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• • Moderate drinking seems to be good for the heart and circulatory system, and probably protects against type 2 diabetes and gallstones

  Alcohol
• Social Environment

  Economic Environment

  Physical Environment

  Individual Characteristics

  Individual Behaviors

  Determinants of Health
• Unintentional and violence-related injuries take the lives of 4.4million people around the world each year


  Injury and Violence Prevention
• •  tend to occur in older adults and can usually be controlled but not cured

  Chronic Diseases
• Degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services

  Health Literacy
• Provides cognitive and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for physical activity

  Physical Education
• state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community

  Mental Health
• Includes activities and habits that encourage the development of total physical, mental, and spiritual fitness, and which reduces the risk of major illnesses.

  Healthy Lifestyles
• Critical part of health development. Better _________ is related to improved infant, child. and maternal health, stronger immune systems

  Nutrition
• Conscious, collective, and repetitive behaviors, which lead people to select, consume, and use certain foods or diets, in response to social and cultural influences.

  Eating Habits
• Aims to understand people -- how they develop, grow, and change throughout the years.

  Human Development
• infancy

  toddler

  childhood

  adolescence or teenage

  adulthood

  5 stages of human development
• Aims to reduce the risk of Filipinos being forced into poverty just because they can't pay their medical bills, while increasing access to quality health care for the poor and those living in remote areas.

  Universal Health Care Law R.A. 11223
• All Filipinos will now have access to a full range of health services - promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative services, all for free to a certain extent
• All Filipinos have been automatically enrolled in the National Health Insurance Program.
• Everyone will be enrolled with a primary care provider of their choices.
• Everyone will be entitled to an essential health benefit package, which will include medicines, diagnostic tests, and primary care.
• Not everything will be for free, but PhilHealth will continue to cover basic services and basic accommodations.
• In case a patient might need to spend for care on top of basic services, the DOH will regulate this co-payment to ensure one will always know what to expect in terms of finances.
• PhilHealth will become the national purchaser of health goods and services, which they means they will be in charge of paying for medical services given to Filipinos.
• There will also be structural changes. Provinces, rather than municipalities, will be in charge of overseeing health services.
• The UHC Law has created the Health Technology and Assessment Council, a group of health experts who keep an eye on the latest developments in health, from technology to medicines and vaccines to health-related political issues