Health Promotion:Philippines

By Brooke Edwards, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Emily Mortenson, and Hope Oudbier

The Philippines

• Location

• Population

• Poverty

• Access

• Education

• Safe Water

• Healthcare

Health Belief Model

• Perception

• Prevention

• Education

• Benefits

• Barriers

Health Problems

• “Triple Burden” of disease

• Living on under $2/day

• Low vaccination rates

• HIV epidemic

• Life expectancy:

• Female: 72

• Male: 65

Nursing Diagnoses

• Risk for infection related to deficient knowledge to avoid exposure to pathogens evidence by bacterial gastroenteritis among the population.

• Risk for non-communicable disease related to lifestyle choice and knowledge deficit.  

Nursing Diagnoses (cont.)

• Risk for infection related to limited defenses against pathogens.

• Deficient knowledge related to limited education and access to contraception

Food Preparation Safety

• Hand Hygiene

• Clean Surfaces

• Cleaning Fruits And Vegetables

• Cook meats through entirely

• Wash surfaces after preparing raw meats

• Use Purified water for everything

Clean Water

● Over 30 million people in the Philippines do not have access to improved sanitation facilities

● Out of this, 7.8 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the country's population don't have access to sanitation facilities at all

● This leads to open defecation

What Can WE Do?

• Water Purification Education: Boiling water for 15-20 minutes kills 99.9% of all living things and vaporizes most chemicals

• Education: Incorporating this simple yet important important information in the school system

• Hold clinics with demonstrations on how to purify water

• With using filters and having more access to clean water children should be able to have cloth diapers leading to better control of feces

• Sewage management

Non-Communicable Diseases

• Accountable for more than half of deaths

• Are preventable through lifestyle changes

• Heart and vascular problems a third of all deaths.

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• Diabetes Mellitus

• Malignant neoplasm

• Hypertension exacerbates many diseases

Hypertension

• Hospital admissions

• Treatment reduces disease risks

• PhilHealth coverage

• Lifestyle changes need to be made

Lifestyle Changes

• Tobacco

• Diet changes

• Physical activity

Communicable Disease

• 8 of the 10 leading causes of morbidity in 2008

• Acute lower respiratory tract infection and pneumonia, acute watery diarrhea, bronchitis/broncholitis, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, acute febrile illness and dengue fever

Malaria

• A parasitic mosquito-borne disease that causes fever, chills, and flu-like symptoms

• Causes severe complications and fatality if left untreated.

• 74% decrease in the number of cases

• Possible eradication by 2020.

• 9,552 cases were reported in 2012

Eradication of Malaria

• Vector control

• Surveillance

• Early diagnosis and treatment

• Health education

Maternal and Pediatric Health Care

• Maternal Mortality (Goodwin)

• % attendance of skilled birth attendant (Goodwin)

• Deficient Knowledge

Problems Affecting Maternal Healthcare

• Implementations to help maternal education

• Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health)

• Armed conflict and how it affects maternal health (Goodwin)

Conclusion

By 2020 we will have these goals accomplished

• Well known water purification methods

• Evidence of proper food preparation safety

• Evidence of decreased hypertension by lifestyle changes

• Decreased prevalence of communicable disease due to increased defences

• 30% maternal health clinics and 25% increased skilled birth attendants

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