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Health care in the Philippines extends as far back as the 15th century. Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, life and by extension health care, was centered around the animate and inanimate world. Traditional Filipino medicinal herbs were used for a wide variety of ailments. Anonas leaves were applied to the stomach for indigestion.
Location. Philippines. Likhaan is a non-government organization (NGO) engaged in providing direct health care services to women in marginalized communities. [2][3] Dr. Junice Melgar is its director and one of its co-founders. [4] These services also allow Likhaan an entry point to organizing grassroots women in health care advocacy.
Primary health care. Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [1] Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention ...
Health problems in the Philippines. The Philippines faces a large burden of disease: Proportional Death due to NCDs. The main Non-Communicable Diseases are Diabetes, Heart disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Chronic diseases that affect the airways and lungs. While these diseases affect different parts of the body in different ways, they often share ...
Below we’ll explore 10 different types of health clinics, the services they provide, and how to find affordable care. 1. Primary care clinics. One of the most popular types of clinics are those ...
Botswana established a free healthcare system that operates a system of public medical centers, with 98% of health facilities in the country run by the government. [citation needed] All citizens are entitled to be treated in taxpayer funded facilities, though a nominal fee of ~70 BWP (~US$6.60) is typically charged for public health services except for sexual reproductive health services and ...
Primary care is meant to be your main source for healthcare, one in which you have an ongoing partnership with your healthcare provider in the larger context of your community. Primary care is ...
There are three tiers in the health care system: primary, secondary, and tertiary. The primary health care tier serves as a patient's first point of contact with a health professional who can provide outpatient medical care. [4] [5] If the general practitioner cannot address the problem of the patient, then the patient is referred to a specialist.