplets, or, for a few diseases, the air
▪ Eliminate the mode of transmission by:
• Hand hygiene
• Wearing gloves to minimize contamination of hands and discarding
them after each patient
• Cleaning, disinfection, or sterilization of equipment used by more than
one patient
• Cleaning of the environment, especially high-touch surfaces
❖ Portal of Entry
▪ Hole in the skin that allows the infectious agent to get into the body (mouth,
nose, eyes, rashes, cuts, needlestick injuries, surgical wounds and IV sites)
▪ Protect portals of entry (our own and our patients) by:
• Dressings on surgical wounds
• IV site dressings and care
• Elimination of tubes as soon as possible
• Masks, goggles, and face shields
• Keeping unwashed hands and objects away from the mouth
• Actions and devices to prevent needlesticks
• Food and water safety
❖ Susceptible Host
▪ A person or animal lacking effective resistance to a particular infectious agent
▪ Minimize risk to susceptible hosts by:
• Vaccinating people against illnesses to which they may be exposed
• Preventing new exposure to infection in people who are already ill, are
receiving immunocompromising treatment, or are infected with HIV
• Maintaining good nutrition
• Maintaining good skin condition
• Covering skin breaks
• Encouraging rest and balance in our lives
 MICROBES AGAINST HUMAN

Definition:
❖ Symptoms: Evidence of disease that is experienced or perceived (subjective)
subjective changes in body function noted by patient but not apparent to an observer
❖ Signs: objective evidence of a disease the physician can observe and measure
❖ Syndrome: a specific group of signs and symptoms that accompany a particular
disease
❖ Incidence: the number of people in a population who develop a disease during a
particular time period
❖ Prevalence: the number of people in a population who develop a disease, regardless of
when it appeared refers to both old and new cases

❖ CLASSIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
▪ Based on Behavior within host
• Infectious Disease – Any disease caused by invasion and multiplication of
microorganisms
• Contagious Disease – Disease that easily spreads from one person to
another
▪ Based on Occurrence of Disease

• Sporadic Disease – Disease occurs only occasionally
o Ex: botulism, tetanus
• Endemic Disease – Constantly present in a population, country or
community
o Ex: Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• Epidemic Disease – Acquire disease in a relatively short period greater
than normal number of cases in an area within a short period of time
• Pandemic Disease – Epidemic disease that occurs worldwide
o Ex: HIV infection
▪ Based on Severity or Duration of Disease

• Acute Disease - develops rapidly (rapid onset) but lasts only a short time
o Ex: measles, mumps, influenza
• Chronic Disease – Develops slowly, milder but longer lasting clinical
manifestation
▪ Based on State of Host Resistance

• Primary Infection – acute infection that causes the initial illness
• Secondary Infection – one caused by an opportunistic pathogen after
primary infection has weakened the body’s defenses
 STAGES OF DISEASE
❖ Incubation Period
▪ Time interval between the initial infection and the 1st appearance of any signs
and symptoms
❖ Prodromal Period
▪ Early, mild symptoms of disease
❖ Period of Illness
▪ Overt signs and symptoms of disease
▪ WBC may increase or decrease can result to death if immune response or
medical intervention fails
❖ Period of Decline
▪ Signs and symptoms subside
▪ Vulnerable to secondary infection
❖ Period of Convalescence
▪ Regains strength and the body returns to its
▪ Pre diseased state
▪ Recovery has occurred

 MODE OF TRANSMISSION
o The process of the infectious agent moving from the reservoir to the susceptible host
o Contact Transmission – the most important and frequent mode of transmission

▪ Type of Contact Transmission
I. Direct Contact Transmission
o Person to person transmission of an agent by physical contact
between its source and susceptible host
o No intermediate object involved
o Source → Susceptible Host
▪ Ex: Kissing, touching, sexual contact
II. Indirect Contact Transmission
o Reservoir to a susceptible host by means of a non-living object
(fomites)
o Source → Non-Living Object → Susceptible Host
❖ Susceptible Host
o Recognition of high-risk patients
• Immunocompromised
• DM
• Surgery
• Burns
• Elderly
 BLOOD/VECTOR BORNE DISEASES

o Prevention
▪ Eradicate the source DOH CLEAN
- C – chemically treated mosquito net
- L - larvae eating fish
- E – environmental sanitation
- A – anti-mosquito
- N – neem tree (oregano, eucalyptus)
 DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER

• Caused by dengue virus (Flaviviridae) with 4 serotypes
• Transmitted to a bite of female Aedes aegypti mosquito
• Incubation Period: 2-7 days
• Vectors: (day biting)
▪ Aedes aegypti (breeds in water stored in houses)
▪ Aedes albopictus
▪ Culex fatigans
➢ Clinical Manifestation
▪ First 4 days – Febrile or Invasive stage
• High grade fever, headache, body malaise, conjunctival injection,
vomiting, epistaxis or gum bleeding, positive tourniquet test.
▪ 4th – 7th day – Toxic or Hemorrhagic Stage
• After the lyze of the fever, this is where the complication of dengue is
expected to come out as manifested by:

o Abdominal pain, elena, indicating bleeding in the upper
gastrointestinal tract, Unstable BP, narrow pulse pressure and
shock.
▪ 7th – 10th day – Convalescent or Recovery Stage
• After 3 days of afebrile stage and the patient was properly hydrated and
monitored BP will become stable and laboratory values of platelet count
and bleeding parameters will begin to normalize.
➢ Classification of Dengue Fever (According to Severity)

1. Grade I – Dengue fever, saddleback fever plus constitutional signs and
symptoms plus positive tornique test
2. Grade II – Stage I plus spontaneous bleeding, epistaxis, GI, cutaneous bleeding
3. Grade III – Dengue Shock Syndrome, all of the following signs and symptoms
plus evidence of circulatory failure
4. Grade IV – Grade III plus irreversible shock and massive bleeding
➢ Diagnostics
o Tourniquet test or Rumpel Leeds Test – presumptive test for capillary fragility
- keep cuff inflated for 6-10 mins (child), 10-15 min (adults)
- count the petechiae formation 1 sq inch (>10-15 petechiae/sq inch)
➢ Laboratory Procedures
- CBC
- Bleeding Parameters
- Serologic test
- Dengue blot, Dengue Igm
- Other:
• PT (Prothrombin Time)
• APTT (Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time)
• Bleeding time
• Coagulation time
➢ Management: Symptomatic & Supportive
- Specific Therapy – none
- Symptomatic/Supportive therapy
- Intravenous Fluids (IVF)
- With hemoconcentration, 5-7 ml/kg/hr
- With shock, 10-30ml/kg in <20mins
- Use of Blood/Blood Products
- Platelet concentrate – 1 unit/5-7 kg
- Cryoprecipitate, 1 unit/5 kg
- Flash Frozen Plasma (FFP) – 15ml/kg x 2-4hrs
- Given in patient in impending shock and unresponsive to isotonic or colloid
transfusion.
- Prolonged PT
- Fresh Whole Blood (FWB) – 20cc/kg
- Active bleeding
- check serum calcium
- PRBC 10cc/kg

➢ Nursing Intervention
- Paracetamol (no aspirin)
- Giving of cytoprotectors
- Gastric Lavage
- Trendelenburg position for shock
- Nasal packing with epinephrine
- No intramuscular injections
- manage anxiety of patient and family
➢ Preventive measures
o Department of Health program for the control of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
▪ S—eek and destroy breeding places
▪ S—ay no to left and right defogging
▪ S—eek early consultation
 FILARIASIS
▪ The disease often progresses to become chronic, debilitating and disfiguring disease
since its symptoms are unnoticed or unfamiliar to health workers.
▪ High rates in region V (bicol), VIII (samar and leyte, II (davao)
▪ Wuchereria bancrofti and Bulgaria malayi
▪ Transmitted to the bite of infected female mosquito (Aedes, Anopheles, Mansonia)
▪ The larvae are carried in the blood stream and lodged in lymphatic vessels and lymph
glands where they mature in adult form
o Two biological type

▪ Nocturnal – Microfilaria circulate in peripheral blood at night (10pm – 2am)
▪ Diurnal – Microfilaria circulate in greater concentration at daytime
o Acute stage
▪ Filarial fever and lymphatic inflammation that occurs frequently as 10
times per year and usually abates spontaneously after 7 days
▪ Lymphadenitis (Inflammation of the lymph nodes)
▪ Lymphangitis (Inflammation of the lymph vessels)
o Chronic Stage (10-15 years from the onset of the first attack)
▪ Hydrocele (Swelling of the scrotum)
▪ Lymphedema (Temporary swelling of the upper and lower extremities)
▪ Elephantiasis (enlargement and thickening of the skin of the lower or
upper extremities)
➢ Laboratory Diagnosis
- Blood smear – presence of microfilaria
- Immunochromatographic Test (ICT)
- Eosinophil count
➢ Management Guidelines
- Specific Therapy
- Diethylcarbamazine (DEC) 6mg/KBW in divided doses for 12 consecutive days
- Ivermectin (Mectizan)

- Supportive Therapy
- Paracetamol
- Antihistamine for allergic reaction due to DEC
- Vitamin B complex
- Elevation of infected limb, elastic stocking
 DEC should be taken immediately after meals

 It may cause loss of vision, night blindness, or tunnel vision with prolonged used.
 Ivermectin is best taken as single dose with a full glass of water in an empty
stomach.
 Cannot be used in patient with asthma
➢ Preventive Measures
o Health teachings
o Environmental Sanitation
 LEPTOSIPROSIS (WEIL’S DISEASE)

➢ a zoonotic systemic infection caused by Leptospira, that penetrate intact and
abraded skin through exposure to water, wet soil contaminated with urine of
infected animals.
➢ 2 TYPES:
- Anicteric Type (without jaundice)
- manifested by fever, conjunctival injection
- signs of meningeal irritation
- Icteric Type (Weil Syndrome)
- Hepatic and renal manifestation
- Jaundice, hepatomegaly
- Oliguria, anuria which progress to renal failure
- Shock, coma, CHF
- Convalescent Period
➢ Diagnosis
o Clinical history and manifestation
o Culture
o Blood: during the 1st week
o CSF: from the 5th to the 12th day
o Urine: after the 1st week until convalescent period
o LAAT (Leptospira Agglutination Test)
o Other laboratory tests:
▪ BUN, CREA, liver enzymes
➢ Treatment
o Specific
o Penicillin 50000 units/kg/day
o Tetracycline 20-40mg/kg/day
o Non-specific
o Supportive and symptomatic

o Administration of fluids
o Peritoneal dialysis for renal failure
o Educate public regarding the mode of transmission, avoid swimming or
wadding in potentially contaminated waters and use proper protective
equipment.
➢ Nursing Responsibilities
1. Dispose and isolate urine of patient.
2. Environmental sanitation like cleaning the esteros or dirty places with
stagnant water, eradication of rats and avoidance of wading or bathing in
contaminated pools of water.
3. Give supportive and asymptomatic therapy
4. Administration of fluids and electrolytes.
5. Assist in peritoneal dialysis for renal failure patient
▪ The most important sign of renal failure is presence of oliguria.
 MALARIA
- AKA “King of the Tropical Disease”
- An acute and chronic infection caused by protozoa plasmodia
- Infectious but not contagious
- Transmitted through the bite of female Anopheles mosquito
▪ Malaria Exacts Heavy Toll in Africa
▪ There are 300-500M new cases annually
▪ Over 1M die every year – almost 3000 per day
▪ 90% of deaths are in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Vector: (night biting)
▪ Anopheles mosquito or minimus flavire
➢ Life cycle:
- Sexual cycle/sporogony (mosquito)
- sporozoites injected into humans
- Asexual cycle/schizogony (human)
- gametes is the infective stage taken up by biting mosquito
➢ Plasmodium vivax
- more widely distributed
- causes benign tertian malaria
- chills and fever every 48 hours in 3 days
➢ Plasmodium falciparum
- common in the Philippines
- Causes the most serious type of malaria because of high parasitic densities in blood.
- Causes malignant tertian malaria
➢ Plasmodium malaria
- much less frequent
- causes quartan malaria, fever and chills every 72 hrs in 4 days
➢ Plasmodium ovale
- Rarely seen

