General Health Education on Disease Prevention Community Social Project
All people, everywhere, have the right to achieve the highest attainable level of health. This is the fundamental premise of primary health care (PHC).
Primary health care is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organize and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities.
Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more. This strategy also ensures that health care is delivered in a way that is centered on people’s needs and respects their preferences (WHO).
Based on that, our fourth grade students, with the supervision of Dr. Kareem Fatah and Mr. Goran Nuri, visited Malfandi PHC in order to become familiar with all protocols and regulations for preventing diseases and promoting health in this PHC in Erbil City, such as vaccinations for pregnant women and children of different ages, family planning, child anthropometric measurements, eye checkups, tooth assessments, and controlling and treating chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure.
Our students created a poster and brochure on how to prevent and control diabetes, raise breast cancer awareness, and explain many other health issues to pregnant women in order to protect them from diseases and health problems. The PHC staff also spoke to the students about the most common health problems in the community and how to prevent those diseases by educating them and raising health awareness in the community.
General Health Education on Disease Prevention Community Social Project Agenda
- Location: Malfandi Primary Health Care
- Date: 18 / 10 / 2022 Tuesday
- Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
First day
Greetings from the principle and primary health care staff
The Malfandi PHC’s principal extended a warm welcome to the participating nursing faculty and students. He conducted a tour to familiarize with all the procedures and rules.
Instructing clients by students (Chronic Disease)
In order to safeguard clients from illnesses and health issues, students taught them how to control and prevent chronic illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, and most others that have an impact on daily life.
Evaluating and Monitoring clients by students
Students evaluated and monitored clients who got immunizations for pregnant women and children of various ages, family planning, child anthropometric measurements.
Brochure and poster distribution
Our students created a poster and brochure on disease prevention and distributed among clients
General Health Education on Disease Prevention Community Social Project Agenda
- Location: Malfandi Primary Health Care
- Date: 25/ 10 / 2022 Tuesday
- Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Second day
Instructing clients by students (Maternity)
Students taught clients how to raise breast cancer awareness and explain several other health issues to pregnant women in order to protect them from illnesses and health problems.
Evaluating and Monitoring clients by students
Students assessed and followed up with clients who had eye exams, dental exams, and were managing and treating chronic diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus.
Brochure and poster distribution
While addressing each preventative, our students prepared posters and leaflets, which they then gave to clients to help them grasp the topic better.
