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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 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 ...
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% ...
Department of Health. The COVID-19 vaccination program in the Philippines was a mass immunization campaign against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in response to the pandemic in the country. The vaccination program was initiated by the Duterte ...
www .nnc .gov .ph. National Nutrition Council, abbreviated as NNC, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Health responsible for creating a conducive policy environment for national and local nutrition planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance using state-of the art technology and approaches.
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The Philippines has a National Mental Health Program or Mental Health Policy (Administrative Order #8 s.2001) signed by then-secretary of the Department of Health, Manuel Dayrit. [33] This policy aims to promote a better quality of mental health care in the country, to reduce the burden of mental illness, and to protect the rights of people ...
The Department of Public Instruction, one of the four executive departments of the government, was in charge of the Philippine Health Service. The Department of Public Instruction was managed by Dr. Victor Heiser, during whose term the Philippine General Hospital was put up. The Filipinization of Health Services started when Dr. Vicente de ...