How does ward-based primary health care function?
Our approach to primary care in the wards is called community oriented primary care or COPC. COPC is a way of doing primary health.
In COPC
CHWs do not work alone:
We work together and learn together:
To look after ourselves and the health of our families we all need to become health literate. Health is everyone’s concern. Health is something we all can learn. In COPC we make health a shared responsibility and learning part of doing health care. Students and professionals work with WBOTs and families to improve everyone’s knowledge and practice.
How ward-based primary health care works?
Step 1: Household registration - to begin ward-based primary health we need to find out who lives in your home and what your family and individual health situation is. We call this household registration.
Step 2: Health status assessment - after registration, your CHW will come back and find out about each individual’s health. We call this a health status assessment.
Step 3: Urgent health care needs - through their WBOT, your CHWs will also help you attend to health problems that need urgent attention.
Step 4: Planning and intervening - using all the information, the WBOT will develop and implement plans to support local health.
The registration and the individual health status information will be captured by a Community Health Care Worker (CHW)on an application on a cell phone. This data will be used to do five important things, namely -
Confidentiality:
Information collected from household family members is sent to a closed system created by the Department of Health/City of Tshwane/University of Pretoria. It cannot be sent to or seen by service providers who are not part of the team.
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