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Health Information Systems

Class HIS111

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Health Information System (HIS)

Collaborative effort to increase availability, access, and use of timely, relevant, and
reliable health information through shared agreement on goals and coordinated
efforts and investments in health information and knowledge system.

One among the pillar of Kalusugan Pangkalahatan (KP)

Purpose of Health Information System

to enable decision-makers at all levels of the health system to identify problems and
needs

Make evidence-based decisions on health policy

Allocate scarce resources optimally

Course Description
The course deals with the concepts and principles of Healthcare, Healthcare
Delivery Systems, and Health Informatics in conjunction with the practice of MLS.

Data Privacy and Confidentiality are also given due emphasis in this course as the
profession of MLS entails the collection, processing, and use of sensitive personal
and clinical information from patients and health institutions.

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 UIC Vision, Mission, Goals, and Objectives
Vision
A globally recognized Catholic University that nurtures faith, builds
passion for excellence, and develops lifelong learners with
compassion for service that impacts transformation in a fast-
changing society.

Mission
We commit ourselves to:

1. Provide an excellent educational experience to students to help them become

globally competitive and adaptive to change;

2. Inculcate among students the values of serving others with humility and love,
working for justice, promoting peace, and preserving the integrity of creation;

3. Engage in research activities in collaboration with local, regional, national and

international partners;

4. Uphold the dignity of the persons especially the poor;

5. Promote and strengthen our Filipino culture and values; and

6. Administer the university following Catholic doctrine.

Goal
Something you would like to achieve.

Goals give you direction and keep you focused on where you want
to end up.

The University of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic School that is an

instrumentality of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary that aims to
provide within its community of students and personnel Catholic values. Its goal is to

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 provide an educational program and environment animated by Catholic doctrine, beliefs,
teachings, traditions, and practices, the exercise of which is protected by, among others,
Article III, Section 5 of 1987 Philippine
Constitution.

In order for us to approximate our vision and live our mission, we dedicate all our
human resources to transform the members of the UIC family to become enlightened,
empowered, pro-active, and liberated Christian leaders living in a humane and
harmonious community for the love of God, country and the world.

Core Values
Faith

Excellence

Service

IGNITES
Integrated

God-centered

Nationalistic

Innovative

Transformative

Excellence

Service-oriented

Health
The presence or absence of disease.

Florence Nightingale
State of being well and using every power the individual possesses to the fullest
extent.

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 World Health Organization
State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.

Personal Definitions
Free from symptoms of disease and pain as much as possible.

Able to be active and to do what they want or must.

In good spirits most of the time

Health Education
A process concerned with designing, implementing, and evaluating educational
programs that enable families, groups, organizations, and communities to play
active roles in achieving, protecting, and sustaining health.

Any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary adaptations

of behavior conducive to health. (Green et. al, 1980)

Wellness
A state of well-being

Basic aspects of wellness include:

Self-responsibility

An ultimate goal

A dynamic and growing process

Daily decision making in areas of nutrition

Stress management

Physical Fitness

Preventive health care

Emotional Health

The whole being of the individual

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 Dimensions of Health
Physical
Ability to carry out daily tasks, achieve fitness;

Maintain adequate nutrition and proper body fat

Avoid abusing drugs and alcohol or using tobacco products

Generally practice positive lifestyle habits

Social
Ability to interact successfully with people and within the environment of which each
person is a part

To develop and maintain intimacy

Develop respect and tolerance for those with different opinions and beliefs

Emotional
Manage stress and express emotions appropriately

Intellectual
Learn and use information effectively

Spiritual
Belief in some force

Occupational
Achieve balance between work and leisure time

Environmental
Promote health measures that improve the standard of living and quality of life.

Health and Illness Continuum

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 Person's perceived level of wellness-illness

No boundary

Models of Health and Illness

1. Health-Illness (WHO, 1974)
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity.

Disease vs. Illness

Disease

There is a pathological change in the structure/function of the body/mind

Inherited genetic defects

Developmental Defects

Biological agents/toxins

Physiologic and emotional reactions to stress

Illness

The response of the person to a disease

2. Agent-Host Environmental Model (Leavell and Clark, 1965)

Agent

any environmental factor for illness to occur

Lack of essential nutrition

Chemical substance

Host

Person/s who may or may not be at risk of acquiring a disease

A living organism capable of being infected or affected by an agent

Environment

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 All factors external to the host that make illness more or less likely

Climate

Living condition

Cultural Factors

3. Health - Level Wellness Model (Halbert Dunn, 1961)

Functioning to one's maximum potential while maintaining balance and a purposeful
direction in the environment

Wellness

Is a more active state oriented toward maximizing the potential of the individual,
regardless of his state of health.

Good Health

A passive state wherein the person is not ill.

4. The Health Belief Model (Rosenstock, 1974)

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 5. The Health Promotion Model (Pender, 2002)
Illustrates how people interact with their environment as they pursue health

Incorporates:

Individual characteristics

experiences

behavior-specific knowledge

Beliefs

Major Areas of Risk Factors

Age
School-aged children are at high risk for communicable diseases

Menopause women are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease

Genetic Factors
A family Hx of cancer, DM, predisposes a person to develop the disease.

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 Physiologic Factors
Obesity increases the possibility of heart disease

Pregnancy places increase risk on both the mother and the developing fetus

Health Habits
Smoking increases the probability of lung cancer

Poor nutrition can lead to a variety of health problems

Lifestyle
Multiple sexual relationships increase the risk for STI

Events that increase stress may precipitate accidents or illness

Environment
Working and living environments may contribute to disease.

Health as a Basic Human Right

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25, Sec. 1)
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being
of himself and of his family

food, clothing, housing, medical care

Phil. Constitution of 1987

The state shall adopt an integrated & comprehensive approach to health.

Development which shall endeavor to make essential goods and other social
services available to all at affordable costs.

World Health Organization (1995)

Believes that governments have a responsibility for the health of their people which
can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and social measures.

3 Basic Positive Concepts

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 Reflecting concern for the individual as a total person

Placing health, in the context of the environment

Equating health, with productive and creative living

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