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    The Department of Health (DOH) is the principal health agency in the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services. It develops national health plans, standards and guidelines. It regulates health services and products. It also provides specialized tertiary healthcare and technical assistance. Following decentralization in 1991, local governments took primary responsibility for delivering local health services, with DOH retaining roles in policy, standards and specialized care. Tertiary hospitals are managed by provinces while municipalities provide primary care through health centers and barangay stations.

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    The Department of Health (DOH) is the principal health agency in the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services. It develops national health plans, standards and guidelines. It regulates health services and products. It also provides specialized tertiary healthcare and technical assistance. Following decentralization in 1991, local governments took primary responsibility for delivering local health services, with DOH retaining roles in policy, standards and specialized care. Tertiary hospitals are managed by provinces while municipalities provide primary care through health centers and barangay stations.

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    The Department of Health (DOH) is the principal health agency in the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services. It develops national health plans, standards and guidelines. It regulates health services and products. It also provides specialized tertiary healthcare and technical assistance. Following decentralization in 1991, local governments took primary responsibility for delivering local health services, with DOH retaining roles in policy, standards and specialized care. Tertiary hospitals are managed by provinces while municipalities provide primary care through health centers and barangay stations.

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    Department of Health

    Department of Health (DOH)

    holds the over-all technical authority on


    health as it is a national health policy-
    maker and regulatory institution.
    Department of Health (DOH)

    Vision by 2030 Mission


    A global leader for To guarantee equitable,
    attaining better health sustainable and quality
    outcomes, competitive health for all Filipinos,
    and responsive health care especially the poor, and
    system, and equitable to lead the quest for
    health financing. excellence in health.
    DOH Health Secretaries

    DR. MANUEL DAYRIT DR. ESPERANZA I. CABRAL DR. ENRIQUE T. ONA


    February 2001 - May 2005 January 2010 - June 2010 June 2010 - December 2014
    DOH Health Secretaries

    DR. JANETTE P. LORETO-GARIN DR. PAULYN JEAN B. ROSELL-UBIAL DR. FRANCISCO DUQUE III
    December 2014 - June 30, 2016 July 1, 2016 - October 2017 October 2017 - present
    DOH Three Major Roles

    1) leadership in health
    2) enabler and capacity builder
    3) administrator of specific
    services.
    Department of Health (DOH)

    its mandate is to develop national plans, technical


    standards, and guidelines on health.

    Aside from being the regulator of all health services and


    products, the DOH is the provider of special tertiary
    health care services and technical assistance to health
    providers and stakeholders.
    Department of Health Function

    • The Department of Health (DOH) is the


    principal health agency in the Philippines. It is
    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.
    Department of Health Function

    • Given the mandate, DOH is both a stakeholder


    in the health sector and a policy and
    regulatory body for health. As a major player,
    DOH is a technical resource, a catalyzer for
    health policy and a political sponsor and
    advocate for health issues in behalf of the
    health sector.
    Department of Health Goals

    • Better health outcomes


    • More responsive health system
    • Equitable health care financing
    DEVOLUTION
    Decentralization and Health in the Philippines

    Republic Act (RA) 7160 (1991 Local Government Code


    (LGC)
    introduced a major reform to the country’s health sector
    landscape by shifting the primary role of delivering local
    health services from the national, i.e., central,
    government to local governments.
    Decentralization and Health in the
    Philippines

    • Tertiary level health services, including the


    operation of provincial and some district hospitals.
    • Municipal governments, on the other hand, are
    tasked to provide primary and preventive care,
    including maternal and child health services,
    through its network of Rural Health Units and
    Barangay Health Stations (BHS).
    Decentralization and Health in the
    Philippines

    • Hospitals

    • Health Centers

    • Barangay Health
    Station
    LGU vs National

    City/Municipal Department of Health

    Local Government Unit National Government Unit


    LGU vs National

    Local Government Units (LGU), a local health board,


    headed by the local chief executive, is mandated to serve
    as an advisory body for the LGU.
    National Government, through the Department of Health
    (DOH), kept its role of setting and enforcing the country’s
    national policy agenda, technical standards, and
    guidelines on health, as well as its mandates over
    specialized and tertiary-level health care.

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