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The Department of Health ( DOH; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) is the executive department of the government of the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care, the regulation of all health services and products.
The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in the Philippines began in 1976 [1] through Presidential Decree No. 996 signed by President Ferdinand Marcos. [2] And, in 1986, made a response to the Universal Child Immunization goal. The four major strategies include: [3] sustaining high routine Full Immunized Child (FIC) coverage of at least 90% ...
On May 31, 1939, the Department of Health and Public Welfare was established through Commonwealth Act 430. By now, the Tydings-McDuffie Act had been ratified, and the Philippines was on its way to independence. Universal Health Care: 2019. Universal Health Care (UHC) was signed into law by President Duterte as the Republic Act No. 11223.
t. e. Dental Public Health ( DPH) is a para-clinical specialty of dentistry that deals with the prevention of oral disease and promotion of oral health. [1] [2] Dental public health is involved in the assessment of key dental health needs and coming up with effective solutions to improve the dental health of populations rather than individuals.
Barber-dentists. The practice of extracting teeth has been practiced in the Philippines before the islands became a colony of Spain. [1] Among the early Filipino to act as "dental practitioners" and "curers of toothaches" were barbers. Their crude and "queer methods" of pulling out teeth from patients involved the use of fingers and nail pliers.
The 2019–2021 polio outbreak in the Philippines was an epidemic. For the previous 19 years, the Philippines was free of any polio -related diseases. On September 14, 2019, the disease began to resurface through a positive test result done to a 3-year-old girl from Mindanao. After the confirmation of a second case from tests done on a 5-year ...
Herbosa was undersecretary at the Department of Health (DOH) from 2010 to 2015. He was involved in the formation of the Hospital Accreditation Commission, the modernization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center, as well as the promotion of public-private partnerships in the health sector of the Philippines. Secretary (2023–)
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation ( PhilHealth) was created in 1995 to implement universal health coverage in the Philippines. It is a tax-exempt, government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) of the Philippines, and is attached to the Department of Health. On August 4, 1969, Republic Act 6111 or the Philippine Medical Care Act ...