HIS Q1

Responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services to all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care and regulation of providers of health goods and services.

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Department of Health

Primary roles are to direct international health within the UN’s system and lead partners in global health responses

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World Health Organization

This strategy in Primary Health Care (PHC) encourages the use of locally available resources and income-generating projects for community health improvement

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Self-Reliance

Refers to having a disease or a symptom of disease, or to the amount of disease within a population

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Morbidity

the number of deaths in a certain group of people in a certain period of time.

Universal Health Care Act RA#

One of the principles of PHC that refers to adequate attention to all aspects of a medical problem, including prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, follow up measures, and rehabilitation.

Heart and soul of PHC

defined Primary Health Care as follows: Primary health care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost the community & country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in spirit of self-determination.

According to WHO, this is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.