Filipinization of

the Health Care

System
 Filipinization of the Health Care
System
• The election of Democratic candidate Woodrow
Wilson in 1912 as US President signaled a change
in policy towards the Philippines, a change that
was effected by Francis Harrison who served as
Governor-General to the islands for eight years.
 Filipinization of the Health Care
System
• The Americans built the University of the
PhilippinesCollege of Medicine and Surgery in
1905 using the blueprint of the best medical
school at that time, the Johns Hopkins University
 The administration of
Leonard Wood
● The eight years of democratic
administration was ended in 1921 with the
ascension of Republican Warren Harding to
the presidency of the United state. Among
immediately an investigation evaluation of
the conditions in the Philippines under the
policies of the democratic administration
was conducted.
The Administration of Theodore
Roosevelt
The Philippine Common Wealth
 The Japanese Occupation
● The philippines found itself between the wars of
America and Japan
● the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic was
inaugurated on October 1943
● Claro M. Recto serves as commissioner of
Education, Health and Public welfare
● Dr. Eusebio Aguilar served as Director of Health
 Liberation and Reconstruction
(1945-1946)
● General Douglas MacArthur left Corregidor with a promise
to return, and on February 3, 1945, after a series of battles
fought over land and sea, the General made good on his vow
and liberated Manila.

● On February 27, 1945, under the leadership of President

Sergio Osmeña, the Commonwealth government was
reconstituted.

● General Basilio J. Valdez was appointed as Secretary of

Health and Public Welfare, Secretary of National Defense
and Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army. And later on Dr.
Jose C. Locsin as Acting Secretary of Health and Public