DOH Agencies

• Department of Health (DOH)

  Also known as Kagawaran ng Kalusugan
• DOH

  • Responsible for the standards and mandates that are related to health e.g. FDA, POPCOM, PHILHEALTH
  • Follows the standards from the World Health Organization to provide standards in the country
• Three major roles of DOH in the health sector

  • Leadership in health - national policy and regulatory institution
  • Enabler and capacity builder - innovates new strategies in health, monitors health policies, plans, and programs, ensures highest achievable standards of policy health care, quality promotions, and quality health protection
  • Administrator of specific services - manage selected nation and sub-national health facilities and hospitals, administer direct services for emerging health concerns, provide emergency responses in different disasters and epidemics
• Values of DOH


  • Integrity - upholding truth, pursuing honesty, accountability, and consistency
  • Excellence - fostering innovation, effectiveness and efficiency, pro-action, dynamism, and openness to change
  • Compassion and respect for human dignity - working with sympathy and benevolence for people in need
  • Commitment - achieve vision for health and development of future generations
  • Professionalism - performing functions in accordance with highest ethical standards, principles of accountability, and full responsibility
  • Teamwork - working together with a result-oriented mindset
  • Stewardship of the health of the people - pursuing sustainable development and care for the environment
• DOH's functional management team

  • Medicos Titulares (foreign medical doctors of Spanish era)
  • Department of Public Works, Education, and Hygiene (together with DOH)
  • Board of Health for the City of Manila (separate organization)
  • Insular Board of Health to Bureau of Health to District Health Officers
  • Philippine Health Service to Health and Public Welfare to Department of Health and Public Welfare
  • Department of Health (current name used since 1947)
• Five major functions of DOH

  • Ensure equal access to basic health services
  • Ensure formulation of national policies for proper division of labor and proper coordination of operations among the government agency jurisdictions
  • Ensure a minimum level of implementation nationwide of services regarded as public health goods
  • Plan and establish arrangements for the public health systems to achieve economies of scale
  • Maintain a medium of regulations and standards to protect consumers and guide providers
• Basic health services under OPHS (Office of Public Health and Science) of DOH

  • Education regarding Health
  • Local Endemic Diseases
  • Expanded Program on Immunization
  • Maternal & Child Health Services
  • Essential drugs and Herbal plants
  • Nutritional Health Services (PD 491: Creation of Nutrition Council of the Phils.)
  • Treatment of Communicable & Non communicable Diseases
  • Sanitation of the environment (PD 856: Sanitary Code of the Philippines)
  • Dental Health Promotion
  • Access to and use of hospitals as Centers of Wellness
  • Mental Health Promotion
• Principles to attain the vision of DOH

  • Equity: equal health services for all-no discrimination
  • Quality: DOH is after the quality of service not the quantity
  • Accessibility: DOH utilizes strategies for delivery of health services
• Attached agencies of Department of Health

  • Commission on Population
  • National Nutrition Council
  • Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)
  • Philippine Institute for Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC)
  • Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC)
• Members of the PHW's (Primary Health Workers)

  • Medical Officers (Leader of them all)
  • Public Health Nurse
  • Rural Health Midwife's or Public Health Midwife
  • Dentist
  • Nutritionist AKA Dietary Technician
  • Medical Technologies
  • Pharmacist
  • Rural Sanitary Inspector
• Mnemonic for 8 commonly available generic medicines in Botika sa Baryo and Botika sa Health Center


  • Cotrimoxazole
  • Amoxicillin
  • Rifampicin (RIF)
  • Isoniazid (INH)
  • Pyrazinamized (PZA)
  • Paracetamol
  • Oresol
  • Nifedipine

  
• Sampung Halamang Gamot (10 Medicinal Plants)

  • Sambong
  • Akapulko
  • Niyog-niyogan
  • Tsaang Gubat
  • Ampalaya
  • Lagundi
  • Ulasimang bato
  • Bawang
  • Bayabas
  • Yerba Buena