➢ Pathology
- the most characteristic pathology of malaria is destruction of red blood cells,
hypertrophy of the spleen and liver and pigmentation of organs.
- The pigmentation is due to the phagocytosis of malarial pigments released into the
blood stream upon rupture of red cells
o Uncomplicated
▪ Fever, chills, sweating every 24 – 36 hours
o Complicated
▪ Sporulation or segmentation and rupture of erythrocytes occurs in the brain and
visceral organs.
▪ Cerebral malaria
▪ Changes of sensorium, severe headache and vomiting
▪ seizures
➢ Clinical Manifestation Stages

1. Cold stage – 10-15 mins, chills, shakes
2. Hot stage – 4-6 hours, recurring high grade fever, severe headache, vomitting,
abdominal pain, face is blue
3. Diaphoretic Stage – excessive sweating
➢ Diagnosis
- Malarial smear
- Quantitative Buffy Coat (QBC)
• Travel in endemic areas
➢ Treatment: Determine the species of parasite

▪ Objectives of treatment
1. Destroy all sexual forms of parasite to cure the clinical attack
2. Destroy the exoerythrocytes (EE) to prevent relapse
3. Destroy gametocytes to prevent mosquito infections
▪ Treatment for P. falciparum

1. chloroquine tablet (150mg/base/tab) Day 1,2,3 (4,4,2)
2. Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine 500mg/25mg/tab, 3tab single dose
3. Primaquine (15mg/tab) 3 tabs single dose
▪ Treatment for P. vivax
1. Choloroquine, Day 1,2,3 (4,4,2)
2. Primaquine 1 tab OD for 14 days
▪ Treatment for mixed
1. Chloroquine (4,4,2)
2. Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine 3 tabs once
3. Primaquine 1 tab for 14 days
▪ Multi-drug resistant P. falciparum
• Quinine plus doxycycline, or tetracycline and primaquine

➢ Complications
- Severe Anemia
- Cerebral Malaria
- Hypoglycemia
➢ Prevention and Control

- Eliminate anopheles mosquito vectors
- Advise travelers
- Limit dusk to dawn outdoor exposure
- Insect repellant, nets
➢ Nursing Care
1. Consider a patient with cerebral malaria to be an emergency
▪ Administer IV quinine as IV infusion
▪ Watch for neurologic toxicity from quinine transfusion like delirium, confusion,
convulsion, and coma
2. Watch for jaundice – this is related to the density of the falciparum parasitemia,
3. Evaluate degree of anemia
4. Watch for abnormal bleeding that are may be due to decrease production of clotting
factors by damage liver.
➢ Chemoprophylaxis
- doxycycline 100mg/tab, 2-3 days prior to travel, continue up to 4 weeks upon leaving
the area
- Mefloquine 250mg/tab, 1 week before travel, continue up to four weeks upon leaving
the area
- Pregnant, 1st trimester, chloroquine, 2 tabs weekly, 2 weeks before travel, during stay
and until 4 weeks after leaving
- 2nd and 3rd trimester, Pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine
➢ Category of Provinces
o Category A – no significant improvement in malaria for the past 10 years. (>1000)
▪ Mindoro, Isabela, Rizal, Zamboanga, Cagayan, Apayao, Kalinga
o Category B - <1000/year
▪ Ifugao, Abra, Mt. Province, Ilocos, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Zambales,
Bataan, Laguna
o Category C – significant reduction
▪ Pampanga, La Union, Batangas, Cavite, Albay
 CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES

➢ Inflammation of the meninges
- Caused by bacterial pathogen, N. meningitidis, H. Influenza, Strep. Pneumoniae,
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
➢ PATHOLOGY
o Primary – spread of bacteria from the bloodstream to the meninges
o Secondary – results from direct spread of infection from other sources or focus
of infection.

➢ The disease usually begins as an infection by normal body flora, of:
o The ear (otitis media) - Haemophilus influenzae
o The lung (lobar pneumoniae) - Streptococcus pneumoniae
o The upper respiratory tract (rhinopharyngitis) - Neisseria meningitidis,
Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus, Group B
o The skin and subcutaneous tissue (furunculosis) S. aureus
o The bone (osteomyelitis) - S. aureus
o The intestine - E. coli
➢ Clinical manifestation
- Fever
- Rapid pulse, respiratory arrythmia
- Soreness of skin and muscles
- Convulsion/seizures
- Headache
- Irritability
- Fever
- Neck stiffness
- Pathologic reflexes: Kernig’s, Babinski, Brudzinski
➢ Diagnosis
- Lumbar puncture
- Blood C/S
- Other laboratories
o Lumbar Puncture
- To obtain specimen of CSF
- To reduce ICP
- To Introduce medication
- To inject anesthetic
o CSF Examination
- Fluid is turbid/purulent >1000cc/mm cells
- WBC count increase
- Sugar content markedly reduced
- CHON increased
- Presence of microorganism
- Treatment
Bacterial meningitis
- TB meningitis
- Intensive Phase
- Maintenance Phase
- Fungal meningitis
- cryptococcal meningitis – fluconazole or amphotericin B
➢ Treatment
o Supportive/Symptomatic
o Antipyretic
o Treat signs of increased ICP

o Control of seizures
o Adequate nutrition
o Prevent occurrence of further complication
▪ Maintain strict aseptic technique when doing dressing or lumbar
puncture.
▪ Early symptom should be recognized
▪ Vital signs monitoring
▪ Observe signs of increase ICP
▪ Protect eyes from light and noises
o Maintain normal amount of fluid and electrolyte balance
▪ Note and record the amount of vomitus
▪ Check signs of dehydration
o Prevent Spread of the disease
▪ Having proper disposal of secretions
▪ Emphasize the importance of masking
▪ Explain the importance of isolation
o Ensure patient’s full recovery
▪ Maintain side rails up in episodes of seizures
▪ Prevent sudden jar of bed
▪ Keep patient in a dark room and complete physical rest
▪ Diversional activities and passive exercises
 MENINGOCOCCEMIA
- Caused by Neisseria meningitides, a gram-negative diplococcus
- Transmitted through airborne or close contact
- Incubation is 1-3 days
- Natural reservoir is human nasopharynx
➢ Clinical Manifestation: Sudden onset of high-grade fever, rash and rapid deterioration
of clinical condition within 24 hours
➢ Signs and Symptoms
1. Meningococcemia
- Spiking Fever
- Chills
- Arthralgia
- Sudden appearance of hemorrhagic rash
2. Fulminant Meningococcemia (Waterhouse Friderichsen)
- Septic Shock
- Hypotension
- Tachycardia
- Enlarging Petechial Rash
- Adrenal Insufficiency
➢ Laboratory
o Blood Culture
o Gram stain of peripheral smear, CSF and skin lesions
o CBC

➢ Treatment:
o Antimicrobial
▪ Benzyl Penicillin 250-400000 u/kg/day
▪ Chloramphenicol 100mg/kg/day
o Symptomatic and supportive
▪ Fever
▪ Seizures
▪ Hydration
▪ Respiratory Function
➢ Chemoprophylaxis
1. Rifampicin 300-600mg q 12hrs x 4 doses
2. Ofloxacin 400mg single dose
3. Ceftriaxone 125-250mg IM single dose
- Provide strict isolation
- Wearing of PPE
- Health teaching
- Contact tracing
- Prophylaxis
- Meninggococcal vaccine for high risk patient
 RABIES
• Acute viral encephalomyelitis
• Incubation period is 4 days up to 19 years
• Risk of developing rabies, face bite 60%, upper extremities 15-40%, lower extremities 10%
• 100% fatal
o Pain or numbness at the site of bite
o Fear of water
o Fear of air
➢ 4 STAGES
a. Prodrome - fever, headache, paresthesia,
b. Encephalitic – excessive motor activity, hypersensitivity to bright light, loud
noise, hypersalivation, dilated pupils
c. Brainstem dysfunction – dysphagia, hydrophobia, apnea
d. Death
➢ Diagnosis
o FAT (fluorescent antibody test)
o Clinical history and signs and symptoms

➢ Management
o No treatment for clinical rabies
o Prophylaxis
▪ Postexposure prophylaxis
a. Active vaccine
o Intradermal
o Intramuscular
b. Passive Vaccine
o ERIG – wt in kg x .2 = cc to be injected im (ANST)
o HRIG – wt in Kg x .1333
▪ Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
o Intradermal/Intramuscular
➢ Infection control
- Patient is isolated to prevent exposure of hospital personnel, watchers and
visitors
- PPE
- Preventive Measures
- Education
- Post-exposure and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
 POLIOMYELITIS
- RNA, Polio virus
- Fecal oral route/droplets
- Incubation Period: 7-12 days
- Disease of the lower motor neuron involving the anterior horn cells
- Infantile paralysis
- AKA Heine-Medin disease
➢ Predisposing Factors
- Children below 10 years old
- Male more often affected
- Poor environmental and hygienic conditions
➢ Causative Agent: Legio debilitans

- Brunhilde (permanent)
- Lansing and Leon (temporary)
- May exist in contaminated water, sewage and milk
➢ Signs and Symptoms (Disease Manifestations)

i. Mild Febrile Illness – fever, malaise, sore throat (abortive stage)
ii. Pre-Paralytic Stage - flaccid asymmetrical ascending paralysis (Landry’s sign),
Hayne’s sign (head drop), Pofer’s sign (opisthotonos)
iii. Paralytic Stage – bulbar or spinal

➢ Mode of Transmission
- Droplet infection – in early infection
- Body secretions – nasopharyngeal
- Fecal oral – during late stage
- Flies may act as mechanical vectors
 I – Abortive or inapparent
 II – Meningitis (non-paralytic)
 III – Paralytic (anterior horn of spinal cord)
 IV – Bulbar (encephalitis)
➢ Diagnosis
o Pandy’s test - CSF (increased CHON)
➢ Management
o Active – OPV (Sabin) and IPV (Salk)
o Immunity is acquired for 3 strains
A. Legio brunhilde (fatal)
B. Legio lansing
C. Legio leon
o Respiratory distress
A. Respirator
B. Tracheostomy – life saving procedure when respiratory failure and
inability to swallow are not corrected
C. Oxygen therapy
D. Rehabilitation
 SNAKEBITE
➢ Management
- Lie the victim flat
- ice compress and constructivist materials are contraindicated
- Transport the patient to the nearest hospital
- Antivenom administration in patient with signs of envenomation
- It is never too late to give anti-venom
- Antivenom is given thru intravenous infusion, which is the safest and most
effective route. 2-5 ampules plus D5W to run over 1-2 hours every 2 hours
- Antimicrobial therapy
- Sulbactam/Ampicillin or co-amoxiclav
- Substitute
- Prostigmin IV infusion, 50-100ug/kg/dose q 8hrs
- Atropine
 TETANUS
- Caused by Clostridium tetani, grows anaerobically
- Tetanus spores are introduced into the wound contaminated with soil.
- Incubation period 4-21 days

- Difficulty of opening the mouth (trismus or lockjaw)
- Risus sardonicus (lockjaw)
- Abdominal rigidity
- Localized or generalized muscle spasm
➢ Treatment
i. Neutralize the toxin
ii. Kill the microorganism
iii. Prevent and control the spasm
▪ Muscle Relaxants
▪ Sedatives
▪ Tranquilizers
iv. Tracheostomy
➢ Treatment:
• Tetanus Anti-Toxin (TAT)
o Neonatal Tetanus — 20000 IU, 1/2IM, ½ IV
o Adult, children, and infant — 40,000 IU ½ IM,1/2 IV
• Tetanus immune globulin (TIG)
o Neonates — 1000 IU, IV drip or IM
o Adult, infant, and children — 3000 IU, IV drip or IM
• Antimicrobial Therapy
o Penicillin 1-3 million units q 4hours
▪ Pedia 500,000 – 2 million units q 4 hrs
▪ Neonatal 200000 units IVP q 12hrs or q8hrs
• Control of spasms
o Diazepam
o Chlorpromazine
➢ Nursing care
- Patient should be in a quiet, darkened room, well ventilated.
- Minimal/gentle handling of patient
- Liquid diet via NGT
- Prevent Injury
- Preventive Measures
- Treatment of wounds
- Tetanus toxoid (0,1,6,1,1)
 HEPATO-ENTERIC DISEASES
 Schistosomiasis
- caused by blood flukes, Schistosoma
- has 3 species: S. haematobium, S. Mansoni, S. japonicum
- S. japonicum is endemic in the Philippines (leyte, Samar, Sorsogon, Mindoro,Bohol)
- Intermediate host: Oncomelania Quadrasi
➢ DIAGNOSIS

