Lachica, Mark Alvin ComDev

BSN034 Prof. M. Domingo

Doctor to the Barrios

I. Summary

Doctor to the barrios is a book pride of Filipinos that is bent by our

former DOH secretary Dr. Juan Flavier who expanded the advancement
of health care delivery most especially and specifically in rural areas.
Dr. Flavier with his health care team had stayed with those people
living in countryside to scrutinize and considering the inhibiting factor
that limits the people to attain a favorable health. The focal point of
the book narrated by Dr. Flavier was the common problem encountered
by the folks in the barrio together with some rural places here in the
Philippines and usual obstructions for health are; low wages, lack of
facilities and medical supply, means on how to elevate the health
problems of the people as well as how a health worker would respond
to it and the uncomfortable lodgings at the municipal clinic or health
sttions. The interaction between the health care team and the folks,
the health cultures like superstitious beliefs which barrios people had
already adapted to and the better health orientation for them to follow.

The unfolding of the Philippine health setting through his book

“Doctor to the Barrios” which was done by Dr. Juan Flavier along with
Philippine Rural Reconstitution Movement have created awareness and
opened on the current condition health problem where folks living in
rural area are suffering and facing, furthermore together with all the
health care provider he generated guiding principles educed from this
phrase (“Go to the people, live among them, learn from them, serve
them, plan with them, start with what they know, build on what they
have, not piecemeal but integrated approach, not showcase but
pattern, not relief but release, mass education through mass
participation, learn by doing, teach by showing”).

II. Physical Description of the Book

The common physical features of book that anyone would find time
and interest to read it were all compacted to the book made by Dr.
Juan Flavier though it focuses on how to improve community
development the fragments used in the book can thoroughly catch the
attention of the readers whether they are health practitioners or not
and others who are aspiring to become one (health care provider). The
book is entirely a good detail of Dr. Flavier’s own experiences that
would not depart the readers to tedious manner. Plain words were used
in the book to explicit the idea more than enough to define the
development of the community which is precisely realistic.
III. Analysis

Substantive Community Problem

Syntactically the entity of the book converged around the scheme of

community problems specifically in rural areas. The book also
represents the needs and attention of the community; health care
delivery system, health regulation and yield production for folk’s
primary income.
The book had featured, created tactics and strategies in making better
and organizing a community mainly one of the prime notion in doing
so, is that program must be implemented thus, Doc. Flavier had listed
some of the significant point details needed to pursue the project like;
simplicity which lay at somebody’s understanding, practicability means
essential necessity for health and living of people in the community
hence it follows with the economical aspects relating to the capacity of
the people to implement the plan.