WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF THE URBAN HEALTH SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT (UHSD)

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

The components of the Urban Health System Development are

  Programs/Strategies

1. Healthy Cities Initiative (HCI).

2. Environmentally Sustainable and Healthy Urban Transport (ESHUT).

3. Reaching Every Depressed (RED) Barangay.

 B.Planning Tools and Framework

1. Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART).

2. City-Wide Investment Planning for Health (CIPH).

 Capacity Building

1.  Short Course on Urban Health Equity (SCUHE).

WHAT ARE THE KEY COMPONENTS OF URBAN

HEART?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

The key components of Urban HEART are:

1. Intersectoral Technical Working Group (TWG)

2. Data Collection
3. Data Assessment
4. Response

WHAT DOES EQUITY IN HEALTH MEAN?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

It implies that ideally, everyone could attain their full health potential and that no one should be
disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other socially determined
circumstance.

WHAT IS CITY-WIDE INVESTMENT PLANNING FOR HEALTH (CIPH)?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

City-wide Investment Planning for Health (CIPH) is a tool that provides a framework for the development
of a medium-term public investment plan in health for cities. It is undertaken by the City Health Office
particularly of Highly Urbanized Cities (HUCs) in coordination with other local health partners and key
stakeholders.  It serves as a guide for LGU action and DOH support to the LG

WHAT IS HEALTHY CITIES INITIATIVE (HCI)?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

Healthy Cities Initiative (HCI) is an approach that continually creates and improves physical and social
environments to address social determinants of health and improve health of urban dwellers.

WHAT IS REACHING EVERY DEPRESSED (RED) BARANGAY?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

Reaching Every Depressed (RED) Barangay is a strategy that targets depressed communities in the
delivery of special health services in order to reach the vulnerable groups and hidden slums.

WHAT IS SHORT COURSE ON URBAN HEALTH EQUITY (SCUHE)?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

Short Course on Urban Health Equity (SCUHE) is a 6-month course that aims to improve the knowledge,
practice and skills of health practitioners, policy and decision-makers at the national, regional and city
levels to identify and address urban  health inequities and challenges, particularly in relation to social
determinants of health.

WHAT IS URBAN HEALTH EQUITY ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE TOOL (URBAN HEART)?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) is a tool that measures performance
in poor or vulnerable populations across health and socio-cultural indicators.  It is used in situational
assessment and monitoring for planning purposes in cities, in tandem with the LGU Scorecard.

WHAT IS A HIGHLY URBANIZED CITY (HUC)?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

A city with: (1) a minimum population of 200,000 inhabitants, as certified by the National Statistics
Office; and (2) the latest annual income of at least 50 million pesos based on 1991 constant prices, as
certified by the city treasurer.

WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY URBAN TRANSPORT (ESHUT) INITIATIVE?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

Any initiative that pertains to the development or enhancement of existing projects to improve the
policy, design and practice of an urban transport system (e.g., decreasing air and noise pollution and
greenhouse gas emission from motor vehicles, pedestrian footpaths, bicycle lane) and lead to
improvement of health and safety of urban population.

WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY URBAN TRANSPORT (ESHUT) INITIATIVE?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

Any initiative that pertains to the development or enhancement of existing projects to improve the
policy, design and practice of an urban transport system (e.g., decreasing air and noise pollution and
greenhouse gas emission from motor vehicles, pedestrian footpaths, bicycle lane) and lead to
improvement of health and safety of urban population

WHAT IS HEALTHY URBANIZATION?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

Healthy urbanization is the desired direction of urban health systems development that aims to protect
and promote public health rather than threaten or erode health of individuals and communities in urban
areas.

WHAT IS THE DOH APPROACH TO URBAN HEALTH SYSTEMS?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

The Urban Health Systems Development framework specifies the DOH approach to urban health
systems by putting emphasis on the management of social determinants of health in urban settings with
focused application on urban poor populations particularly those living in slum
communities/settlements in order to reduce health inequities.

WHAT IS THE TIME FRAME OF THE CIPH?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

The CIPH usually covers a period of 3-5 years.

WHO ARE TARGET PARTICIPANTS OF SCUHE?

Name of Office: BUREAU OF LOCAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT (BLHD)

The following are the target participants of SCUHE:

1. City Health Officer

2. City Health Office Technical Staff

3. City Planning and Development Officer

4. City Social Welfare/Budget/Urban Development

5. Technical staff of government agencies