I.

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

The Philippines 2022

 There are a total of 114,189,499 Filipinos.

 There are 7,487 daily average live births.
 Future Population according to Philippine Information Agency:
o 1,803,886 is the projected increase in Philippine population in 2023.
o 115,901,688 in the beginning of 2024.
o Births will exceed the number of deaths by 1,969,328.
o The population of the Philippines will be increasing by 4,942 persons daily in 2023.

A. Health System

 Refers to all institutions, people, and action whose primary purpose is to improve health (WHO, 2000).

B. Objectives of Health System

1. Improving people’s health and well-being.

2. Responding to people’s expectation.
3. Providing protection against the costs of ill health.

C. Primary Care / Healthcare

 Primary Care
 “Front line” or “First Contact”
 Person centered
 Comprehensive in scope
 Not limited to illness episodes or by organ system or disease process involved

 Primary Healthcare
 A whole-of-society approach to health that aims at ensuring the highest possible level of
health and well-being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people’s needs and as
early as possible along the continuum from health promotion and disease prevention to
treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, and as close as feasible to people’s everyday
environment (WHO and UNICEF. A vision for primary health care in the 21st century:
Towards UHC and the SDGs, 2018).
 Operates in local community to address health problems.
 Wider population focus.

D. Importance of Primary Health Care

1. Provides the “programmatic engine” for Universal Health Care (UHC), the health-related Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and health security.
  Equitable, cost-effective, and efficient approach to enhance people’s physical and mental
health, as well as social being.
 Essential and affordable care that is accessible to everyone in the community.

2. Make health systems more resilient to situations in crisis, more proactive in detecting early signs of
epidemics and more prepared to act early in response to surges in demand for services.

E. Declarations of Primary Health Care

1. Declaration of Alma-ata (1978)

 Goal: Health for all through primary health care.
 Health, which is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity, is a fundamental human right.
 Gross inequality in the health status of the people-world concern.
 Cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage.
 Can be attained through a fuller and better use of the world’s resources.

2. Declaration of Astana (2018)

 Critical role of Primary Health Care and aims to refocus efforts on primary health care to
ensure that everyone, everywhere is able to enjoy the highest possible attainable standard of
health.
 Renewed political commitment to primary health care from governments, NGO’s, professional
organizations, academia and global health, and development organizations.
 Commemorate and reflect on Declaration of Alma-ata.

F. Health Care Delivery System

 Network of health facilities and personnel which carries out the task of rendering health care to the
people.