CHAPTER I

1.1 Background of the Study

In our life, medical services and healthcare are quite important. They give us the assistance and a
ttention we need to maintain our health and wellness. For the diagnosis and treatment of diseases
, injuries, and other medical issues, healthcare and medical services are indispensable. Additional
ly, they offer screenings and immunizations as preventive care to keep us healthy. Medical servic
es can also give us access to tools that can help us manage our health and emotional and mental s
upport. Access to drugs, therapies, and other treatments that can help us manage our medical issu
es is another reason why healthcare and medical services are crucial. All things considered, recei
ving medical care and services is essential to maintaining our mental, emotional, and physical he
alth. Health services serves patients, families, communities, and populations. they cover
emergency, preventative, long-term, hospital, diagnostic, primary, palliative, and home care.
these services are centered around making health care accessible, high quality, and patient –
centered. health care is improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment,
amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury and other physical and mental impairments in
people.

The enhancement of health through the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration, or cure of
disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental limitations in humans is known as healthca
re or health care delivery. Health professionals and other related health areas provide healthcare.
Health care includes the following professions: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursin
g, optometry, audiology, psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, athletic training, an
d other related fields. The phrase encompasses work in public health as well as primary, secondar
y, and tertiary care [Link] created to address the health requirements of certain p
opulations are known as health systems. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), a functio
nal healthcare system necessitates a funding source, a workforce that is both well-trained and app
ropriately compensated, dependable data to support policy and decision-making, and well-
maintained healthcare facilities to provide high-quality medications and [Link] effectiv
e healthcare system can play a major role in the economic growth and industrialization of a natio
n. The WHO declared smallpox to be the first disease in human history to be eradicated internati
onally by intentional healthcare interventions in 1980. This serves as an example of how health c
are plays a significant role in promoting the general physical and mental health and well-being of
people worldwide Medical care has several important functions other than restoring or
maintaining health. These other functions are assessment and certification of health status,
prognostication, segregation of the ill to limit communication of illness, and helping to cope with
the problems of illness--the caring function. Medical care serving these "Para curative" functions
may legitimately be given independently, without associated curing or preventive intent of the
provider of care. Although such services do not result in benefits to health, such as extension of
life or reduction of disability, they do have other valued outcomes, outcomes not measurable as a
gain in personal health status. For example, caring activities may result in satisfaction, comfort,
or desirable affective states, even while the patient's health status deteriorates during an incurable
illness. The physician's approach to patients, the economist's analysis of the benefits of health
services, the planner's decisions about health programs, the evaluator's judgments about the
quality of care, or the patient's expectations about treatment are strongly influenced by his
assumptions about the purpose of medical care or the proper outcome of the process. When the
health worker assumes that the only useful outcome is health, he may consider the Para curative
services to be ineffective, inefficient, or undesirable. In contrast, when he recognizes and
understands the Para curative functions of medical care, he may better perform his function in
the medical care system.

Barangay Dimaluna is one of the barangay here in MSU, Marawi city who struggle in medical
needs and services With funding limitations, barangay health stations struggle with lack of
medicines supplies, long wait times, declines in quality of facility infrastructure, and lack of
proper training and staffing. The rural poor are the most susceptible to poor sanitation,
malnutrition, and lack of hygiene efforts….

1.2Statement of the problem

This study aims to measure the health risk and medical needs of the people in Dimaluna,
MSU, Marawi City to the preservation and readiness of medicals equipment’s.

Specifically, this study sought to find answers to the following questions:

1. What is the socio-demographic profile of the respondents in terms of:
 1.1 Age

1.2 Gender

1.3 Educational Background

1.4 Civil Status

1.5 Monthly Allowance/Salary

2.) Level of inadequate access to medical services coupled with prevailing health risk presents a
significant challenge, leading to disparities in healthcare delivery and outcomes?
3.) Insufficient access to preventive healthcare services or health risk, leading to increased
prevalence of chronic diseases and avoidable burdens.
4.) Disparities in medical services availability and quality contribute to unequal health outcomes,
particularly among marginalized populations, perpetuating systematic health risk and widening
health inequalities.
1,3 Conceptual Framework

