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Vital signs
• measurements of physiologic functioning, specifically
body temp, respiratory, cardiac, BP, may include pain
and pulse oximetry
What is BHW?
• is to provide primary care
• assist nurses in health center
• to provide care with in the community without the
presence of nurses and doctors
• needed to be trained and certify the community to
perform primary health care
Duties and responsibilities:
Procedure:
Weight and height taking:
Vital signs taking
Traditional health practice
Reproductive health:
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and
not merely absence of disease in all matters regarding
reproduction
Goal:
To achieve healthy sexual development
To achieve their reproductive intention
To avoid illness
To provide appropriate counseling
MATERNAL CARE
home delivery
Communicable disease:
To provide information about non communicable and
communicable dse.
Leading communicable disease- tubeculosis
In 1997 16 million filipino’s are infected with tb
DOH provide DOTS program to control TB prevalence
( Direct Observed Treatment Short course
MODE OF transmission
Airborne
Droplet
Direct invasion d/t cuts, mucus
Other communicable diseases
>leprosy
> Measles
Mumps
Chicken Pox
Influenza
Pneumonia
Hepatitis
NON COMMUNICABLE:
Cardiac diseases
DIABETES
Kidney dse
Heath Education/teaching
way in planning community teaching
ways of acquiring funds
making program
proposing programs