FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM

Maternal mortality, unplanned pregnancies, and unsafe abortions are among the effects of poor family
planning. Moreover, modern families are failing to sustain the adequate needs of their growing number
of children, which is also an outcome of poor family planning and low use of contraception. Hence, the
National Family Planning Program aims to ensure every Filipino has a universal access to correct
information, medically safe, legal, non-abortifacient, effective, and culturally acceptable modern family
planning (FP) methods. Specifically, this program aims to increase the modern contraceptive prevalence
rate (mCPR) to 30% from 25% in 2017.

NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD PROGRAM

The National Safe Motherhood Program is primarily concerned with the health and well-being of women
during pregnancy. It also prioritizes adolescent pregnancy prevention and meeting women's unmet
needs for family planning contraception until 2030. This program aims to give Filipino women access to
high-quality healthcare in order to have a safer pregnancy and delivery. It seeks to improve the health
and well-being of Filipino mothers. This program also emphasizes a healthy Filipino family, wherein the
mother is as healthy as the entire family.

PhilHealth Benefit Package

 Maternity Care Benefit Package

 Newborn Care Benefit Package

Trainings

 Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care for Doctors and Nurses
 Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care for Midwives
 Maternal Death Surveillance and Response

Implementation Support Materials

 Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum and Newborn Care (PCPNC) Manual

 BEmONC Module for Midwives
 Maternal Death Reporting and Review System: A Guide to LGU Users

UNANG YAKAP (ESSENTIAL NEWBORN CARE: PROTOCOL FOR NEW LIFE)

Unang Yakap: Essential Newborn Care (ENC)

Many initiatives, globally and locally, help save lives of pregnant women and children. Essential
Newborn Care (ENC) is one. ENC is a simple cost-effective newborn care intervention that can improve
neonatal as well as maternal care. IT is an evidence-based intervention that emphasizes a core
sequence of actions, performed methodically (step -by-step); is organized so that essential time bound
interventions are not interrupted; and fills a gap for a package of bundled interventions in a guideline
format.

Newborn Screening Act of 2004, (Republic Act 9288)

It illustrates a procedure to detect a genetic and metabolic disorder in newborns that may lead to
mental retardation and even death if left untreated. In many countries, newborn screening has been a
mechanism that protects babies from health risks.

NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM

Hearing loss is known to be one of the most common disabilities among newborns. Prevalence studies
worldwide revealed that approximately 1-4 infants per 1,000 live births are affected. A study conducted
in a rural population in Bulacan in 2004 also revealed that 1 per 724 babies are born with bilateral
severe to profound hearing loss. Thus, 0.14% or 8 of the babies born daily are estimated to have
profound deafness in our country alone. Republic Act 9709, or the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
and Intervention Act of 2008 (UNHS), establishes a program whose primary thrust is for the prevention,
early diagnosis, and early intervention of hearing loss through requiring all newborns to have access to
hearing screening. This program helps facilitate the early detection of hearing loss experienced by the
0.14% of newborn babies in the whole country.

GARANTISADONG PAMBATA
Goal : Achievement of better health outcomes, sustained health financing and responsive health system
by ensuring that all Filipinos, esp. the disadvantaged group (lowest 2 income quintiles) have equitable
access to affordable health care

Universal Health Care Strategies:

 Financial risk protection.

 Improved access to quality hospitals and facilities
 Attainment of health-related MDGs by:
 Deploy CHTs to actively assist families in assessing and acting on their health needs
 Utilize life cycle approach in providing needed services: FP, ANC, FBD, ENC, IPP, GP for 0-14
years old
 Aggressive promotion of healthy lifestyle change
 Harness strengths of inter-agency and intersectoral cooperation with DepEd, DSWD and DILG

EXPANDED GARANTISADONG PAMBATA

Comprehensive and integrated package of services and communication on health, nutrition and
environment for children available every day at various settings such as home, school, health facilities
and communities by government and non-government organizations, private sectors and civic groups.

Objectives: Contribute to the reduction of infant and child morbidity and mortality towards the
attainment of MDG 1 and 4. Ensure that all Filipino children, especially the disadvantaged group (GIDA),
have equitable access to affordable health, nutrition and environment care.

IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM
The National Immunization Program, which was then known as Expanded Program for Immunization,
was launched by the Philippine government on July 12, 1976 with the assistance of World Health
Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to ensure that infants/children
and mothers have access to routinely recommended infant/childhood vaccines. This program primarily
aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality among children against the most common vaccine-
preventable diseases (VPDs) which includes tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis
and measles. To date, the Expanded Program on Immunization provides safe and effective vaccines
against VPDs for newborns, infants, older children, pregnant, and senior citizens.

INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING PROGRAM

The first two years are critical for the development and growth of infants and young children. This is the
time when adequate nourishment, particularly from breast milk, is needed to create strong and lifelong
health foundations as the body significantly develops during these years. Hence, this program aims to
provide Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) skills and training to be taught to mothers especially in the
critical years of their infant and young children. This includes significantly increasing the prevalence of
breastfeeding, along with other feeding skills to ensure proper nutrition for their children.

INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS PROGRAM

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is a strategy for reducing the mortality and
morbidity associated with the major causes of childhood illness. The World Health Organization (WHO)
and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) started to develop the IMCI strategy in 1992, and
today more than 100 countries worldwide have adopted it. This strategy primarily aims to reduce death,
illness and disability, and to promote improved growth and development among children under 5 years
of age. It includes both preventive and curative elements that are implemented by families and
communities, as well as health facilities.

EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Early childhood refers to the foundational stage of child development. It is characterized by immense
development in physical-motor, cognitive, language, and socio-emotional realms from a mother’s
pregnancy through to the age of 3 of the child. These developmental effects last the rest of childhood,
and on into adolescence and adulthood. The Early Childhood Care Development (ECCD) system is a
comprehensive, integrated and multi-sectoral approach centered on providing children with nurturing
care. This program facilitates access to health services from pregnancy to 35 months old to promote the
physical growth and development of the child. It also includes providing responsive caregiving,
opportunities for early learning, and child’s safety and security to enhance holistic development of
young children.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN PROTECTION PROGRAM

The Women and Children Protection Program (WCPP) provides technical and management support to
ensure that Women and Children Protection Units (WCPUs) are established and operational as
mandated under Section 40 of Republic Act 9262. This program aims to provide medical assistance to
violence against women and their children (VAWC) survivors and increase cases appropriately managed
in health facilities. To achieve this, the WCPP focuses on the primary prevention and response through
establishing and ensuring the functionality of WCPUs, strengthening management structures, capability
building of public health workers and hospital staff, health promotion, and advocacy.
The Philippine Milk Code of 1986 or EO 51
Regulates the marketing of infant milk formula, other milk products, foods and beverages, as well as
feeding bottles and teats. ... It covers products marketed as "complete or partial substitute" to breast
milk, regardless of the age of the child.

The Republic Act 10028 or the Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act was signed
to support, protect and encourage women who are breastfeeding working moms. Through the law,
there were provisions which requires workplaces to implement certain regulations.

MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAM

The high prevalence of malnutrition is a significant problem that the country still faces. Micronutrient
deficiencies, which is the primary cause of malnutrition, are known to cause intergenerational
consequences especially to young children. Factors such as maternal nutrition and access to healthcare
before, during, and after pregnancy critically affect the growth and development of their children.
Moreover, the first years of their infants are crucial in creating strong health foundations. Hence, this
program aims to provide supplementation and nutrition programs for pregnant mothers, infants, and
children to reduce the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies below public health significance.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE PHILIPPINE FOOD FORTIFICATION PROGRAM AND

FOR OTHER PURPOSE (REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8976)
This Act shall be known as the "Philippine Food Fortification Act of 2000”. The Constitution provides that
the State shall protect and promote the right of health of the people and instill health consciousness
among them. State recognizes that nutritional deficiency problems in the Philippines, based on nutrition
surveys, include deficiency in energy, iron, vitamin A, iodine, thiamine and riboflavin. To a minor extent,
the Filipino diet is also deficient in ascorbic acid, calcium and folate. The State recognizes that food
fortification is vital where there is a demonstrated need to increase the intake of an essential nutrient by
one or more population groups, as manifested in dietary, biochemical or clinical evidences of deficiency.
Food fortification is considered important in the promotion of optimal health and to compensate for the
loss of nutrients due to processing and/or storage of food. Food fortification, therefore, shall carried out
to compensate for the inadequacies in Filipino diet, based on present-day needs as measured using the
most recent Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)