CPHM

• Public Health includes programs and activities directed at community level and will benefit everyone or individuals who are not currently under the care of a physician
• Risk Factor Evaluation includes programs and activities directed at individuals who are currently under the care of a physician who evaluates them for high-risk factors that can cause disease, educate them about good habits and screens them for appropriate conditions
• Health


  A status of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, regarded as a person's physical and psychological capacity to establish and maintain balance
• Aspects of Health


  • Physical Health
  • Mental Health
  • Social Health
• Health


  Successful defense of the host against forces tending to disturb body equilibrium
• Disease


  Failure of the body defense mechanism to cope with forces tending to disturb body equilibrium
• Primary Health Care (PHC)

  Essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford at every stage of development
• Levels of Health Care Facilities

  • Primary health care facilities (rural health units, sub-centers, chest clinics, malaria eradication units, schistosomiasis control units, puericulture centers, tuberculosis clinics, private clinics, clinics operated by large industrial firms, community hospitals, health centers)
  • Secondary health care facilities (non-departmentalized hospitals including emergency and regional hospitals)
  • Tertiary health care facilities (medical centers and large hospitals)
• Health Care Providers


  • Village or grassroot health workers (first contacts, socio-economic, curative and preventive)
  • Intermediate level health workers (first source, provide support, attend to health problems)
  • First line hospital personnel (establish close contact, backup health services)
• Primary Health Care


  Health care provided by center physicians, public health nurse, rural midwives, barangay health workers, traditional healers and others at the barangay health stations and rural health units
• Secondary Health Care


  Health care given by physicians with basic health training, usually in health facilities privately owned or government operated such as infirmaries, municipal and district hospitals and out-patient departments of provincial hospitals
• Tertiary Health Care


  Health care rendered by specialists in health facilities including medical centers as well as regional and provincial hospitals and specialized hospitals, for complicated cases and intensive care
• Divisions of Health Care Delivery System

  • Government
  • Mixed Sectors
  • Private Sectors
• Department of Health (DOH)

  The primary government agency in the field of health that runs the bulk of the government health facilities
• Responsibilities of the DOH

  • Ensuring access to basic health services to all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care
  • Formulation and development of national health policies, guidelines, standards and manual operation for health services and programs
  • Issuance of rules and regulations, licenses and accreditation
  • Promulgation of the national standards, goals, priorities and indicators
  • Development of special health programs and projects
• Mixed Sector Organizations


  • PTS- Philippine Tuberculosis society
  • PCS- Philippine Cancer Society
  • PNRC- Philippine National Red Cross
  • PMHA- Philippine Mental Health Association
  • PHA- Philippine Heart Association
• Health Care Financing Models

  • Socialized Medicine
  • Compulsory Health Insurance
  • Voluntary Health Insurance
  • Free Enterprise
• Botika ng Barangay refers to a drug outlet managed by the community to provide affordable essential medicines
• SECTORS


  • PTS- Philippine Tuberculosis society
  • PCS- Philippine Cancer Society
  • PNRC- Philippine National Red Cross
  • PMHA- Philippine Mental Health Association
  • PHA- Philippine Heart Association
• PRIVATE SECTORS


  • Socialized Medicine- funded by general taxation, emphasis on prevention
  • Compulsory Health Insurance- law requires people to subscribe to health insurance plan, usually government sponsored; covers only curative and rehabilitative medicine; preventive services provided by government agencies
  • Voluntary Health Insurance- government only encourages people to subscribe to health insurance
  • Free Enterprise- people have to take care of their medical needs
• Adolescent and Youth Health and Development Program (AYHDP)

  Ensures that all adolescent and youth have access to quality health care services
• Botika ng Barangay


  A drug outlet manage by a legitimate community organization (CO/non-government Organization (NGO) and/or Local Government Unit (LGU), specifically established in accordance with Administrative Order No. 144 s. 2004. Evaluated and selected by the Concerned Center for Health Development (CHD),approved by the National Drug-Policy-Pharmaceutical Management Unit (NDP-PMU 50), licensed by the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD)to sell, distribute, offer for sale and/or make available low-priced generic home remedies, over-the counter (OTC) drugs
• Promotion of Breast feeding program/ Mother and Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (MBFHI)

  Main strategy to transform all hospitals with maternity and new born services into facilities which fully protect, promote, support breast feeding and rooming-in practices
• Cancer Control Program


  An integrated approach utilizing primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in different regions of the country at both hospital and community levels. Six lead Cancers: (lung, breast, liver, cervix, oral cavity, colon and rectum)
• Diabetes Control Program


  Aims to address the serious chronic metabolic disease, associated with long term damage and failure or organs functions, especially the eyes, the kidneys, the nerves, the heart and blood vessels. Complications include blindness, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack, wounds that would not heal, impotence
• Dengue Control Program


  Prevention and control in endemic areas. Four O'clock Habit - MAJOR STRATEGY to eliminate the breeding places of Aedes aegypti
• Dental Health Program


  Comprehensive Dental Health program aims to improve the quality of life of the people and attainment of the highest possible oral health. Its objective is to prevent and control dental diseases and conditions through oral examination and prophylaxis; sodium fluoride mouth rinsing; supervise tooth brushing drill; fit and fissure sealant application; a traumatic restorative treatment
• Emerging Disease Control Program

  Identified of unknown infection which cause public health problems either locally or internationally
• Environmental Health


  Goals: Reduction of environmental and occupational related diseases, disabilities and deaths, health promotion, mitigation of hazards and risks in the environment and workplaces
• Expanded Program on Immunization

  DOH programs that has already been institutionalized and adopted by all LGUs in the region. Its objective is to reduce infant mortality and morbidity through decreasing the prevalence of six (6) immunizable diseases (TB, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and measles)
• Family Planning


  The DOH in partnership with LGUs, NGOs, the private sectors and communities ensures the availability of FP information and services to men and women. Objectives: To help couples, individuals achieve their desired family size within the context of responsible parenthood and improve their reproductive health
• Food and Waterborne Diseases Prevention and Control Program (FWBDPCP)

  The program focuses on Cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and other food borne emerging diseases (e.g. Paragonimus)
• Knock out Tigdas


  The Knock-out tigdas strategy to reduce the number of children at risk of getting measles
• Leprosy Control program


  Envisions eliminating Leprosy as a human disease by 2020 to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem
• Malaria Control Program


  58 of 80 provinces: Malaria Endemic, Population at risk: 12M, 22 provinces: maintain malaria-free* status, 2– 4 outbreaks per year, *malaria-free: absence of indigenous malaria case
• National Filariasis Elimination Program

  Mission: Universal access to quality health services, Program Objectives: To reduce the Prevalence Rate to <1/1000 population, To established the endemicity of municipalities at the end of two years, To perform Mass Treatment in established endemic municipalities for at least four years, To continue surveillance of established endemic areas five years after Mass treatment
• National Mental Health Program


  It aims at integrating mental health within the total health system initially within the DOH system local health system
• Newborn screening


  A simple procedure to find out if a baby has a congenital metabolic disorder that can lead to mental retardation and even death if left untreated. R.A. 9288 - The Newborn Screening Act of 2004
• Occupational Health Program


  Vision/Mission Statement: To promote and protect the health and well being of the working population, improved health, better working conditions and workers' environment
• Health Development Program for Older Persons

  The Program intends to promote and improve the quality of life of older persons through the provision of basic health services and the formulation of policies and guidelines pertaining to older persons