SECTOR

• Health system


  A functional network of healthcare providers, including public sector and privately run services, which range from traditional healers to the most technologically advanced hospitals
• Health system

  Organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health
• Healthcare sector


  The sector of the economy made up of companies that specialize in products and services related to health and medical care
• Different health sectors in the Philippines

  • Bureau of Health Devices and Technology (BHDT)
  • Bureau of International Health Cooperation
  • Food and Drugs Administration
  • Bureau of Local Health Development (BLHD)
  • Bureau of Quarantine and International Health Surveillance
  • National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC)
  • National Epidemiology Center (NEC)
  • National Center for Mental Health
  • Philippine National Aids Council
  • National Nutrition Council
  • Philippine Institute Of Traditional And Alternative Health Care (Pitahc)
• Bureau of Health Devices and Technology (BHDT)


  Created in 1999 to perform the same functions of the BFAD/FDA but for medical devices
• Functions of BHDT

  1. Develops plans, programs and strategies for regulating health and health-related devices and technology

  2. Conducts its own research on health technologies and medical devices, and advises the Secretary of the DOH on medical device policy

  3. Formulates rules, regulations and standards for licensing and accreditation of health-related devices and technology

  4. Conducts licensing and accreditation of health and health-related devices and technology
• Bureau of International Health Cooperation

  • Promotes and sustains international partnership through agreements and other instrumentalities
  • Enhances policies, plans, agreements and systems for international cooperation/partnership
  • Establishes effective systems and mechanisms for collaboration/coordination
  • Monitors Foreign Assisted Projects (FAPs) and Bilateral/Multilateral Agreements
• Food and Drug Administration

  • Formerly called the Bureau of Food and Drugs
  • Created under the Department of Health to license, monitor, and regulate the flow of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, and household hazardous waste in the Philippines
  • Responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation
• Bureau of Local Health Systems and Development (BLHSD)


  • Responsive, collaborative, sustainable, and resilient local health systems for all Filipino, especially the poor
  • The lead Bureau in the DOH in developing functional local health systems, especially for the marginalized and disadvantaged communities
• General functions of BLHSD

  1. Identify and assess priorities in local health systems development

  2. Develop policies, guidelines and standards on sustainable local health systems

  3. Ensure multi stakeholder participation in local health system development

  4. Monitor and evaluate functionality of local health system

  
• Divisions of BLHSD


  • Health Systems Development Division (HSDD)
  • Health Systems Monitoring and Evaluation Division (HSMED)

  
• Health Systems Development Division (HSDD)


  • Identify and assess priorities in local health systems development
  • Develop policies, guidelines and standards on sustainable local health systems
  • Ensure multi-stakeholder participation in local health system development
  • Monitor and evaluate functionality of local health system

  
• Health Systems Monitoring and Evaluation Division (HSMED)

  • Develop policies, plans and standards to build and enhance capacity for local health leadership and governance
  • Provide technical assistance to monitor and evaluate local health system performance
  • Promote best practices in local health systems development for wide-spread replication

  
• Bureau of Quarantine and International Health Surveillance

  • Formulates and enforces quarantine laws and regulations
  • Conducts surveillance and institutes measures to prevent the entry of diseases subject to International Health Regulations and other emerging and re-emerging diseases and health concerns from other countries that may impact on public health in the Philippines
  • Provides technical assistance and supervision, consultative and advisory services on health and sanitation programs and activities in international ports and airports and their immediate environs
  • Conducts medical examination on aliens and foreign based Filipinos for immigration purposes
  • Advises the Secretary and the Undersecretary of Health on matters pertaining to international health regulations and international health surveillance
• Divisions of Bureau of Quarantine and International Health Surveillance

  • International Health Surveillance Division
  • Special Services Division
  • Port and Airport Health Services Division
  • Administrative Division
• International Health Surveillance Division

  • Provides maximum security against the introduction and spread of diseases subject to the International Health Regulation (IHR) with minimum interference to traffic and trade
  • Develops an integrated approach for a more effective international health surveillance networks
  • Develops communication methods for wider and more effective delivery of critical public health information with international importance
• Special Services Division


  • Provides immunization laboratory services to travelers subject to the International Health Regulation (IHR)
  • Conducts health education seminars for stewards, food handlers and other clientele
  • Performs medical examination of foreigners admitted into the country
• Port and Airport Health Services Division

  • Promotes and supervises sanitation in ports and airports of entry to include the environs, eating establishment and catering points
  • Conducts operations for mosquito-an-arthropod borne diseases subject to the IHR
  • Manages carriers or vessels with rodent infestation
• Administrative Division


