Laws

• Philippines Commonwealth and Establishment of the Republic 

  • Manuel L. Quezon
  • Department of health and public welfare (31st may 1939)
  • Additional health facilities and expansion of sanitation and MCH services fell into disarray with the start of World War II
  • Time of Japanese War – increase in cases of tuberculosis, malaria, and malnutrition. 
• Executive order No. 94

  • Reorganizing the different executive departments, bureaus, offices, and agencies of the government of the republic of the philippines, making certain readjustments of personnel and allotment of funds in connection therewith, and for other purposes.
  • October 4, 1947
  • The DOH was established with supervision over the bureau of health, bureau of quarantine, bureau of hospitals and all local health offices in the country.
• Rural Health Act of 1954

  • Republic Act No. 1082
  • June 15, 1954
  • An act strengthening health and dental services in the rural areas, and providing funds therefore.
  • Convert prenatal hospitals to RHU/Rural Health Unit
  • Made to provide basic health care.
• Executive order No. 852 s 1983

  • Providing for more effective coordination between national development and security operations.
  • December 3, 1982
  • President Ferdinand Marcos (from DOH → Ministry of Health)
• Executive order No. 119 s. 1987

  • Reorganizing the ministry of health, its attached agencies and for other purposes.
  • After People’s Power
  • President Corazon Aquino (from Ministry of Health → DOH)
• Republic act No. 7160

  • An act providing for a local government code of 1991.
  • The “Local Government Code” 
  • October 10, 1991
  • Gives the LGU the authority of Health services.
• Republic act No. 7875

  • An act instituting a national health insurance program for all filipinos. And establishing the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation for the purpose. 
  • National Health Insurance ACrt of 1995 
  • January 21, 1995
• Health sector reform agenda (1999)

  • Aims to improve the way health care is delivered, regulated and financed through systemic reforms in public health, the hospital system, local health, health regulation and health financing.
• Executive order no. 102 s 1999

  • Redirecting the functions and operations of the department of health. 
  • President Joseph Ejercito Estrada
  • May 24, 1999 
  • Updates the function of DOH.
• Formula One for Health

  • Administrative Order No. 2005-0023
  • a strategic framework for health reforms formulated by DOH using four pillars (Service Delivery, Health Care Financing, Health Governance and Health Regulation) in attaining the National Objectives for Health and the Millennium Development Goals for Health.
  • Implemented on 2005 
  • Financing
  • Health Regulation
  • Service Delivery 
  • Good Government
• History of public health in the Philippines based on socio-political periods. 

  1. Pre-american occupation (up to 1989)
  2. American military government (1898-1907)
  3. Philippine assembly (1907-1916)
  4. The jones law(1916-1936)
  5. The commonwealth (1936-1941)
  6. Japanese occupation (1941-1945)
  7. Post world war II (1945-1972)
  8. Post EDSA revolution (1986 to present)
• Key hospitals during the Spanish-colonial period in the Philippines:

  • Hospital Del Santo Nombre de Jesus: first hospital in Cebu (1565)
  • Sitio del Real Hospital Militar de Manila (1571)
  • San Juan de Dios: treated the disabled, the abandoned, and the poor
  • San Lazaro Hospital: provided care for lepers in Baclaran/Pasay
• In the 1800s, the smallpox vaccine was introduced
• Public health measures during the Spanish-colonial period in the Philippines included addressing beri-beri and cholera
• Philippine Revolution and American Colonial Period

  • Bureau of public health was organized
  • …more hospitals, implemented public health measures to prevent the spread of disease, introduced formal medical education, and provided more medical benefits to filipinos
  • June 12, 1898