HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM IN THE PHILIPPINES

Public healthcare in the Philippines is administered by Philhealth, a government owned corporation. \

Phil health subsidizes a variety of treatments including inpatient care and non-emergency surgeries,
although it does not cover all medical treatments and costs.

Health Facility (DOH AO-0012A)

Categories:
A. Public health services.
B. Private health facilities.

Types of Health Facility

1. hospitals,
2. clinics,
3. outpatient care centers, 4. specialized care centers, such as birthing centers and psychiatric care
centers.

CLASSIFICATION OF HEALTH FACILITIES

Level-1- surgery room; isolation, surgical and maternity facilities; dental clinics; secondary clinical
laboratory; blood station; first level X-ray; and a pharmacy. (under new DOH reclassification)

Level II (2015) • Increased medical capability and limited inpatient bed space. • Includes basic primary
care, optometry, combat operational. stress control and mental health, dental, laboratory, surgical (when
augmented) and X-ray capability.

A Level III Trauma Center has demonstrated an ability to provide prompt assessment, resuscitation,
surgery, intensive care and stabilization of injured patients and emergency operations. ... Has
developed transfer agreements for patients requiring more comprehensive care at a Level I or Level II
Trauma Center.

General hospitals are classified into three levels:

Level 1 with minimum healthcare services,
Level 2 that offer extra facilities like intensive care unit and specialist doctors, and
Level 3 hospitals that have training programs for doctors, rehabilitation, and dialysis units, among others

levels of healthcare facilities in the Philippines:

1. PRIMARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

2. SECONDARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
3. TERTIARY LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

slogan of the Philippine health agenda

The Philippine Health Agenda is both a strategic vision for the health sector and a compassionate and
inclusive plan exemplified by DOH's slogan “All For Health Towards Health For All.”

3 guarantees of the PHA

The PHA aims to:

1. ensure the best health outcomes for all, without socio-economic, ethnic, gender, and geographic
disparities;
2. promote health and deliver healthcare through means that respect, value, and empower clients and
patients as they interact with the health system; and
3. protect all families, especially the vulnerable ones.

The 8 Millennium Development Goals

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

2. Achieve universal primary education.
3. Promote gender equality and empower women.
. Reduce child mortality.
5. Improve maternal health.
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
7. Ensure environmental sustainability.
8. Develop A Global Partnership For Development
Public Health- is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.

Community health- is focused on all the people within the geographical areas and not on a group of
people with the same shared characteristics, like age or diagnosis

Public health nursing is "the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using
knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences “ (ANA. 2013).

Community Health Nursing is a blend or synthesis of nursing practice with public health using primary
health care as the tool in the delivery of health services. (Castro 2012)

Part of the paramedical and medical interventions/ approach which is concerned of the health of
the population
AIMS:
1. Health Promotion
2. Disease Prevention
3. Management of factors affecting health

Clinician- health care provider, takes care of the sick at home or in the RHU.

Health educator- aims toward health promotion and illness prevention through dissemination of correct
information.

Facilitator- establish multi-sectoral linkage by referral system.

Supervisor- monitors and supervices the performance of BHS staff.

Health advocator- speaks and acts of behalf of the client.

Collaborator- works with other health team members

The main sub-fields of public health include :

Environmental Health.
Community Health. ...
Epidemiology. ...
Global Health. ...
Health Policy and management..
Education.

5 (FIVE) PILLARS OF PUBLIC HEALTH:

Behavioral science/health education.

Biostatistics.(the application of statistical principles to questions and problems in medicine, public

health or biology. ... The discipline of biostatistics provides tools and techniques for collecting data and
then summarizing, analyzing, and interpreting it)

Environmental health.

Epidemiology.(study of determinants and distribution of diseases and disorders w/n group of people)

Health services administration.

three different strands of the '3Ps’ of Public health :

health promotion,
prevention of ill health and
health protection.