National Health Situation

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HEALTH INDICES

Basic Health Indicators

• Nutrition
• Disease Patterns
• Leading Causes of Morbidity
• Leading Causes of Mortality
• Other Indicators
• Infant Mortality Rate
• Maternal Mortality Rate
• Life Expectancy at Birth
• Median Age
• Crude Birth Rates and Crude Death Rates

Health Care Delivery System

• the totality of all policies, equipments, products, human resources and services which address the health needs, problems, and concerns of the people
• it is a large, complex, multi-level and multi-disciplinary

Categories:

According to Increasing Complexity of the Services Provided		According to the Type of Service
Type	Service	Type	Service
Primary	Health Promotion, Preventive Care, Continuing Care for Common Health Problems, Attention to Psychological and Social Care, Referrals	Health Promotion and Illness Prevention	Information Dissemination
Secondary	Surgery, Medical Services by Specialists	Diagnosis and Treatment	Screening
Tertiary	Advanced, Specialized, Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Care	Rehabilitation	PT/OT

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The Health Sector

• Department of Health
• Vision: Health for all by Year 2000 and Health in the Hands of the People by 2020
• Mission: In partnership with the people, provide equity, quality and access to health care especially the marginalized
• 5 Major Functions:
1. Ensure equal access to basic health services
2. Ensure formulation of national policies for proper division of labor and proper coordination of operations among the government agency jurisdictions
3. Ensure a minimum level of implementation nationwide of services regarded as public health goods
4. Plan and establish arrangements for the public health systems to achieve economies of scale
5. Maintain a medium of regulations and standards to protect consumers and guide providers
• Local Government Units
• Private Sector
• Composed of both commercial and business organizations, non-business organizations

Commercial/Business	Non-Commercial
Proof oriented	Orientation to social development, relief and rehabilitation, community organizing
Manufacturing companies Advertising agencies Private practitioners Private institutions	Socio-civic groups Religious organizations/foundations

• NGOs: assumes the following roles -
• Policy and Legislative Advocates
• Organizers, Human Rights Advocates
• Research and Documentation
• Health Resource Development Personnel
• Relief and Disaster Management
• Networking