Socio-demographic profile of the

respondents: Measurement of the health risk and
medical needs of the people in
 Age Dimaluna, MSU, Marawi City to the
 Gender advantage and readiness of their
 Educational Background medicals equipment’s.
 Civil Status
 Monthly Salary/Allowance

Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of the study

The diagram shown in figure 1 illustrates the conceptual framework of the study. It portrays the
possible relationship of the socio-demographic profile of the respondents which include age,
gender, educational background, civil status, monthly allowance/salary and Measurement of the
health risk and medical needs of the people in Dimaluna, MSU, Marawi City to the advantage
and readiness of their medicals equipment’s.

1.4 Significance of the study

This study will be conducted to measurement of the health risk and medical needs of the people
in Dimaluna, MSU, Marawi City to the advantage and readiness of their medicals equipment’s.
Moreover, this study is significant to the following:
To the eligible people in Dimaluna MSU, Marawi City. The result of the study will measure
the awareness to the preservation of health risk and medical needs against inadequate and
unsustainable equipment, material and medicines to the people in Dimaluna MSU, Marawi City.
Thus, this research can serve as a guide to learn the basic lifelong experiences to the advantage
and readiness of their medical tools.
To the community people. This study can serve as an eye opener for them to remind their selves
in preserving and be aware for their surrounding in their community against not advancement
when it comes to their medical tools.
To the students. The findings of this study will help the student to realize the importance of the
advancement of the medical tools in their community.
To the future researcher. The result of the study will serve as their references in conducting
similar studies and guide them in making research related to this study.

1.5 Scope and Limitations of the Study

This research study will focus on the will measure the awareness to the preservation of

health risk and medical needs against inadequate and unsustainable equipment, material and

medicines to the people in Dimaluna MSU, Marawi City to its advantage and readiness of their

medical tools. The researchers are focused on specific group of people in a given population of
Dimaluna MSU, Marawi City since they can give more relevant information to this study. This

study pursues to determine all the realizable causes and effect of the main problem of the study.

The respondents of this study will only be limited around the people of Marawi City particularly

in Barangay Dimaluna MSU. The researchers will only cover the random selection of the people,

and only limited to 60 respondents based on convenience sampling.

1.6 Operational Definitions of Terms

The following are defined to have a better understanding of the terminologies used in this

study.

Medical Services - Means Medically Necessary services, including, as the context requires,
Confinement, treatments, procedures, tests, examinations or other related services for the
investigation or treatment of a Disability.

HealthCare – it is efforts made to maintain, restore, or promote someone's

physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially when performed
by trained and licensed professionals.

Equipment or tools - An article, instrument, apparatus or machine that is used in the prevention,
diagnosis or treatment of illness or disease, or for detecting, measuring, restoring, correcting or
modifying the structure or function of the body for some health purpose. Typically, the purpose
of a medical device is not achieved by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means .

Medicines – it is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing

the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease,
and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to
maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine
applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose,
treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also
through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical
devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Community - A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially
significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs,
or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a
country, village, town, or neighborhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms.
Durable good relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of
community, important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family,
home, work, government, TV network, society, or humanity at large. [1] Although communities
are usually small relative to personal social ties, "community" may also refer to large group
affiliations such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities.

People - A people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the
term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation.[1] The term
"the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity.[1] As such it is a concept
of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims
of popular sovereignty.

Respondents - A respondent is a person who is called upon to issue a response to a

communication made by another. The term is used in legal contexts, in survey methodology, and
in psychological conditioning.

Unsustainable - incapable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural

resources or causing severe ecological damage.

Inadequate - not enough or good enough : insufficient. inadequate equipment. also :

not capable.

Risk - is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the
effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value (such as health,
well-being, wealth, property or the environment), often focusing on negative, undesirable
consequences.
Methodology – Research methodology is the specific procedures or techniques used to identify,
select, process, and analyze information about a topic. In a research paper, the methodology
section allows the reader to critically evaluate a study’s overall validity and reliability.

CHAPTER II

REVIEW RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Local Studies

2.2 Foreign Studies

CHAPTER III

Research Methodology