- Schistosoma eggs in stool
- Rectal bipsy
- Kato Katz
- Ultrasound of HBT
o severe jaundice
o edema
o ascites
o hepatosplenomegaly
o Signs and symptoms of portal hypertension
➢ Management
- Praziquantrel 60mg/kg once dosing
- Supportive and symptomatic
➢ Methods of Control
- Educate the public regarding the mode of transmission and methods of
protection.
- Proper disposal of feces and urine
- Prevent exposure to contaminated water. To minimize penetration after
accidental water exposure, towel dry and apply 70% alcohol.
✓ The organism is pathogenic only in man
 TYPHOID FEVER
- Spread chiefly by carriers, ingestion of infected foods
- Endemic particularly in areas of low sanitation levels
- Occurs more common in May to August
➢ Mode of Transmission:
o Oral-fecal route
➢ Signs and Symptoms:

o Rose spot (abdominal rashes), more than 7days Step ladder fever 40-41 deg,
headache, abdominal pain, constipation (adults), mild diarrhea (children)
➢ Diagnosis
o Blood examination WBC usually leukopenia with lymphocytosis
o Isolation
- Blood culture – 1st week\
- Urine culture – 2nd week
- Stool culture – 3rd week
- Widal test (flagellar H and somatic O antigens)
- 1st week step ladder fever (BLOOD)
- 2nd week rose spot and fastidial
- Typhoid psychosis (URINE & STOOL)

➢ Management: Chloramphenicol, Amoxicillin, Sulfonamides, Ciprofloxacin, Ceftriaxone
➢ Caution:
o Perforation
▪ Symptoms of sharp abdominal pain, abdominal rigidity and absent of
bowel sounds.
▪ Prepare for intestinal decompression or surgical intervention
o Intestinal Hemorrhage - withhold food and give blood transfusion
➢ Nursing Interventions
- Environmental sanitation
- Food handler’s sanitation permit
- Supportive therapy
- Assessment of complication (occurring on the 2nd to 3rd week of infection)
- Typhoid psychosis, typhoid meningitis
- Typhoid ileitis
 HEPATITIS
 HEPATITIS A
▪ Infectious hepatitis, epidemic hepatitis
▪ Young people especially school children are most affected.
➢ Predisposing factors:
▪ Poor sanitation, contaminated water supply, unsanitary preparation of food,
malnutrition, disaster conditions
➢ Incubation Period: 15-50 days
➢ Signs/Symptoms:
- Influenza
- Malaise and easy fatigability
- Anorexia and abdominal discomfort
- Nausea and vomiting
- Fever, CLAD
- Jaundice
➢ Diagnosis
o Anti HAV IgM – active infection
o Anti HAV IgG – old infection; no active disease
➢ Management:
- Prophylaxis
- Complete bed rest
- Low fat diet but high sugar
- Ensure safe water for drinking
- Sanitary method in preparing handling and serving of food.
- Proper disposal of feces and urine.
- Washing hands before eating and after toilet use.
- Separate and proper cleaning of articles used by patient
 HEPATITIS B
▪ DNA, Hepa B virus
▪ Serum heap
▪ Worldwide distribution

▪ Main cause of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer
➢ Incubation Period: 2-5 months

➢ Mode of Transmission
- From person to person through
- contact with infected blood through broken skin and mucous membrane
- sexual contact
- sharing of personal items
- Parenteral transmission through
- blood and blood products
- use of contaminated materials
- Perinatal transmission
➢ High Risk group

- Newborns and infants of infected mothers
- Health workers exposed to handling blood
- Persons requiring frequent transfusions
- Sexually promiscuous individuals
- Commercial sex workers
- Drug addicts
➢ Possible Outcome
- Most get well completely and develop life-long immunity.
- Some become carriers of the virus and transmit disease to others.
- Almost 90% of infected newborns become carriers
 HEPATITIS C
- Post transfusion Hepatitis
- Mode of transmission – percutaneous, BT
- Predisposing factors – paramedical teams and blood recipients
- Incubation period – 2weeks – 6 months
 HEPATITIS D
- Dormant type
- Can be acquired only if with hepatitis B
 HEPATITIS E
- If hepatitis E recurs at age 20-30, it can lead to cancer of the liver
- Enteric hepatitis
- Fecal-oral route
➢ Diagnosis
o Elevated AST or SGPT (specific) and ALT or SGOT
o Increased IgM during acute phase
o (+) or REACTIVE HBsAg = INFECTED, may be acute, chronic or carrier
o (+) HBeAg = highly infectious
o ALT – 1st to increase in liver damage
▪ HBcAg = found only in the liver cells
o (+) Anti-HBc = acute infection
o (+) Anti-HBe = reduced infectiousness
o (+) Anti-HBs = with antibodies (FROM vaccine or disease)

o Blood Chem. Analysis (to monitor progression)
o Liver biopsy (to detect progression to CA)
➢ Management:
- Prevention of spread – Immunization and Health Education
- Enteric and Universal precautions
- Assess LOC
- Bed rest
- ADEK deficiency intervention
- High CHO, Moderate CHON, Low fat
- FVE prevention
➢ Complication:
o Fulminant Hepatitis – signs and symptoms of encephalopathy
o Chronic Hepatitis - lack of complete resolution of clinical symptoms and
persistence of hepatomegaly
o HBsAg carrier
 ERUPTIVE FEVER
I. MEASLES
- Extremely contagious
- Breastfed babies of mothers have 3 months immunity for measles
- The most common complication is otitis media
- The most serious complications are bronchopneumonia and encephalitis
➢ Measles, Rubeola, 7 Day Fever, Hard Red Measles

- RNA, Paramyxoviridae
- Active MMR and Measles vaccine
- Passive Measles immune globulin
- Lifetime Immunity
- Incubation period: 7-14 days
➢ Mode of Transmission: droplets, airborne
o *Contagious 4 days before rash and 4 days after rash
a. Pre-eruptive Stage
→ Patient is highly communicable
→ 4 characteristic features
i. Coryza
ii. Conjunctivitis
iii. Photophobia
iv. Cough
→ Koplik’s spots
→ Stimson’s line
b. Eruptive Stage
→ Maculopapular rashes appear first on the hairline, forehead, post
auricular area the spread to the extremities (cephalocaudal)
→ Rashes are too hot to touch and dry
→ High grade fever and increases steadily at the height of the rashes

c. Stage of Convalescence
→ Rashes fade in the same manner leaving a dirty brownish pigmentation
(desquamation)
→ Black measles – severe form of measles with hemorrhagic rashes,
epistaxis, and melena
 Rashes: Maculopapular, cephalocaudal (hairline and behind the ears to trunk

and limbs), confluent, desquamation, pruritus
➢ Complication
- Bronchopneumonia
- Secondary infections
- Encephalitis
- Increase predisposition to TB
➢ Management
1. Supportive
2. Hydration
3. Proper nutrition
4. Vitamin A
5. Antibiotics
6. Vaccine
➢ Nursing Care
- Respiratory precautions
- Restrict to quite environment
- Dim light if photophobia is present
- Administer antipyretic
- Use cool mist vaporizer for cough
II. GERMAN MEASLES (RUBELLA)

▪ Acute infection caused by rubella virus characterized by fever, exanthem and retro
auricular adenopathy.
▪ Has a teratogenic potential on the fetus of women in the 1st trimester
o Forchheimer Spots (petecchial lesion on buccal cavity or soft palate),
o Cervical lymphadenopathy, low grade fever
o “Oval, rose red papules about the size of pinhead
➢ Diagnosis: clinical
➢ Complications: rare; pneumonia, meningoencephalitis
➢ Complications to pregnant women:
- 1st trimester – Congenital anomalies
- 2nd trimester – Abortion
- 3rd tri – Pre-mature delivery
 Rashes: Maculopapular, Diffuse/not confluent, No desquamation, spreads from

the face downwards
III. ROSEOLA INFANTUM

▪ Exanthem subitum, Sixth disease

▪ Human herpes virus 6
▪ 3mos-4 yo, peak 6-24 mos
➢ Mode of Transmission: probably respiratory secretions

➢ Signs and Symptoms: Spiking fever w/c subsides 2-3 days, Face and trunk rashes
appear after fever subsides, Mild pharyngitis and lymph node enlargement
IV. CHICKEN POX, VARICELLA

▪ Herpes zoster virus (shingles),
varicella zoster virus (chicken pox)
▪ Active: Varicella vaccine
▪ Passive: VZIG, ZIG – given 72-96 hrs
w/n exposure
▪ Lifetime Immunity
▪ Incubation Period: 14-21 days
▪ Mode of Transmission: Respiratory route
→ Contagious 1 day before rash and 6 days after first crop of vesicles
▪ Signs and symptoms: Fever, malaise, headache
▪ Rashes: Maculopapulovesicular (covered areas), Centrifugal, starts on face and
trunk and spreads to entire body
▪ Leaves a pitted scar (pockmark)
▪ Complications: furunculosis, erysipelas, meningoencephalitis
▪ Dormant: remain at the dorsal root ganglion and may recur as shingles (VZV)
▪ Management:
o oral acyclovir
o Tepid water and wet compresses for pruritus
o Aluminum acetate soak for VZV
o Potassium Permanganate (ABO)
▪ Astringent effect
▪ Bactericidal effect
▪ Oxidizing effect (deodorize the rash)
V. SMALLPOX, VARIOLA
- DNA, Pox virus
- Last case 1977
- spreads from man-to-man only
- Active: Vaccinia pox virus
- Incubation period: 1-3 weeks
- Signs and symptoms:Rashes:
• Maculopapulovesiculopustular
• Centripetal
• contagious until all crusts disappeared
- Diagnosis:
• Paul’s test - instilling of vesicular fluid w/ small pox into the cornea; if
keratitis develops, small pox
- Complication: same with chicken pox

VI. KAWASAKI DISEASE
▪ Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
▪ Children younger than 5 years old are primarily affected.
▪ Associated with large coronary blood vessel vasculitits
▪ A febrile, exanthematous, multisystem illness characterized by
• Acute febrile phase manifested by high spiking fever, rash, adenopathy,
peripheral edema, conjunctivitis and exanthem
• Sub-acute phase, thrombocytosis, desquamation and resolution of fever.
• Convalescent stage
➢ Manifestations
- bilateral, non-purulent conjunctivitis
- congested oropharynx, strawberry tongue, erythematous lymphs
- erythematous palms/soles, edematous hands/feet
- periungual desquamation, truncal rash
- CLADP (1 node >1.5cm)
➢ Diagnosis
o CBC: leukocytosis
o Platelet count >400000
o 2D echo (if coronary artery involvement is highly suggestive
o ESR and CRP elevated
➢ Management
- IV Gamma globulin – 2g/kg as single dose for 10-12 hours. Effective to prevent
coronary vascular damage if given within 10 days of onset.
- Salicylates: 80-100mg/kg/24 hours in 4 divided doses
- Symptomatic and supportive therapy
VII. DIPTHERIA
→ Acute contagious disease
→ Characterized by generalized systemic toxemia from a localized inflammatory focus
→ Infants immune for 6 months of life
→ Produces exotoxin
→ Capable of damaging muscles especially cardiac, nerve, kidney and liver
→ Increase incidence prevalence during cooler months
→ Mainly a disease of childhood with peak at 2-5 years, uncommon in >6months
→ Corynebacterium diphtheriae, gram (+), slender, curved clubbed organism “Klebs-
Loeffler Bacillus”
→ Incubation period: 2-6 days
→ Mode of Transmission: direct or indirect contact
1. Nasal – invades nose by extension from pharynx
2. Pharygeal
• Sore throat causing dysphagia
• Pseudomembrane in uvula, tonsils, soft palate
• Bullneck – inflammation of cervical LN
3. Laryngeal
• Increasing hoarseness until aphonia
• wheezing on expiration
• dyspnea
•

