{"id":8008,"date":"2017-03-02T19:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?page_id=8008"},"modified":"2018-03-27T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T18:22:31","slug":"unidades-de-atencion-primaria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/salud\/unidades-de-atencion-primaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Healthcare Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article 43 of Decree\u00a0No. 635-03\u00a0which enshrined\u00a0the\u00a0Jurisdictional Regulations and Separation of Functions of the National Health Service (SNS)\u00a0established that healthcare services for\u00a0the care of\u00a0persons are organized in two related levels, which\u00a0guarantee equal access to the system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Level of Primary and Ambulance Healthcare, centered on the promotion of health, prevention of sicknesses, epidemiological surveillance and monitoring of special patients which\u00a0covers\u00a0emergencies and household care.<\/li>\n<li>A Level of Specialized Care for general hospitalization, equipped with human resources and technologies to attend the demands of patients who need to be hospitalized and receive surgery for complications or emergencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Primary Healthcare Unit:<\/h2>\n<p>Article 19 of the Regulations of Provision of Services defines the Primary Healthcare Unit (UNAPS) as the main body for the provision of services at the First Level of Healthcare,\u00a0 considered the\u00a0entry door to the National Health Service (SNS) and to social security.<\/p>\n<p>The article\u00a0establishes that all Dominicans must be registered in the UNAP closest to their home, which must be authorized for the providing of services by the Ministry of Public Health, independent from an insurer, with the purpose of receiving services guaranteed by both levels of healthcare.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>References<\/i><i>:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sespas.gov.do\/cs01\">http:\/\/www.sespas.gov.do\/cs01<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paho.org\/dor\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1904:ministerio-de-salud-pone-en-circulacion-guias-para-el-diseno-y-construccion-de-establecimientos-de-salud&amp;Itemid=216\">http:\/\/www.paho.org\/dor\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observatoriorh.org\/dominicana\/sites\/observatoriorh.org.dominicana\/files\/webfiles\/taller_cs_abril2014\/modelo_atencion_dom.pdf\">http:\/\/www.observatoriorh.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conep.org.do\/attachment\/000000025.pdf\">http:\/\/www.conep.org.do\/attachment\/000000025.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance\u00a0(2008).\u00a0Organization of Units of Primary Healthcare Manual. Retrieved from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conep.org.do\/attachment\/000000025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.conep.org.do\/attachment\/000000025.pdf<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 43 of Decree\u00a0No. 635-03\u00a0which enshrined\u00a0the\u00a0Jurisdictional Regulations and Separation of Functions of the National Health Service (SNS)\u00a0established that healthcare services for\u00a0the care of\u00a0persons are organized in two related levels, which\u00a0guarantee equal access to the system: A Level of Primary and Ambulance Healthcare, centered on the promotion of health, prevention of sicknesses, epidemiological surveillance and monitoring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/salud\/unidades-de-atencion-primaria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primary Healthcare Centers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3991,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8008","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9870,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8008\/revisions\/9870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}