  Provides general administrative and logistics support services such as personnel,finance, communication, documentation, security and facility operation and maintenance services
• National Center for Disease Prevention and Control

  • Develop plans, policies, programs, projects and strategies for disease prevention and control health protection
  • Provides coordination, technical assistance, capability building, consultancy, and advisory services related to disease prevention and control and health protection
• Divisions of National Center for Disease Prevention and Control

  • Infectious Diseases for Elimination Division
  • Infectious Disease for Prevention and Control Division
  • Environmental-Related Diseases Division
  • Occupational Disease Division
  • Essential Non-Communicable Diseases Division
  • Lifestyle-Related Diseases Division
  • Women and Men's Health Development Division
  • Children's Health Development Division
• National Center for Mental Health (NCMH)


  • Established in 1925 through Public Works Act 3258, originally called the INSULAR PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL, later called the National Mental Hospital
  • Renamed NATIONAL CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH (NCMH) in 1986
  • Dedicated to delivering preventive, curative and rehabilitative mental health care services
• National Epidemiology Center (NEC)


  • Also known as Epidemiology Bureau
  • Develops and evaluates surveillance systems and other health information systems
  • Collects, analyzes and disseminates reliable and timely information on the health status
  • Investigates disease outbreaks and other threats to public health
  • Networks public health laboratories in support of epidemiological and surveillance activities
• Divisions of National Epidemiology Center

  • Applied Epidemiology Health Management Division
  • Public Health Surveillance Division
  • Survey, Monitoring & Evaluation Division
• Applied Epidemiology Health Management Division

  • Investigate and respond to epidemics and other urgent public health threats as the need arises
  • Develop and maintain field epidemiology training programs for public health workers
  • Develop, capture, filter, verify, assess, respond, disseminate and evaluate event-based surveillance systems
  • Collect and maintain resource materials on epidemiology, surveillance, management and monitoring and evaluation in public health
• Public Health Surveillance Division


  Undertake notifiable disease surveillance through Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response
• Survey, Monitoring & Evaluation Division

  • Provide statistical services to priority health programs of the DOH
  • Monitor non-behavioral risk factors priority non-communicable diseases through globally standardized survey
  • Monitor HIV and AIDS Registry and Integrated HIV Behavioral and Serologic Surveillance, size estimates and Most At-Risk Population
  • Provide program health indicators information
• National Nutrition Council


  • Formulate national food and nutrition policies and strategies and serve as the policy, coordinating and advisory body of food, nutrition and health concerns
  • Coordinate planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the national nutrition program
  • Coordinate the hunger mitigation and malnutrition prevention program to achieve relevant Millennium Development Goals
  • Strengthen competencies and capabilities of stakeholders through public education, capacity building and skills development
  • Coordinate the release of funds, loans, and grants from government organizations and nongovernmental organizations
  • Call on any department, bureau, office, agency and other instrumentalities of the government for assistance in the form of personnel, facilities and resources as the need arises
• Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC)

  • Created to advise the government on the development of policies to prevent and control HIV/AIDS
  • Composed of high-ranking government officials, the heads of nongovernmental organizations, members of the HIV/AIDS network, and a representative of an organization of people living with HIV
  • The first two committees created were the Committee on Policy Development and the Committee on Law and Ethics
  • The Committee on Law and Ethics has created an AIDS Health Rights Desk to provide free legal assistance to poor people whose health rights have been violated
• PHILIPPINE NATIONAL AIDS COUNCIL (PNAC)

  Created to advise the government on the development of policies to prevent and control HIV/AIDS
• AIDS


  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• HIV


  Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• PNAC is composed of

  • High-ranking government officials
  • Heads of nongovernmental organizations
  • Members of the HIV/AIDS network
  • Representative of an organization of people living with HIV
• Committees created by PNAC


  1. Committee on Policy Development (Developing a national prevention and control strategy)

  2. Committee on Law and Ethics (Promotes a supportive legal environment for people with HIV/AIDS and provides legal support)
• Committee on Law and Ethics

  • Created an AIDS Health Rights Desk to provide free legal assistance to poor people whose health rights have been violated
• A third committee is being organized to help disseminate accurate information on HIV/AIDS
• PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE (PITAHC)


  Functions to encourage research, promote and advocate the use of traditional and alternative health care, develop training courses, formulate standards and policies
• Health status indicator


  Measurement of the health status for a given population using indices like morbidity, mortality, and available health resources
• Different health indicators


  • Disease
  • Morbidity
  • Mortality

  
• Access to health care contributes to the trends in disease, morbidity and mortality and illustrates changes in status of the country