→ Diagnosis
o Nose and throat swab using Loeffler’s medium
o Schick test – determine susceptibility or immunity in diphtheria
o Maloney test – determines hypersensitivity to diphtheria toxoid
→ Complications
o Toxic myocarditis – due to action of toxin in the heart muscles (1st 10-14 days)
o Neuritis caused by absorption of toxin in the nerve
o Palate paralysis (2nd week)
o Ocular palsy (5th week)
o Diaphragm paralysis (6-10wk causing GBS)
o Motor and skeletal muscle paralysis
→ Treatment
A. Neutralize the toxins – antidiptheria serum
B. Kill the microorganism – penicillin
C. Prevent respiratory obstruction – tracheostomy, intubation
→ Treatment
o Serum therapy (Diptheria antitoxin)
▪ Early administration aimed at neutralizing the toxin present in the
general circulation
o Antibiotics
▪ -Penicillin G 100000mg/kg day
▪ Erythromycin 40mg/kg
o Nursing Intervention
- Rest.
- Patient should be confined to bed for at least 2 weeks
- Prevent straining on defecation
- vomiting is very exhausting, do not do procedures that may cause nausea
- Care for the nose and throat
- Ice collar to reduce the pain of sorethroat
- Soft and liquid diet
VIII. WHOOPING COUGH

▪ 100-day fever
▪ Bordetella pertussis, B. parapertussis, B. bronchiseptica, gram (-)
▪ Incubation period: 3-21 days
▪ Mode of Transmission: airborne/droplet
▪ Signs and symptoms
- Invasion or catarrhal stage (7-14days) starts with ordinary cough
- Spasmodic or paroxysmal
- 5-10 spasms of explosive cough (no time to catch breath. A peculiar inspiratory
crowing sound followed by prolonged expiration and a sudden noisy inspiration
with a long high pitched “whoop”
- During attack the child becomes cyanotic and the eyes appear to bulge or
popping out of the eyeball and tongue protrudes
▪ Diagnosis
o WBC count 20000-50000
o Culture with Bordet Gengou Agar

▪ Treatment
- Erythromycin shorten the period of communicability
- Ampicillin if with allergy to erythromycin
- Hyperimmune pertussis gamma globulin in <2 years old (1.25ml IM)
- Control of cough with sedatives
▪ Diagnosis:
o WHO - >21 days cough + close contact w/ pertussis px + (+) culture OR rise
in Ab to FHA or pertussis toxin
o *throat culture w/ Bordet gengou agar
▪ Management
- CBR to conserve energy
- Prevent aspiration
- High calorie, bland diet
- Omit milk and milk product because it increases the mucous
- Refeeding of infants 20 min after vomiting
- Milk should be given at room temperature
▪ Complications
- Bronchopneumonia
- Abdominal hernia
- Severe malnutrition
- TB, asthma
- encephalitis
▪ Pre exposure prophylaxis for Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus
o DPT- 0.5 ml IM
- 1 - 1 ½ months old
2 - after 4 weeks
3 - after 4 weeks
- 1st booster – 18 mos
- 2nd booster – 4-6 yo
- subsequent booster – every 10 yrs thereafter
IX. PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

- The world’s deadliest disease and remains as a major public health problem.
- Badly nourished, neglected and fatigued individuals are more prone
- Susceptibility is highest in children under 3 years
- AKA: Koch’s disease: Galloping consumption
- Weight Loss
- Night Sweats
- Low Fever,
- Non-Productive to Productive Cough
- Anorexia,
- Pleural Effusion and Hypoxemia
- Cervical Lymphadenopathy
➢ PPD – ID
- macrophages in skin take up Ag and deliver it to T cells

- T cells move to skin site, release lymphokines
- activate macrophages and in 48-72 hrs, skin becomes indurated
- > 10 mm is (+)
➢ Diagnosis
- Chest x-ray - cavitary lesion
- Sputum exam
- sputum culture
❖ The National Tuberculosis Control Program

o Vision: A country where TB is no longer a public health problem.
o Mission: Ensure that TB DOTS services are available to the communities.
o Goal: To reduce the prevalence and mortality from TB by half by the year 2015
o Targets:
1. To cure at least 85% of the sputum smear positive TB patient discovered.
2. Detect at least 70% of the estimated new sputum smear positive TB cases.
➢ Management
o short course – 6-9 months
o long course – 9-12 months
o Follow-up
▪ 2 wks after medications – non communicable
o 3 successive (-) sputum - non communicable
o rifampicin - prophylactic
➢ MDT side effects
• r-orange urine
• i-neuritis and hepatitis
• p-hyperuricemia
• e-impairment of vision
• s-8th cranial nerve damage
➢ Methods of Control
❖ Prompt treatment and diagnosis
❖ BCG vaccination
❖ Educate the public in mode of transmission and importance of early diagnosid
❖ Improve social condition
X. PNEUMONIA
1. Community acquired
→ Typical – Strep. Pneumoniae, H. Influenzae type B
→ Atypical Pneumonia – S. Aureus, M. Pneumoniae, L. Pneumophila, P. Cariini
2. Nosocomial – Pseudomonas, S. Aureus
➢ MOT: aspiration, inhalation, hematogenous, direct inoculation, contiguous spread
 CHILDHOOD PNEUMONIA
1. No pneumonia – infant, 60/min and no chest indrawing
2. Pneumonia – young infant >60/min, fast breathing without chest indrawing
3. Severe pneumonia – fast breathing, severe chest indrawing, with one of danger signs

4. Very severe pneumonia – below 2 mos old, fast breathing, chest indrawing, with
danger signs
➢ 4 Danger Signs
o Vomits
o Convulsion
o Drowsiness/lethargy
o Difficulty of swallowing or feeding
➢ Signs and symptoms:
1. Typical – sudden onset Fever of > 38 x 7-10 days, productive cough, pleuritic
chest pain, dullness, inc fremitus, rales
2. Atypical – gradual onset, dry cough, headache, myalgia, sore throat
❖ Watch out for complications; In 24 hours death will occur from respiratory failure
➢ Nursing Diagnosis
▪ Ineffective airway clearance
▪ Ineffective breathing pattern
▪ Impaired gas exchange
▪ Risk for activity intolerance
➢ Management
• Antibiotics, hydration, nutrition, nebulization
• CARI-health teaching
• Nursing Interventions
• Respiratory support
→ oxygen supplementation
→ mechanical ventilation
• Positioning
• Rest
• Suctioning of secretions
• Antipyretic and TSB
• Nutrition
XI. SCARLET FEVER

- Group A beta hemolytic streptococcus
- Respiratory
- Incubation 2-5 days
- Fever, red sandpaper rash, white strawberry tongue, flushed cheeks, red strawberry
tongue
- Diagnostics is throat culture
- Penicillin for 10 days
XII. BACILLARY DYSENTERY - SHIGELLOSIS

- Shiga bacillus: dysenteriae (fatal), flexneri (Philippines), boydii, sonnei; gram (-)
- Shiga toxin destroys intestinal mucosa
- Humans are the only hosts
- Not part of normal intestinal flora
- Incubation period: 1-7 days
- Mode of Transmission: oral fecal route

- Signs and Symptoms: fever, severe abdominal pain, diarrhea is watery to bloody with
pus, tenesmus
- Diagnosis: stool culture
- Management: Oresol, Ampicillin, Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole, Chloramphenicol,
Tetracycline, Ciprofloxacin
XIII. CHOLERA
- Vibrio coma (inaba, ogawa, hikojima), vibrio cholerae, vibrio el tor; gram (-)
- Choleragen toxin induces active secretion of NaCl
- Active Immunization
- Incubation Period: few hours to 5 days
- Mode of Transmission: oral fecal route
- Signs and Symptoms: Rice watery stool with flecks of mucus, s/sx of severe
dehydration ie Washerwoman’s skin, poor skin turgor
- Diagnosis: stool culture
- Management: IV fluids, Tetracycline, Doxycycline, Erythromycin, Quinolones,
Furazolidone and Sulfonamides (children)
XIV. HOOKWORM (ROUNDWORM)

- Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale
- Leads to iron deficiency and hypochromic microcytic anemia
- Gain entry via the skin
- Diagnosis: microscopic exam (stool exam)
- Management: Pyrantel Pamoate and Mebendazole
- Do not give drug without (+) stool exam
- members of the family must be examined and treated also
XV. PARAGONIMIASIS
- Chronic parasitic infection
- Closely resembles PTB
- Endemic areas: mindoro, camarines sur, norte, samar, sorsogon, leyte, albay, basilan
- Paragonimiasis
- AKA: Lung fluke disease
- causative agent: paragonimus westermani; Trematode
- Eating raw or partially cooked fish or freshwater crabs
- Signs and symptoms:
✓ Cough of long duration
✓ Hemoptysis
✓ Chest/back pain
✓ PTB not responding to anti-Koch’s meds
- Diagnosis: Sputum examination – eggs in brown spots
- Treatment:
1. Praziquantrel (biltrizide)
2. Bithionol
XVI. ASCARIASIS
• Common worldwide with greatest frequency in tropical countries.

• It has an infection rate of 70-90% in rural areas
• MOT: ingestion of embryonated eggs (fecal-oral)
• Worms reach maturity 2 months after ingestion of eggs.
• Adult worms live less than 10 months (18 months max.)
• Female can produce up to 200000 eggs per day
• Eggs may be viable in soils for months or years
• Worms can reach 10-30cm in length
• Initial symptom:
▪ loss of appetite
▪ Worms in the stool
▪ Fever
▪ Wheezing
▪ Vomiting
▪ Abdominal distention
▪ Diarhea
▪ dehydration
• Medical Management:
A. Mebendazole (antihelmintic) effect occurs by blocking the glucose uptake of the
organisms, reducing the energy until death
B. Pyrantel pamoate: neuromuscular blocking effect which paralyze the helminth,
allowing it to be expelled in the feces
C. Pierazine citrate: paralyze muscles of parasite, this dislodges the parasites
promoting their elimination
• Nursing Intervention:
- Environmental sanitation
- Health teachings
- Assessment of hydration status
- Use of ORS
- Proper waste disposal
- Enteric precautions
• Complications:
- Migration of the worm to different parts of the body (Ears, mouth, nose)
- Loeffler’s Pneumonia
- Energy protein malnutrition
- Intestinal obstruction
XVII. TAPEWORM (FLATWORMS)

• Taenia saginata (cattle), Taenia Solium (pigs)
• Mode of Transmission: fecal oral route
(ingestion of food contaminated by the agent)
• Signs and Symptoms: neurocysticercosis – seizures, hydrocephalus
• Diagnosis: Stool Exam
• Management: Praziquantel, Niclosamide
XVIII. PINWORM
• Enterobius vermicularis
• Mode of Transmission: fecal oral route

• Signs and Symptoms: Itchiness at the anal area d/t eggs of the agent
• Diagnosis: tape test at nighttime (agents release their eggs during nighttime)
• Management: Pyrantel Pamoate, Mebendazole
• Nursing Intervention
- Promote hygiene
- Environmental Sanitation
- Proper waste and sewage disposal
- Antihelmintic medications repeated after 2 weeks (entire family)
XIX. PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING

• A syndrome of characteristic symptoms predominantly neurologic which occurs within
minutes or several hours after ingestion of poisonous shellfish
• Single celled dinoflagellates (red planktons) become poisonous after heavy rain fall
preceded by prolonged summer
• Common in seas around manila bay, Samar, Bataan and Zambales
• Mode of Transmission: Ingestion of contaminated bi-valve shellfish
• Incubation Period: within 30 minutes
• Clinical Manifestations:
→ Numbness of the face especially around the mouth
→ Vomiting, dizziness, headache
→ Tingling sensation, weakness
→ Rapid pulse, difficulty of speech (ataxia), dysphagia, respiratory paralysis, death.
• Management and Control Measures:
- No definite medications
- Induce vomiting (early intervention)
- Drinking pure coconut milk (weakens toxic effect) do not give during late stage it
may worsen the condition.
- Nahco3 solution (25 grams in ½ glass of water)
- Respiratory support
- Avoid using vinegar in cooking shellfish affected by red tide (15x virulence)
- Toxin of red tide is not totally destroyed in cooking.
- Avoid tahong, talaba, halaan, kabiya, abaniko. When red tide is on the rise.
XX. BOTULISM
▪ A True poison known to be one of the deadliest substance and usually released into the
food shortly after it has been canned
▪ Clostridium Botulinum, gram (+), spore forming
▪ Ingestion of contaminated foods (canned foods), wound contamination, infant botulism
(most common; ingestion of honey)
▪ Neurotoxins block AcH
▪ Incubation period: 12-36H (canned food)
▪ Incubation period: 4-14 days (wound)
▪ Active and passive immunization
▪ Signs and symptoms: Diplopia, dysphagia, symmetric descending flaccid paralysis,
ptosis, depressed gag reflex, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, respiratory paralysis
▪ Diagnosis: gastric siphoning, wound culture, serum bioassay (food borne)
▪ Management: respiratory support, antitoxin

