Health agencies

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A state health agency (SHA), or state department of health, is a department or agency of the state governments of the United States focused on public health. The state secretary of health is a constitutional or at times a statutory official in several states of the United States. The position is the chief executive official for the state's state health agency (or equivalent), chief administrative officer for the state's Board of Health (or equivalent), or both.

1. What are the functions of health care system?
Functions of health care systems:
1. Reduction in mortality rate
2. Increase in the life expectancy
3. Decrease in population growth
4. Improvement in nutritional status
5. Provision of basic sanitation and literacy

2. What type of services are expected by any health care system?
Services of health care systems:
1. It should be able to cure and prevent the spread of the disease.
2. The systems and its activities should be acceptable to the people in the community.
3. It should allow the participation of the members of the community in its activities.
4. All the members of the community should be able to afford the cost of the treatment in other words, the treatment should be a low-cost treatment.

3. Describe the duties of village health guide.
Duties of health guide:
1. Treatment of simple ailments.
2. Giving first aid.
3. To provide information as sanitation, mother and child health care.
4. Small family norms.

4. What are the main functions of a primary-health care centre?
Functions of health care centre (PHC):
1. Medical care
2. Mother and child health care including family planning.
3. Safe water supply and basic sanitation.
4. Prevention and control of local diseases.
5. Collecting statistical information.
6. Health education.
7. Training of health guides, health workers, dayees.
8. Basic laboratory investigations.


5. How does a local dayee differ from Anganwadi worker in the nature of duties they
perform?
(or)
Write the differences between duties of Local dayees and Anganwadi worker.

Sl.No.                   LOCAL DAYEE                                     ANGANWADI WORKER
1.                  Local dayee carries out the                          Anganwadi worker is alloted by
                         deliveries in rural areas.                            integrated child development
                         She is untrained lady.                                scheme population of 1000.
2.                    Local dayee learn necessory                   Anganwadi workers are trained in
                          techniques by observation.                   various aspects of health nutrition
                           and child development.
3.                   Untrained local dayees                                 Anganwadi workers conduct
                      conduct deliveries in                                   deliveries in hygienic conditions.
                       unhygienic conditions.
4.                   Local dayee attend the                          Anganwadi workers conduct regular
                   deliveries at the patient's home.              health check up, immunization, health
                   education and non-formal pre

                            schooleducation.

Fill up the blanks:
1. Health care system is meant to improve the status of the population of ________
2. ________ are established for population size of 3000 to 5000.
3. One ________ is allotted to a population of 1000.
4. ________ is not an employee of government.
5. Each primary health centres covers a population of _______ and spread over about ________ villages.

Answers:
1. Urban and rural
2. Sub centre hospitals
3. Anganwadi worker
4. Village health guide

5. 1,00,000, 100

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