The Philippine

Health Situation
POVERTY REDUCTION AND EMPOWERMENT OF
THE POOR AND VULNERABLE

National Health Insurance Program (NHIP)

 Aims to protect all Filipinos, especially the poor, from the financial
burden of accessing/availing preventive and curative healthcare
services. It was establish to serve as the means to help people pay
for the health services; and prioritize and accelerate the provision of
health service to all Filipino, especially the segment of the
population who cannot afford these services
IMPROVE ACESS TO QUALITY HEALTH
FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Health Facility Enhancement Program
 Aims to improve access of all Filipinos to quality health facilities by
building new upgrading the capacity of existing public health
facilities such as barangay health stations, rural health units/ health
centers, LGU and DOH hospitals to help attain the public health
related Millennium development goals attend to traumatic injuries
and other types of emergencies and manage non communicable
diseases and their complications.
DOH Complete Treatment Pack

A medicines access program designed to reach the poorest of the

poor with complete treatment regimens for the top most common
diseases in the country
EXPANDED PROGRAM ON
IMMUNIZATION
To reduce mortality and morbidity among children 0-11 months against
the vaccine preventable diseases.
Specific goals include the following:
 Sustain the polio-free status of the country
 Eliminate measles
 Eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus and control hepatitis b
infection, diphtheria, pertussis, extra pulmonary tuberculosis,
meningitis/invasive bacterial disease and severe diarrhea caused
by the rotavirus.
TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAM

Aims to reduce the prevalence of tobacco use and decrease the

overall ill effects of tobacco through policies and legistation on
tobacco control.
MORTALITY
 Reported deaths in 2016 reached 582,183. The figure shows an
increase of 21,578 or 3.8 percent higher than the previous year’s
560,605 deaths, which is equivalent to a crude death rate (CDR) of
5.6, or about six (6) persons per thousand population. In 2016, an
average of 1,591 persons died daily. This translates to 66 deaths per
hour or one (1) per minute.
 The number of deaths from 2006 to 2016 showed an increasing
trend. The increase during the ten-year period is almost one-third,
or 32.0 percent, from 441,036 in 2006 to 582,183 in 2016. The reason
for the increase may have been due to a slight increase in
registration of deaths.
INFANT MORTALITY RATE

 Infant deaths are deaths that occurred before reaching age 1. At

the national level, 21,874 infant deaths were registered in 2016. Six
out of ten deaths were males (12,566 or 57.4%). The top three
regions that registered high infant deaths were CALABARZON (3,727
or 17.0%), NCR (3,687 or 16.9%) and Region III (2,480 or 11.3%).


 On the other hand, ARMM (209 or 1.0%), CAR (250 or 1.1%) and
Caraga (345 or 1.6%) had the least number of registered infant
deaths.
INFANT DEATH
MALE

More males deaths at early age than female deaths.

It was noted that more number of male death occurred at less than
one year old with 12,566 or 3.8% percent compared to female deaths
of only 9308 or 3.8% of the total. The same observation can be seen
across ages. This is an indication that women live longer than men.
MATERNAL DEATH

 Maternal is the death of a women while pregnant or within 42 days

of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of
the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the
pregnancy or its management but not from the accidental or
incidental causes. There were 1,483 registered maternal deaths in
the community in 2016.
Maternal deaths
Leading causes of maternal death
TOP 10 LEADING CAUSES
Both Sexes
All causes of death Total Percent
Ischemic heart diseases 74,134 12.7
Neoplasm 60,470 10.4
Pneumonia 57,809 9.9
Cerebrovascular 56,938 9.8
diseases
Hypertensive diseases 33,452 5.7
Diabetes Mellitus 33,295 5.7
Other heart diseases 28,641 4.9
Respiratory tuberculosis 24,462 4.2
Chronic lower respiratory 24,365 4.2
tract infections
Remainder of diseases of 19,759 3.4
the genitourinary system
Other causes of death 168,858 29.0
MALE

All causes of death 334,678 100.0

Ischemic heart diseases 44,472 13.3
Cerebrovascular 31,675 9.5
diseases
Neoplasm 29,516 8.8
Pneumonia 28,993 8.7
Hypertensive diseases 17,901 5.3
Respiratory tuberculosis 17,288 5.2
Chronic lower respiratory 17,049 5.1
tract infections
Diabetes Mellitus 16,384 4.9
Other heart diseases 14,992 4.5
Assault 13,662 4.1
Other causes of death 102,746 30.7
FEMALE
All causes of death 247,505 100.0
Neoplasm 30,954 12.5

Ischemic heart diseases 29,662 12.0

Pneumonia 28,816 11.6
Cerebrovascular 25,263 10.2
diseases
Diabetes Mellitus 16,911 6.8

Hypertensive diseases 15,551 6.3

Other heart diseases 13,649 5.5
Remainder of diseases of 7,981 3.2
the genitourinary system
Chronic lower respiratory 7,316 3.0
tract infections

Respiratory Tuberculosis 7,174 2.9

Other causes of death 64,228 26.0