XXI. LEPROSY
▪ Chronic infectious and communicable disease
▪ No new case arises without previous contact
▪ Majority are contracted in childhood; manifestation arises by 15 years old and will
definitely diagnose at 20
▪ it is no hereditary
▪ Does not cross placenta
▪ Cardinal Sign
o Presence of Hansen’s bacilli in stained smear or dried biopsy material.
o Presence of localized areas of anesthesia
* Lepromatous or malignant
• many microorganisms
• open or infectious cases
• negative lepromin test
* Tuberculoid or benign
• few organism
• noninfectious
• positive reaction to lepromin test
▪ Signs and symptoms:
• Early/Indeterminate – hypopigmented / hyperpigmented anesthetic macules/plaques
• Tuberculoid – solitary hypopigmented hypesthetic macule, neurotic pain, contractures of
hand and foot, ulcers, eye involvement i.e. keratitis
• Lepromatous – multiple lesions, Loss of lateral portion of eyebrows (madarosis),
corrugated skin (leonine facies), septal collapse (saddle nose)
▪ Diagnosis
- Skin smear test
- Skin lesion biopsy
- Lepromin test -
▪ Management
o MDT-RA 4073 (home meds)
o Paucibacillary - 6-9 months
1. Dapsone
2. Rifampicin
o Multibacillary- 12-24 months
i. Dapsone – mainstay; hemolysis, agranulocytosis
ii. Clofazimine – reddish skin pigmentation, intestinal toxicity
iii. Rifampicin – bactericidal; renal and liver toxicity
▪ Nursing Intervention
- Health teachings
- Counseling involving the family members and even the community
- Prevention of transmission (use of mask)
XXII. AVIAN INFLUENZA

o Serious consequences for ASIA
o It is an infectious disease of birds caused by Type A strains of the influenza virus
o First identified in Italy more than 100 years ago
o Occurs worldwide

o Infection causes a wide spectrum of symptoms in birds, ranging from mild illness to a highly
contagious and rapidly fatal disease resulting in severe epidemics
o “highly pathogenic avian influenza”
➢ Pathogenesis
- Avian influenza does not normally infect species other than birds and pigs
- First documented infection of humans with avian flu occurred in Hong Kong in 1997
- Affected 18 humans, 6 died
XXIII. BIRD FLU

▪ Human cases of influenza A (H5N1) infection have been reported in Cambodia, China,
Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
▪ Clinical manifestations
o Patients develop fever, sore throat, cough, in fatal cases, severe respiratory
distress may result secondary to pneumonia
▪ A constantly mutating virus
▪ All type A influenza virus, including those that regularly cause seasonal epidemics of
influenza in humans are genetically labile and well adapted to elude host defenses
▪ So far bird flu is mainly transmitted between birds, but experts fear the H5N1 virus could
be devastating to humans if it genetically mutates and develops the capacity to be
transmitted from human to human.
XXIV. DEADLY AVIAN FLU

▪ The WHO has warned that if this happens it could trigger a new human flu pandemic,
potentially killing up to 50 million people worldwide
▪ A total of 55 people has died from the H5N1 virus since the beginning of the epidemic in
2003
▪ Trivalent Inactivated Vaccine (TIV)
o Most widely used influenza vaccine
o Administered IM
o Indicated for all persons older than 6 months of age
o Studies in children have shown efficacy from 30-90%
 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

➢ GONORRHEA, MORNING DROP, CLAP, JACK
o Neisseria gonorrheae, gram (+)
o Incubation Period: 3-7 days
o Signs and Symptoms:
→ Females: usually asymptomatic or minimal urethral discharge w/ lower
abdominal pain, sterility, or ectopic pregnancy
→ Male: Mucopurulent discharge, painful urination, decreased sperm count
o Diagnosis: gram stain and culture of cervical secretions on Thayer Martin VCN
medium
o Management:
→ single dose only
→ Ceftriaxone (Rocephin) 125 mg IM
→ Ofloxacin (Floxin) 400 mg orally

→ treat concurrently with Doxycycline or Azithromycin for 50% infected w/
Clamydia
o Complications:
→ PID, ectopic pregnancy and infertility, peritonitis, perihepatitis, Ophthalmia
neonatorum, sepsis and arthritis
➢ SYPHILIS
o Treponema pallidum, spirochete
o “Beautiful” fast moving but delicate spiral thread
o Incubation Period: 10-90 days
o Primary (3-6 wks after contact) – nontender lymphadenopathy and chancre; most
infectious; resolves 4-6 wks
▪ Chancre – painless ulcer with heaped up firm edges appears at the site
where the treponema enters. Related to pattern of sexual behavior
(genitalia, rectal, oral, lips)
▪ BUBO – swelling of the regional lymphnode
o Secondary – systemic; generalized macular papular rash including palms and soles
and painless wartlike lesions in vulva or scrotum (condylomata lata) and
lymphadenopathy
o Tertiary – (6-40 years) - neurosyphilis/permanent damage (insanity); gumma
(necrotic granulomatous lesions), aortic aneurysm
o Diagnosis: Dark-field examination of lesion- 1st and 2nd stage

▪ Non-specific VDRL and RPR
▪ FTA-ABS
o Management:
▪ Primary and secondary - Pen G
▪ Tertiary - IV Pen G
➢ CHLAMYDIA
o Chlamydia trachomatis, gram (-)
o Incubation period: 2-10 days
o Signs and symptoms:
• Maybe asymptomatic
• Gray white discharge, Burning and itchiness at the urethral opening
o Diagnosis:
• Gram stain
• Antigen detection test on cervical smear
• Urinalysis
o Management:
• Doxycycline or Azithromycin
• Erythromycin and Ofloxacin
o Complications:
• PID
• Ectopic pregnancy
• Fetus transmittal (vaginal birth)

➢ HERPES GENITALIS
o HSV 2
o Signs and Symptoms: Painful sexual intercourse, Painful vesicles (cervix, vagina,
perineum, glans penis)
o Diagnosis:
▪ Viral culture
▪ Pap smear (shows cellular changes)
▪ Tzanck smear (scraping of ulcer for staining)
o Management: Anti-viral - acyclovir (zovirax)
o Complications:
▪ Meningitis
▪ Neonatal infection (vaginal birth)
➢ GENITAL WARTS
o Condyloma Acuminatum
o HPV type 6 & 11, papilloma virus
o Signs and symptoms: Single or multiple soft, fleshy painless growth of the vulva,
vagina, cervix, urethra, or anal area, Vaginal bleeding, discharge, odor and
dyspareunia
o Diagnosis:
▪ Pap smear-shows cellular changes (koilocytosis)
▪ Acetic acid swabbing (will whiten lesion)
▪ Cauliflower or hyperkeratotic papular lesions
o Treatment:
▪ liquid nitrogen
▪ podophylin resin
o Management: Laser treatment is more effective
o Complications:
▪ Neoplasia
▪ Neonatal laryngeal papillomatosis (vaginal birth)
➢ CANDIDIASIS, MONILIASIS
o Candida Albicans, Yeast, or fungus
o Signs and symptoms: Cheesy white discharge, extreme itchiness
o Diagnosis: KOH (wet smear indicate positive result)
o Management: Imidazole, Monistat, Diflucan
o Complications: Oral thrush to baby (vaginal birth)
➢ TRICHOMONIASIS
o Trichomona vaginalis, parasite
o Signs and symptoms:
▪ Females: itching, burning on urination, Yellow gray frothy malodorous vaginal
discharge, Foul smelling
▪ Males: usually asymptomatic
o Diagnosis: microscopic exam of vaginal discharge
o Management: Metronidazole (Flagyl); include partners
o Complications: PROM

➢ HIV and AIDS
• Retrovirus (HIV1 & HIV2)
• Attacks and kills CD4+ lymphocytes (T-helper)
• Capable of replicating in the lymphocytes undetected by the immune system
• Immunity declines and opportunistic microbes set in
• No known cure
• HIV/AIDS Reverses Development and Poses Serious Threat to Future Generations
• Since 1980s, 60M have been infected and 25M have died
• Mode of Transmission:
▪ Sexual intercourse (oral, vaginal, and anal)
▪ Exposure to contaminated blood, semen, breast milk and other body fluids
▪ Blood Transfusion
▪ IV drug use
▪ Transplacental
▪ Needlestick injuries
• High Risk Group
▪ Homosexual or bisexual
▪ Intravenous drug users
▪ BT recipients before 1985
▪ Sexual contact with HIV+
▪ Babies of mothers who are HIV+
• Signs and Symptoms:
1. Acute viral illness (1 mo after initial exposure) – fever, malaise,
lymphadenopathy
2. Clinical latency – 8 yrs w/ no sx; towards end, bacterial and skin infections and
constitutonal sx – AIDS related complex; CD4 counts 400-200
3. AIDS – 2 yrs; CD4 T lymphocyte < 200 w/ (+) ELISA or Western Blot and
opportunistic infections
• HIV CLASSIFICATION
▪ CATEGORY 1 – CD4+ 500 OR MORE
▪ CATEGORY 2 – CD4+ 200-499
▪ CATEGORY 3 – CD4+ LESS THAN 200
• HIV TEST
▪ Elisa
▪ Western Blot
▪ Rapid HIV test
• CD4 T cells count
▪ HIV+ – CD4+ count below 500/ml
▪ Full blown AIDS – CD4 is less than 200/ml
• Exhibits one or more of the ff:
o Extreme fatigue
o Intermittent fever
o Night sweats
o Chills
o Lymphadenopathy
o Enlarged spleen
o Anorexia
o Weight loss

o Severe diarrhea
o Apathy and depression
o PTB
o Kaposis sarcoma
o Pneumocystis carinii
o AIDS dementia
• Treatment
▪ Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) – ziduvirine (AZT)
a. Prolong life
b. Reduce risk of opportunistic infection
c. Prolong incubation period
• PREVENTION
✓ A – ABSTINENCE
✓ B – BE FAITHFUL
✓ C – CONDOMS
✓ D – DON’T USE DRUGS
CHAPTER 13: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

❖ Environment Health (WHO)
o Comprises of those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are
determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychological factors in the
environment.
❖ PD 856- code of sanitation
❖ 8 environmental health indicators:

1. Households with access to improved or safe water-stratified to Levels I, II, and III.
2. Household with sanitary toilets.
3. Household with satisfactory disposal of solid waste.
4. household with complete basic sanitation facilities.
5. Food Establishments
6. Food establishments with sanitary permits
7. Food handlers
8. Food handlers with health certificates
❖ 3 LEVELS OF SAFE WATER SOURCES

I. Level I (Point source)
▪ refers to a protected well (shallow or deep well), improved dug well, developed
spring, or rainwater cistern with an outlet but without a distribution system.
▪ A level I facility is generally adaptable for rural areas where the houses are
thinly scattered.
▪ Normally serve 15-25 households and its outreach must not be more than 250
meters from the farthest user.
▪ The yield or discharge is generally from 40-140 liters/minute.
II. Level II (Communal Faucet System or Stand Post)

▪ refers to a system composes of a source, a reservoir, a piped distribution
network, and a communal faucet located not more than 25 meters from the
farthest house.
▪ It is generally suitable for rural and urban areas.
▪ The typical level II system is designed to deliver 40-80 liters per capita per day
to an average of 100 households, with one faucet per 4-6 households.
III. Level III (Waterworks System)
▪ refers to a system with a source, transmission pipes, a reservoir, and a piped
distribution network for household taps.
▪ It is generally suited for densely populated areas.
▪ This level of facility requires minimum treatment of disinfection.
▪ Examples of this include water districts with individual household connections.
❖ R.A. 9003 – Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000
➢ Solid Waste may be classified as follows:
i. Municipal Waste
▪ all discarded nonhazardous household commercial and Institutional
waste, street sweepings, and construction debris.
ii. Health Care Waste
▪ Refers to the refuse that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment or
immunization of human beings or animals together with those related to
the production or research of the same.
iii. Industrial Waste
▪ Refers to the refuse that arise from production and from agricultural, and
mining industries.
iv. Hazardous Waste
▪ Substances that pose either an immediate or long-term substantial
danger to human.
❖ Hospital Waste Bins Coding:
o Black/Colorless
▪ Nonhazardous and non-biodegradable waste.
o Green
▪ Nonhazardous biodegradable wastes
o Yellow with Biohazard Symbol
▪ Pathological/anatomical waste
o Yellow with Black Band
▪ Pharmaceutical/cytotoxic or chemical waste.
o Yellow Bag that can be Autoclaved
▪ Infectious wastes
o Orange with Radioactive Symbol
▪ radioactive wastes
❖ Water Sanitation
o The general requirements of safe drinking water:
1. Microbial quality
- tested trough the parameters of total coliform, fecal coliform, and
heterotrophic plate count.
2. Chemical and physical quality
- tested trough the parameters of pH, chemical specific levels, color, odor,
turbidity, hardness, and total dissolved solids.

