Promote health risk prevention
Student: Kafi Alrasheedy, No.
Introduction and background
 Within the KSA, the MOH is responsible for
creating healthcare policies, and for the
planning, management, supervision, and
evaluation of health outcomes.
 In Saudi Arabia, the MOH operates under
primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of care.
Similarly, primary care centers (equivalent to
Australian GPs) act as the gatekeepers to more
economically exhaustive tertiary levels of
healthcare services.
 Immunizations are the most effective way to
reduce incidence of vaccine-preventable
diseases.
 The progressive decrease in tertiary health
service engagement does correlate with
increasing primary health clinics in Saudi
Arabia to some degree, efficiency is critical to
sustainability
Primarypractice
Advance health care (PHC)
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the health field. Its objective is to deliver
integrated health service .
 Promotion of quality has always been an
integral part of primary health care programs
in Saudi Arabia.
 These guidelines cover the main aspects of
primary care including: community
participation, child health care, immunization,
referral, chronic disease management,
prescribing, health education, maternal health
care, management of communicable diseases,
and environmental health.
 National immunization programs should
articulate their overall program direction and
needs through the development of a
comprehensive, funded multi-year plan in line
Policy / strategy / intervention
 Saudi Arabia is a welfare state and its
government, according to Article 31 of the
Saudi constitution, is oblige to provide free
healthcare services to all Saudi.
 The citizens have the right to free
healthcare services, which have been
provided for via the development of health
policy.
 This policy is committed to a “Health for All
(HFA)” goal. The objective of the Saudi
government is to provide free medical care
for all Saudis in public healthcare facilities.
 Effectiveness has two elements: clinical
care and interpersonal care.
 The Ministry of Health began to implement
TQM in hospitals in the 1990s
 The KSA
Critiques andgovernment is responsible
evaluated primary health for
operating, financing and managing the
public healthcare sector, which delivers
80% of all healthcare services, free of
charge at the point of use, to Saudi
citizens
 To improve quality, management
programs and organizational culture must
be promoted in primary health care.
 Improving healthcare quality can be
viewed on both a macro and a micro level,
as something that will require sweeping,
systemic change of the entire healthcare
system and as something that individual
physicians can practice for their patients.
Impact of policy/ strategy / intervention
 For policy makers to make informed
decisions, a detailed assessment of the
health system is required.
 Combating infectious diseases, by relying on
the databases of the National Center for
Disease Prevention and Integrated Control
to support preventive measures, and raising
readiness to confront health disasters by
establishing monitoring and response
centers and central operating rooms in
coordination between the concerned
authorities.
 Authorities, control of non-communicable
diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and
cancer.
 Strengthening awareness programs,
research and national disease registries
Concepts
Analyze of health
primary arecare
health incompatible
service with
contradictory understandings between
groups and individuals.
 As health practitioners, we need to be
aware of these different cultural
interpretations and what it means for
individuals, families, and communities to
be ill or healthy
 Primary health care is a set of principles
and an organizing framework to guide
nurses and other health practitioners in
facilitating socially just, equitable
conditions for good health.
 The International Conference on Primary
Health Care was held in Alma Ata in 1978,
Evaluation
 Essential health care based on practical,
scientifically sound and socially
acceptable methods and technology made
universally accessible to individuals and
families in the community through their
full participation and at a cost that the
community and country can afford to
maintain at every stage of their
development in the spirit of self-reliance
and self-determination.
 It is the first level of contact with
individuals, the family and community
with the national health systems bringing
health care as close as possible to where
people live and work and constitutes the
first element of a continuing care process.
An investment
Conclusions in resources for primary
and recommendations
healthcare staff and medical facilities is
strongly recommended to support
primary care providers in becoming the
accepted and preferred community
frontline for healthcare needs' assessment
and care delivery in quality standards and
facilities such as Immunization.
Immunization is one of the most
successful and cost-effective interventions
to prevent child illness and save children’s
lives.