Health & Wellness
Help your heart by making healthier food choices.
Excess weight puts a strain on your heart.
Avoid high blood pressure.
Relax and reduce your stress levels.
Try to exercise regularly.
You should try to give up smoking.
Healthcare
Primary Health Care
What is primary health care?
Primary health care refers to an approach to health and a spectrum of services beyond the traditional health care system. It includes all services that play a part in health, such as income, housing, education, and environment. Primary care is the element within primary health care that focuses on health care services, including health promotion, illness and injury prevention, and the diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury. Click here to view examples of Primary Health Care Centres within S.W.R.H.A. Health care services in primary health care Primary health care serves a dual function in the health care system:
1. Direct provision of first-contact services (by providers such as family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and telephone advice lines);
2. A co-ordination function to ensure continuity and ease of movement across the system, so that care remains integrated when patients require more specialized services (with specialists or in hospitals, for example).
Responsiveness to community needs is a key element of primary health care. Therefore, the range and configuration of services may vary from one community to another.
Primary health care services often include:
* Prevention and treatment of common diseases and injuries
* Basic emergency services
* Referrals to/coordination with other levels of care (such as hospitals and specialist care)
* Primary mental health care
* Palliative and end-of-life care
* Health promotion
* Healthy child development
* Primary maternity care
* Rehabilitation services
Secondary Health Care
Click here for Secondary Health Services:
San Fernando General Hospital
Point Fortin Area Hospital
Tertiary Health Care
What is Tertiary Health Care :
Specialized consultative care, usually on referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working in a centre that has personnel and facilities for special investigation and treatment.
What is primary health care?
Primary health care refers to an approach to health and a spectrum of services beyond the traditional health care system. It includes all services that play a part in health, such as income, housing, education, and environment. Primary care is the element within primary health care that focuses on health care services, including health promotion, illness and injury prevention, and the diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury. Click here to view examples of Primary Health Care Centres within S.W.R.H.A. Health care services in primary health care Primary health care serves a dual function in the health care system:
1. Direct provision of first-contact services (by providers such as family physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and telephone advice lines);
2. A co-ordination function to ensure continuity and ease of movement across the system, so that care remains integrated when patients require more specialized services (with specialists or in hospitals, for example).
Responsiveness to community needs is a key element of primary health care. Therefore, the range and configuration of services may vary from one community to another.
Primary health care services often include:
* Prevention and treatment of common diseases and injuries
* Basic emergency services
* Referrals to/coordination with other levels of care (such as hospitals and specialist care)
* Primary mental health care
* Palliative and end-of-life care
* Health promotion
* Healthy child development
* Primary maternity care
* Rehabilitation services
Secondary Health Care
Click here for Secondary Health Services:
San Fernando General Hospital
Point Fortin Area Hospital
Tertiary Health Care
What is Tertiary Health Care :
Specialized consultative care, usually on referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working in a centre that has personnel and facilities for special investigation and treatment.