3. Radiological quality
- tested through the parameters of gross alpha activity, gross beta, and
radon.
-
❖ Food Safety (NEHAP) – defined food safety as the assurance that food will not cause any
harm to the consumer when it is prepared and eaten according to its intended use.
❖ R. A. 9711 – Food and Drug Administration Act
❖ Sanitation Facilities:
1. Box and Can Privy (Bucket Latrine)
▪ Fecal matter is collected in a can or bucket, which is periodically removed for
emptying and cleaning.
2. Pit Latrine (Pit Privy)
▪ Fecal matter is eliminated into a hole in the ground that leads to a dug pit.
Generally, a latrine refers to toilet facilities without a bowl. It can be equipped
with either a squatting plate or a riser with a seat.
3. Antipolo Toilet
▪ It is made up of an elevated pit privy that has a covered latrine.
4. Septic Privy
▪ Fecal matter is collected in a build septic tank that is not connected to a
sewerage system.
5. Aqua Privy
▪ fecal matter is eliminated into a water-sealed drop pipe that leads from the
latrine to a small water filled septic tank located directly below the squatting
plate.
6. Overhung Latrine
▪ fecal matter is directly eliminated into a body of water such as a flowing river
that is underneath the facility.
7. Ventilated-Improved Pit (VIP) Latrine
▪ A pit latrine with a screened air vent installed directly over the pit.
8. Concrete Vault Privy
▪ fecal matter is collected in a pit privy lined with a concrete in such a manner so
as to make it water tight.
9. Chemical Privy
▪ Fecal matter is collected into a tank that contains a caustic chemical solution,
which in turn controls and facilitates the waste decomposition.
10. Compost Privy
▪ fecal matter is collected into a pit with urine ad anal cleansing materials with
the addition of organic garbage such as leaves and grass to allow biological
decomposition and production of agricultural or fishpond compost.
11. Pour Flush Latrine
▪ it has a bowl with a water seal trap like the conventional tank flush toilet expect
that it requires only a small volume of water for flushing.
12. Tank-Flush Toilet
▪ feces are excreted into a bowl with a water sealed trap. The water tank that
receives a limited amount of water empties into the bowl for flushing of fecal
materials through the water sealed trap and into the sewerage system.

CHAPTER 14: DISASTER MANAGEMENT
❖ Emergency – any event endangering the life or health of a significant number of people and
demanding immediate action.
• May result from a natural, man-made, technological, or societal hazard (DOH,2012).
• The agency, community family, or individual can manage using his/her own resources.
❖ Disaster – any event that causes a level of destruction, death, or injury that affects the
abilities of the community to respond to the incident using available resources.
o Depending on the characteristics of the disaster, may be beyond the ability of the
community to respond and recover from the incident using their own resources.
o Terminology:
• Mass Casualty – 100 or more individuals are involved
• Multiple Casualty – more than 2 but fewer than 100 individuals are involved
• Casualties can be classified as direct/ indirect victim, displaced person, or a
refugee.
▪ Direct Victim – individual who is immediately affected by the event
▪ Indirect Victim – family member or friend of the victim or a first
responder
▪ Displaced Persons – those who must evacuate their home, school, or
business because of a disaster
▪ Refugees – group of people who have fled their home or even their
country because of famine, drought, natural disaster, war, or civil unrest.
❖ Types of Disasters:
1. Natural Hazard
- physical force, such as typhoon, flood, landslide, earthquake, and volcanic
activity
2. Biological Hazard
- process or phenomenon of organic origin or conveyed by biological vectors,
including exposure to pathogenic microorganisms, toxins, and bioactive
substances (ex: disease outbreaks, red tide poisoning)
3. Technological Hazard
- arises from technological or industrial conditions, including accidents,
dangerous procedures, and infrastructure failures.
4. Societal Hazard
- results from the interaction of varying political, social, or economic factors,
which may have a negative impact on the community (ex: stampedes, armed
conflicts, terrorist activity, riots).
5. NA-TECH (natural-technological disaster)
- natural disaster that creates or results in a widespread technological problem
(ex: earthquake that causes structural collapse of roadways or bridges that, in
turn, brought down electrical wires and caused subsequent fires; chemical spill
resulting from a flood)
❖ Terrorism
o “criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or
serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of

terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a
population or compel a govt. or an international org. to do or to abstain from doing any
act” (UN Security Council, 2004).
❖ Weapons of Mass Destruction

o any weapon that’s designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through
the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or its
precursors.
❖ Characteristics of Disasters:
• Frequency – how often a disaster occurs
• Predictability – the ability to tell when and if a disaster event will occur
• Preventability – a characteristic indicating that actions can be taken to avoid a disaster
• Imminence – speed of onset of an impending disaster
• Scope and number of casualties – the range of its effect
• Intensity – describes the level of destruction and devastation
❖ Disaster Management Stages:

1. Preventions Stage – occurs before a disaster is imminent and is known as the “non-
disaster stage.”
2. Preparedness and Planning Stage – includes training in first aid, assembling a disaster
emergency kit, establishing a predetermined meeting place away from home, and
making a family communication plan
3. Response Stage – begins immediately after the disaster incident occurs
a. Includes evacuation, search and rescue, and staging area (the on-site incident
command station), and triage area.
b. Disaster Triage – focus is to do as little as possible, for the greatest number, in
the shortest period of time (START triage/ simple triage and rapid treatment)
4. Recovery Stage – begins when the danger from the disaster has passed and
concerned local and national agencies are present in the area to help victims rebuild
their lives and the community
❖ First Responders – responsible for incident management at the local level (ex: police, fire,
public health, public works, and medical emergency services)
❖ Public Health System

o broad term used to describe all of the governmental and non-governmental
organizations and agencies that contribute to the improvement of the health of
populations.
❖ The Philippine Red Cross

o Officially founded in 1947. PRC carried out 2 main functions: blood provision and
disaster-related services.
o Present-day, offers 6 major services:
1. National Blood Services
2. Safety Services – training in first aid, basic life support, water safety, accident
prevention

3. Social Services – guidance and counseling, psychological support, tracing
service, referral service, early livelihood recovery program, hot meals
4. Volunteer Services
5. Community health and nursing services – Basic Health Education Program,
Primary Health Care
6. Disaster Management Services – relief operations, deployment of disaster
response teams, organization of brgy. disaster action team, preposition of
relief supplies
❖ R.A. 10121 – Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act; specified the policy of
developing and implementing a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan
(NDRRMP)
o NDRRMP has 4 priority areas:
1. Disaster prevention and mitigation by reducing vulnerabilities and exposure and
enhancing capabilities of communities
2. Disaster preparedness
3. Disaster response
4. Rehabilitation and recovery
❖ Incident Command System (ICS) – standardized, on-scene, all-hazard incident management

concept
o The Command Staff, composed of people who report directly to the Incident
Commander, usually includes:
▪ Public Information Officer
• provides the public, media, and/or other agencies with required
information related to the incident
▪ Safety Officer
• monitors operations related to the incident and advises the Incident
Command on matters of operational safety, including the health and
safety of responding personnel; has the authority to stop any unsafe act.
▪ Liaison Officer
• takes charge of coordinating with representatives from cooperating and
assisting agencies or organizations.
▪ General Staff
• responsible for the functional aspects of the incident command structure
❖ Community Responses to a Disaster:

1. Heroic Phase – nearly everyone feels the need to rush to help people survive
a. Medical personnel may work hours without sleep, under dangerous and life-
threatening conditions; may help in areas in which they’re not familiar and have
no experience
2. Honeymoon Phase – survivors gather and begin to tell their stories and review
repeatedly what has occurred
a. Bonds are formed among victims and health care workers
b. Gratitude is expressed for being alive
3. Disillusionment Phase – feelings of despair arise
a. Medical personnel may begin to experience depression due to exhaustion

b. People realize the way things were before is not the way things are now and
may never be the same again
4. Reconstruction Phase – some sense of normalcy in returning
a. Restored some of the buildings, business, homes and services
b. Counseling support for victims
c. People begin to look to the future
❖ Common Individual Reactions to a Disaster

▪ Emotional, cognitive, physical, and interpersonal reactions to a disaster usually
resolve in 1-3 months after the disaster
▪ Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – can occur following an individual’s
experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event; often relive the experience
through nightmares and flashbacks

CHAPTER 15: E-HEALTH IN THE COMMUNITY
❖ Information and communication technologies (ICTs) – diverse set of technological tools and
resources used to communicate and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information.
❖ eHealth – Use of ICT for health.

o May 25, 2005 the 58th World Health Assembly
▪ adopted by the WHO recognizing eHealth as the cost -effective way using ICT in
the health care service, health surveillance, health literature, health education
and research.
❖ Extensive Capabilities of eHealth

o Communicating with a patient through a teleconference, electronic mail (email), short
message service.
o Providing patient teaching with aid of electronic tools such as radio, television,
computers, smartphones, and tablets
o Recording, retrieving, and mining data in an electronic medical record.
❖ According to the WHO, ehealth encompasses three main areas.

1. The delivery of the health information, for health professionals and health consumers,
through the internet and communications.
2. Using the power of information technology and e-commerce to improve public health
services.
→ Ex. Through education and training of health workers.
3. The use of e-commerce and e-business practice in health systems management.
❖ Health care system builds heavily on accurate recording of obtained data.
❖ Paper based methods may bring inconvenience when it comes on interoperability of health
services, information backup and instant data access. Problems may also emerge.
1. Continuity and interoperability of care stops in the unlikely event that a record gets
misplaced.
2. Illegible handwriting poses misinterpretation of data.
3. Patient privacy is compromised.
4. Data are difficult to aggregate.
5. Actual time for patient care gets limited.
❖ Internal and external changes affecting health care informatics

1. The ability to manipulate large amounts of data.
2. The ability to relate data to cohorts of people who shares similar health problems
3. The ability to link to genomic data.
❖ Information system benefits

1. Data are readily mapped, enabling more targeted interventions and feedback.
2. Data can be easily retrieved and recovered.

3. Redundancy of data is minimized
4. Data for clinical research becomes more available.
5. Resources are used efficiently
❖ Data must have the following characteristics

1. Accuracy. Ensures that documentation reflects the event as it happened.
2. Accessibility. Data availability should the patient or any member of the health care
staff needs.
3. Comprehensiveness. Data inputted should be complete.
4. Consistency / Reliability. Having no discrepancies in data recorded makes it consistent.
5. Currency. All data must be up-to-date and timely.
6. Definition. Data should be properly labeled and clearly defined.
❖ DOH introduced several health information systems that aim to improve the access of health
data.
1. Electronic Field Health Service Information System
2. Online National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
3. Philippine Health Atlas
4. Unified Health Management Information System
❖ Factor affecting eHelth in the country

1. Limited health budget
2. The emergence of free and open source software
3. Decentralized government
4. Target users are unfamiliar with the technology
5. Surplus of “digital native” registered nurses. Digital native describes a person who
grew up and is familiar with digital technologies and who uses them in daily living.
❖ DOH Administrative Order No. 2010-0036, outlined the policy directions of universal health
care. Known as Kalusugan Pangkaahatan this reform agenda has three priority health
directions:
1. Financial risk protection through program enrolment and benefit delivery.
2. Improved access to quality hospitals and health care facilities.
3. Attainment of the health- related Millennium Development Goals
❖ Electronic medical records - is basically comprehensive patient records that are stored and
accessed from a computer or server.
❖ Telemedicine
o WHO:“the delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor, by all
health care professionals using information and communications technologies for the
exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and
injuries, research and evaluation and for the continuing education of the health care
providers, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their
communities”
o Four elements for telemedicine
1. Its purpose is to provide clinical support.

