CHAPTER 2

Review of Related Literature and Studies This chapter discusses and reviews the various local and foreign literatures that have relevance on the current researches. It further explains and expound on the subject of the study making it more interesting and well supported.

Foreign Related studies According to Kenneth B. Wells, Roland Sturm, and Audrey Burnam (UCLA and RAND) that the principal investigators of the Healthcare for Communities Project (HCC), which tracked changes in health policy, health care delivery, access to care, and costs and outcomes of care related to alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health conditions. As part of this project, respondents to the first and second CTS Household Surveys were re-interviewed about their health, mental health, and daily activities; alcohol and illicit drug use; use of medications; general health insurance coverage and coverage for mental health, substance abuse, and prescription medications; access, utilization, and quality of behavioral health care; labor market status, income, and wealth; and life difficulties. In essence, health cares are very efficient in the community it allows the government to monitor the actual situation of the people along its boundaries and what are the things that is needed specially in health problem. According Alma Ata there are eight essential elements. An essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally, accessible to individuals and families in the community by means of acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost that community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination. The global goal as stated in the Alma Ata Declaration is Health for all by the year 2000 through self-reliance. It includes the following items:

1. Health Education begins at home, in schools and in the workplace because it is there where people live and work that health is made or broken. 2. Treatment of Locally Endemic Diseases It means that essential health services will be accessible to all individuals and families in an acceptable and affordable way. 3. Expanded Program on Immunization. Community generates support (cash, labor) for health programs. 4. Maternal and Child Health it means Works towards addressing unmet need for postpartum family planning 5. Provision of Essential Drugs. It also means that here will be even distribution among the population of whatever resources for health are available. 6. Nutrition it also means that here will be even distribution among the population of whatever resources for health are available. 7. Treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases. It also means that people will use better approaches than they do now for preventing diseases and alleviating unavoidable disease and disability and have better ways of growing up, growing old and dying gracefully. 8. Safe water and good waste disposal it means Convergence of health, food, nutrition, water, sanitation and population services. In a nutshell, health is very essential to a person and families in the community it is a basic need of a person/individual to survive. According to Green and Dovey the evolution of the academic discipline of primary care throughout the world is resulting in more primary care practitioners taking part in research. Primary care has a generalist nature, 1 and several research approaches are therefore required to understand the complex interplay between medical and psychosocial factors in the discipline.2 Collaboration is needed between primary care professionals (general practitioners, nurses, health visitors, etc) and a variety of academics with a breadth of expertise.3 In this article we give an overview of primary care research networks.

According to Carl Taylor the origins, concepts, and development of community-based primary health care through case studies from both developing and developed countries. As in clinical bedside teaching, we use real cases to help students develop problem-solving skills in practical situations. We also discuss participatory approaches in the organization and management of health services and other factors such as equity, socio-cultural change, environmental protection, and the process of community empowerment. In summary, an effective health care facility will ensure that health essentials are available for use when needed, that individuals and families living in the community that is within the border of a certain local government will be provided a health program that is offered through their barangays.

Local Literature and Studies

Philippines local government unit health system is in a period of transition as policy innovation and reform has only begun as of 1996. Importantly, the Ministry of Health (MoH) and donor agencies have undergone a series of innovations in an attempt to grow capacity as well as equitable access of the health system. There must, however, be more encompassing research in the context of Philippine that will allow for greater interactions with implementing policy. Philippines health system literature must be focused on knowledge translation and research must be expanded to incorporate local contexts and challenges. Using a knowledge translation framework, Ir, Bigdeli, Meessen & Van Damme (2010) suggest that knowledge translation is rarely a linear process and involves the interaction between wide ranges of partners. Their proposed framework for analyzing the knowledge translation of the Health Care Facility System (HCFS) process includes four stages: 1) exploiting existing knowledge; 2) creating new knowledge or innovations; 3) transferring new knowledge; and

4) adopting and using knowledge.

Essential and connecting all four stages is the context environment for which knowledge is produced. In addition, the WHO World Report on Knowledge for Better Health (2004) states that: Every country should have a national health research system that focuses its energies on health problems of national interest, especially those which will strengthen health systems (p. xv). Therefore, for translation of knowledge into policy, the Philippine Local Government Unit health system requires a continued and comprehensive assessment of the stock of knowledge available within the health system from which to build.

Synthesis and Relevance to the Study The study of local and foreign literatures as part of related studies reiterates the importance, benefits and advantages of enhancing the process of computerized systems in the Philippines. records management and

The analysis, design, development, and

improvement of Health Care Facility System should speak for itself. In todays technology there is no doubt that computerization in any health care system is a must in order to produce quality, accurate and fast delivering of recorded information toward those problems that can encountered through manual.