'Public Health Promotion Strategy\r'

' populace health progression Strategy of Lhuntse Introduction Public wellness is the premier priority of a nation as wellness is the chief priority to man. According to the American Public Health Association, APHA(2001), public wellness as the radiation pattern of preventing diseases and promoting good health within groups of bulk from modest communities to entire countries. The functions of public health include preventing epidemics, observe health status of the people, developing policies and laws to protect health, providing health cargon function at all be and all activities related to benefiting public and their health.Bhutan, within the bourne of China in the north and India in the south, was a late bloomer in to exploitation. Now, 90% of the population has access to basic health care services delivered through a network of 29 hospitals, 176 basic Health Units and 541 out urinate clinics. Of the twenty Dzongkhags or districts in Bhutan, Lhuentse dzongkhag is un matchable of the least developed with eight gewogs. â€Å"Most of the villages are put away in accessible with lack of roads and electricity. one hospital, 11 Basic Health Units and 31 Outreach clinics render public health services in the dzongkhag.About 50% of the kinfolkholds have access to piped drunkenness wet supply. ”(Ninth five year externalize, Bhutan, n. d). This paper plans to nidus on studying the public health sector scenario in the particular dzongkhag and improving it. Purpose of the action plan Purpose of the action plan is to promote sundry(a) factors such as followings •To improve maternal health care, it is very essential to provide healthy expression of health services to improve maternal health care to make pregnancy safe. Mother’s education, Mother’s education is the basic intimacy of parenting. •To Improvement in feed supply and sanitation, advantages in food supply and sanitation will tow to add-on life spans and reduce disease. Initiatives taken by the health services such as flashy drinking water supply and hygiene direct help in improvement in food supply and sanitation. • To Reduce in Poverty, to make step-down in poverty line . To Change vivification standard, with the development taking place in the country, active standard of the people has been rapidly changed.Public health Issues and Concerns •Lhuentse Dzongkhags has the upkeep over the issues related to public health as follows; •As the morbidity among the pincerren under five year of age and all heavy(predicate) women and women in child bearing age was accounted to , Male-767 and Female-642. (PHCB, pg. 191). •The number of deliveries of the new born(p) babies attended by health professionals was †90 pregnant women, whereas, the number of deliverie not attended was recorded to -231 cases as famous in (PHCB, pg. 04). •According to PHCB, 2005,The Dzongkhag has excessively noted the increa se in the number of disables that was numbered to 990 people and more or less were disabled to seeing that was recorded to-327 people. (PHCB,pg. 211) •Most of the people in the Dzongkhag had especial(a) access to safe drinking water with the account of 253 households having piped water within house and 2377 households having piped water outside house. (PHCB, pg. 222) 5.The people in the Dzongkhag had limited acces to basic health facility of proper toilet. As, 2143 households had the availability to pit latrine and 423 households had no latrines at all (PHCB, pg. 241). The issues also includes, •Maternal and child health •The lack of regimen in the diet leading to malnutrition •Outbreak of infected diseases •The high alcohol consumption leading to increase in alcohol related diseases (Liver cirrhosis). Public Health Promotion StrategyTheir strategies put emphasis on improvement ofquality of services, development of human and institutional capacity, and decentralization with focus on rural access. 1. Enhance the quality of health services To improve the quality of services and progress consolidate the infrastructure. Standardization and quality assurance, focusing on diagnostic and healing aspects, and use of appropriate technology. 2. To reach the inaccessible population There are still population groups who are not reached satisfactorily by the health services.Taking into account all of the problems and factors, Out stretchiness Clinics (ORCs) have been constructed and organized. 3. Strengthen traditional medicine remains The traditional medicine system is being fortify with the emphasis on human resource development through the Institute of Traditional Medicine. This has also been include in the ordinary health services at the hospital. The capacity and productivity of the Pharmaceutical Units have been increased.\r\n'