2. It is intended to overcome geographical barriers, connecting users who are
not in the same physical location.
3. It involves the use of various types of ICT.
4. Its goal is to improve health outcomes.
❖ eLearning is basically the use of electronic tools to aid in teaching. Can also be used to
educate fellow health professionals.
❖ Roles of community health nurses in eHealth

1. Data and records manager
→ Maintain the quality of data inputs in the EMRS, making sure that information is
accurate, complete, consistent, correct and current.
2. Change agent
→ Working closely with community and implementing eHealth with them and not
for them.
3. Educator
→ Nurses provide health education to individual and families through ICT tools.
4. Telepresenter
→ Needs may need to present the patient’s case to a remote medical specialist.
5. Client Advocate
→ Nurse must safeguard patient records, ensuring that security, confidentiality,
and privacy of all patient information are being upheld.
6. Researcher
→ Responsible for identifying possible points for research and developing a
framework, based on data aggregated by the system.

CHAPTER 16: SCHOOL HEALTH NURSING
The use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, poor nutritional habits, inadequate physical activity,
irresponsible sexual behaviour, violence, suicide and reckless driving are examples of behaviour
that often begin during youth and increase the risk of serious health problems.
➢ The school nurse visits four to six schools per month, with each visit lasting for 3 days or
more, depending on the type of school and school location and population.
➢ Revisits may be done within the month in a particular school.
➢ Teachers who also serve as school guardians, provide primary care as necessary. Such as
detection of obvious health problems and administration of first aid.
➢ The school nurse is responsible for planning and conducting training programs for teachers
on health and nutrition.
➢ Poverty is associated with decreased or inferior health care and has been linked to serious
health problems that result in absenteeism and failure in school.
➢ The school nurse and in the absence of the school nurse, the well-prepared school teacher,
serving as school health guardian, can effectively manage minor complaints of illnesses,
helping these children to return to or remain in class.
➢ There is a need for mental and physical health services for student of all ages in an effort to
improve both academic performance and the sense of well-being.
➢ School health program were defined as :
1. School health services
2. School health education
3. A healthy school environment to include both physical and psychosocial aspects of
environment( WHO, 1997)
➢ RA 124 in 1947- an act to provide for Medical Inspection of Children Enrolled in Private
Schools, Colleges and Universities in the Philippines. This law stated that it was the duty
of the school heads of private schools with a total enrolment of 300 or more to provide
for a part-or full time physician for the annual medical examination of pupils and
students.
➢ The physicians were to render of their school health activities at the end of every
quarter of each school year to the Director of Health.
❖ SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES:

o Health Education- these are culture sensitive and based on the identified educational
needs of the target population.
o Areas of concern for health education:

1. Oral Hygiene
o the oral health care program involves the 7 o‘clock toothbrushing habit
activity.
2. Injury prevention and developing safety conscious behaviour in the use of the
school playground, while engaging in sports, and the like. MAPEH period is a
good time for the school nurse or teacher to talk with and counsel students
about risk of developing health problems related too physical acivity.
3. Tobacco Use
o Smoking is a major problem in this country.

o Prevention should be emphasized in young people.
4. Substance Abuse
o The use of alcohol and other drugs is associated with problems in
schools, injuries, violence, and motor vehicle deaths.
o National Drug Education Program- designed to promote collaboration of
other sectors with the school system by establishing linkages among
government, private and sociocivic organizations.
o Random drug testing is also carried as part of this program.
5. HIV and AIDS
o School-base HIV and AIDS Education and prevention program is an
information dissemination campaign to educate the general
population on the risks of HIV and AIDS.
❖ 8 Components of School Health Programs
I. Physical Education
▪ Sedentary lifestyle is associated with obesity, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes
▪ Regular physical activity helps build and maintain healthy bones and muscles.
II. Health Services

▪ Health Screening – one of the objectives of the school health nursing program in the
Philippines is to detect early signs and symptoms of illness, disabilities, and deviations
from normal.
i. Annual Individual Health Assessment — examination of the eyes, ears, nose,
throat, neck, mouth, skin, extremities, posture, nutritional status, heart and
lungs.
→ Visual acuity test is done with the use of Snellen’s chart, E-chart or
symbol chart.
→ Ballpen Click Test (Auditory Screening) - test for hearing acuity.
ii. Height and weight measurement- done at the beginning and at the end of the
school year.
iii. Rapid Classroom Inspection- inspection of the pupils in the classroom or while
they are in line formation outside the classroom.

iv. Emergency Care – emergencies can include natural events such as typhoons,
floods, and earthquake and man-made disasters, such as hazardous material
spills, fires, and civil disobedience.
→ Basic first aid equipment should be available in all schools.
→ The school nurse and school health guardians must be knowledgeable
about standard first aid.
→ EMS activation and Referral system should be in place.
III. Nutrition Services

▪ A variety of foods must be ingested to meet their daily requirement.
▪ Diets should include a proper balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats with
sufficient intake of vitamins and minerals. S
▪ Skipping meals, especially breakfast and eating unhealthy snacks contribute to poor
childhood nutrition.
▪ Food preparation is expected to be undertaken by the home economics, feeding
teachers, homeroom Parent-Teachers Association on a rotation basis or both.
▪ Obesity
- Not considered as an eating disorder
- Must be of concern to the school nurse
 3 Most Common Eating Disorder:
i. Anorexia
▪ Severely restricted intake of food based on an extreme fear
of weight gain.
ii. Bulimia
▪ Chaotic eating pattern with recurrent episodes of binge
eating.
iii. Binge Eating
▪ Out-of-control eating of large amounts of food whether
hungry or not.
IV. Counseling, Psychological, and Social Services

▪ Children and teens struggle with depression, substance abuse, conduct disorders,
self-esteem, suicide ideation, eating disorders and under or overachievement.\
▪ One of the most important roles of the nurse with various vague complaints, such as
recurrent stomachaches, headaches, or sexually promiscuous behavior.
▪ Early detection and treatment may prevent untoward consequences.
▪ It is important for the nurse to be cognizant of the warning signs associated with
suicide and to recognize and refer at-risk adolescents to appropriate mental health
professionals.
V. Healthy School Environment

▪ The healthy school environment should consist of (WHO, 1997)
1. A Physical, psychological, and social environment
2. A healthy organizational culture within the school
3. Productive interaction between the school and community.

VI. Health Promotion for School Staff
▪ Staff that participate in health promotion increase their health knowledge and
positively change their attitudes and behaviors relative to smoking practices, nutrition,
physical activity, stress, and emotional health.
❖ Truths About Adolescent Suicide

1. Most adolescent who attempt suicide are torn between wanting to die and wanting to live
2. Any threat of suicide should be taken seriously
3. There are usually warning signs preceding an attempt(depression, isolation, sleep
changes)
4. Suicide is more common in adolescents than Homicide
5. Education concerning suicide
does not lead to an increased number of attempts.
6. Females are more likely to attempt suicide. Males are more likely to suicide
7. One attempt can result in a subsequent attempt
8. Firearms and strangulation are predominant modalities of completed suicides in children
and adolescents.
9. Most adolescents who attempted suicide have not been diagnoses as having mental
disorder.
10. All socioeconomic groups are affected by suicide.
❖ Warning Signs of Stress

▪ Difficulty eating or sleeping
▪ Use of alcohol or other substances (sedatives, sleep enhancer)
▪ Difficulty in making decisions
▪ Persistent angry or hostile feelings
▪ Inability to concentrate
▪ Increased boredom
▪ Frequent headaches and ailments
▪ Inconsistent school attendance
❖ STANDARDS OF SCHOOL NURSING PRACTICE

STANDARDS OF PRACTICE
Standard 1: Assessment Nurse collects comprehensive data
pertinent to the client’s health or the
situation
Standard 2: Diagnosis Nurse analyzes the assessment data to
determine the diagnoses or issues
Standard 3: Outcomes Identification Nurse identifies expected outcome for
a plan individualized to the client or the
situation
Standard 4: Planning School nurse develops a plan that
prescribes strategies and alternatives
to attain expected outcome.
Standard 5A: Coordination of Care Nurse provides health education and

employs strategies to promote health
and a safe environment.
Standard 5B: Health Teaching and Nurse provides health education and
Health Promotion employs strategies to promote health
and a safe environment.
Standard 6. Evaluation School nurse evaluates the clients
progress towards attainment of
outcomes.
STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE
Standard 7. Quality of Practice School nurse systematically enhances
the quality and effectiveness of nursing
practice
Standard 8. Education School nurse attains knowledge and
competency that reflects current
school nursing practice.
Standard 9. Profession Practice Nurse evaluates one’s own nursing
Evaluation practice
Standard 10. Collegiality Nurse interacts with to the professional
development of peers and school
personnel as colleagues.
Standard 11. Collaboration School collaborates with the client,
family, school, staff
Standard 12. Ethics School nurse integrates ethical
provision in all areas of practice.
Standard 13. Research School nurse integrates research
findings into practice.
Standard 14. Resource Utilization School nurse considers factors related
to safety, effectiveness, cost, and
impact.
Standard 15. Leadership School nurse provides leadership in the
professional practice setting and the
profession
Standard 16. Program Management Manages school health services.
❖ School Nursing Practice

o A specialty unto itself.
o School nurses need education in specific areas, such as:
▪ Growth and development
▪ Public health
▪ Mental health nursing
▪ Case management
▪ Family theory
▪ Leadership
▪ Cultural sensitivity to effectively perform their roles.

CHAPTER 17: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING
❖ Occupational Health Nursing is defined as:
o a specialty practice that focuses on the promotion, prevention, and restoration of
health within the context of a safe and healthy environment. It includes the prevention
of adverse health effects from occupational and environmental hazards.
❖ Department of Labor and Employment – the lead agency on Occupational Safety and Health
❖ They are given RULE MAKING and RULE ENFORCEMENT powers to implement stipulations of
the Philippine Constitution and the Philippine Labor Code.
❖ The National Profile on Occupational Safety and Health (of the Department of Labor and
Employment – Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC) – defined OSH as a discipline
involved in “the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and
social well-being of workers in all occupations.”
❖ EVOLUTION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING IN THE PHILIPPINES

• MS. MAGDALENA VALENZUELA – she instituted the INDUSTRIAL NURSING UNIT of the
Philippine Nurses Association on November 11, 1950.
• MS. PERLA GORRES – from the Philippine Manufacturing Company (PMC) served as
the first chairperson of the said unit.
• MS. ANITA SANTOS – was elected as first president on August 19, 1964. She paved way
to the modification in the name of the organization to Occupational Health Nurses
Association of the Philippines, Inc. on November 12, 1966.
• June 5 – 6, 1970 – first annual convention was held.

• September 25, 1979 – the organization was registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
❖ ASSESSMENT AND CONTROL OF HAZARDS IN THE WORKPLACE

• HEALTH HAZARDS – are the elements in the work environment that can cause work-
related disease.
• SAFETY HAZARDS – are the unsafe conditions or unsafe acts that significantly increase
the risk of a worker to be injured.
➢ TYPES OF HAZARDS:
1. Biological-infectious hazards – infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, fungi.
2. Chemical hazards – various forms of chemical agents.
3. Enviromechanical hazards – factors that cause accident, injuries, strains or
discomfort (eg. Poor equipments)
4. Physical hazards – radiation, electricity, temperature, and noise
5. Psychosocial hazards – anything that causes emotional stress and strain or
interpersonal problem.

