Midterm Part 6

• Early part of 19th century dominated by infectious diseases such as polio and yellow fever
• Health Commission in the Philippines


  Called Board of Health for the Philippine Islands, later replaced by the Bureau of Health and renamed as Department of Public Health and Welfare, eventually became DOH or Department of Health
• Dr. Jose Fabella


  The first secretary of DPHW and also known as "The Father of Public Health"
• Fr. Juan Clemente


  A Franciscan priest who organized the first hospital in the Philippines, San Juan de Dios Hospital
• University of Sto. Tomas


  First medical school in the Philippines
• Medicos Titulares


  Provincial health workers
• WHO or World Health Organization was established

  1948
• The Center for Disease and Prevention (CDC) was organized and created founded by Joseph Walter Mountin


  1950
• Discovery of penicillin and the development of polio vaccine by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin
• Countries around the world gathered in Alma Ata and came out with pioneering document called the Declaration of Alma-Ata on Primary Health Care


  1978
• Primary health care


  Essential healthcare based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of health reliance and self-determination
• UNICEF or United Nation International Children's Emergency Fund came up with what is known as GOBI strategy


  1982
• GOBI


  Growth monitoring, Oral Rehydration Therapy, Breastfeeding and Immunization
• GOBI-FFF


  GOBI + Family Planning, Food Supplementation and Female Literacy
• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)


  Caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), no current cure
• Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)


  A virus respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by SARS-CoV-1 and the first pandemic that hit world in 2003, no current cure
• Swine flu (H1N1 flu)


  A form of influenza which affects the pigs caused by influenza A virus in 1998, new strains of virus emerged as H3N2 and H1N2
• Avian flu (Bird flu)

  A disease caused by infection with avian (bird) influenza type A virus (1997), the strain of this virus is called A (H5N1) which hit the poultry
• Ebola virus disease (Ebola, EVD, Ebola hemorrhagic fever)


  A deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains most specifically Family Filoviridae and genus Ebolavirus, can be transmitted to Humans and non-human primates such as monkeys and chimpanzees