➢ CONTROL MEASURES FOR OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS:
1. Administrative Control – refers to the development and implementation of
policies, standards, trainings, job design and the like.
2. Engineering – refers to the adoption of physical, chemical or technological
improvements to limit exposure to hazards.
3. Materials Provision – refers to providing the workers with supplies or
supplements that can decrease their exposure to hazards.
❖ DUTIES OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSE (as stated in Rule 1965.04 of the amended OSHS
by DOLE)
o “The duties and functions of the Occupational Health Nurse are:
i. In the absence of a physician, to organize and administer a health service
program integrating occupational safety, otherwise, these activities of the nurse
shall be in accordance with the physician;
ii. Provide nursing care to injured or ill workers;
iii. Participate in health maintenance examination. If a physician is not available, to
perform work activities which are within the scope allowed by the nursing
profession, and if more extensive examinations are needed, to refer the same to
a physician;
iv. Participate in the maintenance of occupational health and safety by giving
suggestions in the improvement of working environment affecting the health
and well-being of the workers; and
v. Maintain a reporting and records system, and, if a physician is not available,
prepare and submit an annual medical report, using form DOLE/BWC/HSD/OH-
47, to the employer, as required by this Standards.
❖ CODE OF ETHICS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSES:

1. The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) articulates
occupational and environmental health nursing values, maintains the integrity of our
specialty practice area and the nursing profession, and integrates principles of social
justice into nursing and health policy
2. The occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN) practices with compassion
and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and unique attributes of every person.
3. The occupational and environmental health nurse's (OHN) primary commitment is to
the client, whether an individual, group, community, or population.
4. The occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN) promotes, advocates for, and
protects the rights, health, and safety of the client.
5. The occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN) has authority, accountability,
and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent
with the obligation to prevent illness and injury, promote health, and provide optimal
health care.
6. The occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN) owes the same duties to self
as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve
wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and
professional growth.
7. The occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN), through individual and
collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the

work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality health
care.
8. Occupational and environmental health nurses (OHN) help advance the nursing
profession and our specialty practice through research and scholarly inquiry,
professional standards development, and the generation of nursing and health policy.
9. The occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN) collaborates with other health
professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health, and reduce
health disparities.
❖ COMPETENCY CATEGORY IN OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH NURSING by

AAOHN
1. Clinical and primary care
2. Case management
3. Workforce, workplace, and environmental issues
4. Regulatory and legislative
5. Management
6. Health promotion and disease prevention
7. Occupational and environmental health and safety education and training
8. Research
9. Professionalism
❖ IMPACT OF LEGISLATION ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH:

The DOLE possesses legislative and rule-making powers with regards to the following
laws and standards:
1. Presidential Decree 442 Philippine Labor Code on prevention and compensation
2. The Administrative Code on Enforcement of Safety and Health Standards
3. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards
4. Executive Order 307
5. Presidential Decree 626
6. RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Drug Act
7. RA 8504 of the National HIV/AIDS Law
8. DOH: Sanitation Code
9. DA: Fertilizer and Pesticide Act
10. DENR: RA 6969
11. RA 9185 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act
12. RA 6541 of the National Building Code of the Philippines
13. RA 9231 or the Special Protection of Children against Child Abuse, Exploitation and
Discrimination
I. THE PHILIPPINE LABOR CODE (PD 442)

▪ Aims to protect every citizen desiring to work locally or overseas by securing the best
possible terms and conditions of employment.
▪ Under Article 6, all rights and benefits granted to workers under this Code shall,
except as may otherwise be provided herein, apply alike to all workers, whether
agricultural or non-agricultural.
▪ WORKING CONDITIONS AND REST PERIODS:

• Article 83. Normal hours of work. The normal hours of work of any employee
shall not exceed eight (8) hours a day.
→ Health personnel in cities and municipalities with a population of at least
one million (1,000,000) or in hospitals and clinics with a bed capacity of at
least one hundred (100) shall hold regular office hours for eight (8) hours
a day, for five (5) days a week, exclusive of time for meals, except where
the exigencies of the service require that such personnel work for six (6)
days or forty-eight (48) hours, in which case, they shall be entitled to an
additional compensation of at least thirty percent (30%) of their regular
wage for work on the sixth day. For purposes of this Article, "health
personnel" shall include resident physicians, nurses, nutritionists,
dietitians, pharmacists, social workers, laboratory technicians,
paramedical technicians, psychologists, midwives, attendants and all
other hospital or clinic personnel.
• Article 84. Hours worked. Hours worked shall include (a) all time during which
an employee is required to be on duty or to be at a prescribed workplace; and
(b) all time during which an employee is suffered or permitted to work.
→ Rest periods of short duration during working hours shall be counted as
hours worked.
• Article 85. Meal periods. Subject to such regulations as the Secretary of Labor
may prescribe, it shall be the duty of every employer to give his employees not
less than sixty (60) minutes time-off for their regular meals.
▪ MEDICAL, DENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY

• Article 156. First-aid treatment. Every employer shall keep in his establishment
such first-aid medicines and equipment as the nature and conditions of work
may require, in accordance with such regulations as the Department of Labor
and Employment shall prescribe.
→ The employer shall take steps for the training of a sufficient number of
employees in first-aid treatment.
• Article 157. Emergency medical and dental services. It shall be the duty of every
employer to furnish his employees in any locality with free medical and dental
attendance and facilities consisting of:
→ The services of a full-time registered nurse when the number of
employees exceeds fifty (50) but not more than two hundred (200) except
when the employer does not maintain hazardous workplaces, in which
case, the services of a graduate first-aider shall be provided for the
protection of workers, where no registered nurse is available. The
Secretary of Labor and Employment shall provide by appropriate
regulations, the services that shall be required where the number of
employees does not exceed fifty (50) and shall determine by appropriate
order, hazardous workplaces for purposes of this Article;
→ The services of a full-time registered nurse, a part-time physician and
dentist, and an emergency clinic, when the number of employees exceeds
two hundred (200) but not more than three hundred (300); and
→ The services of a full-time physician, dentist and a full-time registered
nurse as well as a dental clinic and an infirmary or emergency hospital

with one bed capacity for every one hundred (100) employees when the
number of employees exceeds three hundred (300).
→ In cases of hazardous workplaces, no employer shall engage the
services of a physician or a dentist who cannot stay in the premises of
the establishment for at least two (2) hours, in the case of those engaged
on part-time basis, and not less than eight (8) hours, in the case of those
employed on full-time basis. Where the undertaking is non-hazardous in
nature, the physician and dentist may be engaged on retainer basis,
subject to such regulations as the Secretary of Labor and Employment
may prescribe to insure immediate availability of medical and dental
treatment and attendance in case of emergency. (As amended by
Presidential Decree NO. 570-A, Section 26).
• Article 159. Health program. The physician engaged by an employer shall, in
addition to his duties under this Chapter, develop and implement a
comprehensive occupational health program for the benefit of the employees of
his employer.
▪ COMPENSATION
• Article 86. Night shift differential. Every employee shall be paid a night shift
differential of not less than ten percent (10%) of his regular wage for each hour
of work performed between ten o’clock in the evening and six o’clock in the
morning.
• Article 89. Emergency overtime work. Any employee may be required by the
employer to perform overtime work in any of the following cases:
→ When the country is at war or when any other national or local
emergency has been declared by the National Assembly or the Chief
Executive;
→ When it is necessary to prevent loss of life or property or in case of
imminent danger to public safety due to an actual or impending
emergency in the locality caused by serious accidents, fire, flood,
typhoon, earthquake, epidemic, or other disaster or calamity;
→ When there is urgent work to be performed on machines, installations, or
equipment, in order to avoid serious loss or damage to the employer or
some other cause of similar nature;
→ When the work is necessary to prevent loss or damage to perishable
goods; and
→ Where the completion or continuation of the work started before the
eighth hour is necessary to prevent serious obstruction or prejudice to
the business or operations of the employer.
• Article 91. Right to weekly rest day.
→ It shall be the duty of every employer, whether operating for profit or not,
to provide each of his employees a rest period of not less than twenty-
four (24) consecutive hours after every six (6) consecutive normal work
days.
→ The employer shall determine and schedule the weekly rest day of his
employees subject to collective bargaining agreement and to such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of Labor and Employment may provide.
However, the employer shall respect the preference of employees as to

their weekly rest day when such preference is based on religious
grounds.
• Article 92. When employer may require work on a rest day. The employer may
require his employees to work on any day:
→ In case of actual or impending emergencies caused by serious accident,
fire, flood, typhoon, earthquake, epidemic or other disaster or calamity to
prevent loss of life and property, or imminent danger to public safety;
→ In cases of urgent work to be performed on the machinery, equipment, or
installation, to avoid serious loss which the employer would otherwise
suffer;
→ In the event of abnormal pressure of work due to special circumstances,
where the employer cannot ordinarily be expected to resort to other
measures;
→ To prevent loss or damage to perishable goods;
→ Where the nature of the work requires continuous operations and the
stoppage of work may result in irreparable injury or loss to the employer;
and
→ Under other circumstances analogous or similar to the foregoing as
determined by the Secretary of Labor and Employment.
• Article 93. Compensation for rest day, Sunday or holiday work.
→ Where an employee is made or permitted to work on his scheduled rest
day, he shall be paid an additional compensation of at least thirty percent
(30%) of his regular wage. An employee shall be entitled to such
additional compensation for work performed on Sunday only when it is
his established rest day.
→ When the nature of the work of the employee is such that he has no
regular workdays and no regular rest days can be scheduled, he shall be
paid an additional compensation of at least thirty percent (30%) of his
regular wage for work performed on Sundays and holidays.
→ Work performed on any special holiday shall be paid an additional
compensation of at least thirty percent (30%) of the regular wage of the
employee. Where such holiday work falls on the employee’s scheduled
rest day, he shall be entitled to an additional compensation of at least
fifty per cent (50%) of his regular wage.
→ Where the collective bargaining agreement or other applicable
employment contract stipulates the payment of a higher premium pay
than that prescribed under this Article, the employer shall pay such
higher rate.
❖ ETHICAL INSIGHT: CONFIDENTIALITY OF EMPLOYEE HEALTH INFORMATION

o In dealing with health information, the employee has a right to privacy and should “be
protected from unauthorized and inappropriate disclosure of personal information”
(AAOHN, 2004). However, exemptions must be made. These include:
i. life-threatening emergencies
ii. authorization by the employee to release information to others
iii. worker’s compensation information
iv. compliance with government laws and regulations

❖ LEVELS OF CONFIDENTIALITY
• LEVEL 1: Relates to the information required by law (e.g. Data on occupational illness
and injuries)
• LEVEL 2: Covers information that will assist in management of human resources (e.g.
Info from job placement and workability status of employee)
• LEVEL 3: Focuses on personal health information
✓ Disclosure of levels 1 and 2 information to management should be allowed only

on a need-to-know basis.
✓ Disclosure of level 3 information to management and regulatory agencies
should only be allowed as required by law.
✓ Disclosure of level 3 information to health insurance providers should only be
made with the written authorization of the employee.

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❖ DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY ACCORDING TO:

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❖ TWO MAIN TYPES OF COMMUNITIES (Maurer & Smith, 2009)

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❖ INDICATORS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS

❖ DEFINITION AND FOCUS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

• 9 ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH FUNCTIONS (ACCORDING TO WHO REGIONAL OFFICE

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• HEALTH PROMOTION AND LEVELS OF PREVENTION

• LEAVELL AND CLARK’S THREE LEVELS OF PREVENTION

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❖ CHN VS. COMMUNITY-BASED NURSING

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❖ Family – Basic unit of care in CHN

❖ THE INTERVENTION WHEEL

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❖ EMERGING FIELDS OF CHN IN THE PHILIPPINES

❖ COMPETENCY STANDARDS IN CHN

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❖ HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING IN THE PHILIPPINES

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❖ HOW THEORY PROVIDES DIRECTION TO NURSING

❖ GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY

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❖ SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

❖ THE HEALTH BELIEF MODEL

• Initially proposed in 1958

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❖ MILIO’S FRAMEWORK FOR PREVENTION

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❖ THE TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL

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CORE CONSTRUCTS OF THE TTM

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CHAPTER 3: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

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❖ MEDICINAL PLANT PREPARATION

❖ ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE MODALITIES

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY CARE

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CHAPTER 4: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: ENSURING HEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE

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❖ CORE PRINCIPLES AND GROUNDS FOR THE PRACTICE OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING:

❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS PARTICIPATIVE:

❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS DEMOCRATIC:

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❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS DEVELOPMENTAL:

❖ COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IS PROCESS-ORIENTED:

❖ PHASES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING:

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CHAPTER 5: HEALTH PROMOTION AND CAPACITY BUILDING STRATEGIES

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• STEPS OF RISK ASSESSMENT

• Risk Factor – an exposure that is associated with a disease