DOH PROGRAMS IMPORTANT NOTES

1.Adolescent and Youth Health and Development
Program (AYHDP)
*Important because the body of someone going
through adolescence is changing, and they also
tend to be curious in nature.
*Focused on Addressing the following:
-Growth and Development concerns, Nutrition,
Physical, Mental and
emotional status
-Reproductive health Sexuality , Reproductive
Tract infection (STD, HIV/AIDS)
-Responsible parenthood, Maternal and Child
health,
-Communicable diseases, Diarrhea, DHF, Measles,
Malaria
-Mental Health Substance use and abuse
-Intentional/non-intentional injuries Disability
*Mission is to ensure that all adolescent and
youth have access to quality health care
services in an adolescent and youth friendly
environment.

2. Botika ng Barangay *Important for the community to have access to

free or cheaper medicines
- Refers to a drug outlet manage by a legitimate
community
organization (CO/non-government Organization
(NGO) and/or Local
Government Unit (LGU), with a trained operator
and a supervising
pharmacist specifically established in accordance
with
Administrative Order No. 144 s. 2004.
-The BnB outlet should be initially identified ,
evaluated and selected
by the Concerned Center for Health Development
(CHD), approved
by the National Drug-Policy-Pharmaceutical
Management Unit
(NDP-PMU 50), and specifically licensed by the
Bureau of Food and
Drugs (BFAD) to sell, distribute, offer for sale
and/or make available
low-priced generic home remedies, over-the
counter (OTC) drugs
and (2) selected, publicity-known prescription
antibiotic drugs.
3. Promotion of Breast feeding program/
Mother and Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
(MBFHI)
4. Cancer Control Program
5. Diabetes Control Program
*Via statistics, there is a decrease in the number
of women who breastfeeds
• The Mother and Baby Friendly Hospital
Initiative is the
main strategy to transform all hospitals with
maternity and
new born services into facilities which fully
protect,
promote, support breast feeding and rooming-in
practices
• To sustain this initiative, the field health
personnel has to
provide antenatal assistance and breastfeeding
counseling
to pregnant and lactating mothers as well as to
the
breastfeeding support groups in the community;
there
should also be continuous orientation and
reorientation/updates to newly hired and old
personnel,
respectively, in support of this initiative.
• The Philippines Cancer Control Program,
begun in 1988, is an integrated approach
utilizing primary, secondary and tertiary
prevention in different regions of the country
at both hospital and community levels.
• Six lead Cancers (lung, breast, liver, cervix, oral
cavity, colon and rectum) are discussed.
• Diabetes is a serious chronic metabolic disease
characterized by an increase in
blood sugar levels associated with long term
damage and failure or organs
functions, especially the eyes, the kidneys, the
nerves, the heart and blood vessels.
In diabetic, blood sugar reaches a dangerously
high level which leads to complications
• Blindness
• Kidney failure
• Stroke
• Heart attack
• Wounds that would not heal
• Impotence
What can you do to control your blood sugar?
• 1. Diet therapy
 • 2. Exercise
• 3. Control your weight
• 4. Quit smoking

6. Dengue Control Program • The thrust of the Dengue Control Program is

directed towards community-based prevention
and control in endemic areas
• Major strategy is advocacy and promotion,
particularly the Four O’clock Habit which was
adopted by most LGUs. This is a nationwide,
continuous and concerted effort to eliminate the
breeding places of Aedes aegypti. Other
initiatives are dissemination of IEC materials and
tri-media coverage

7. Dental Health Program • Comprehensive Dental Health program aims to

improve the quality of life of the people through
the
attainment of the highest possible oral health. Its
objective is to prevent and control dental
diseases and
conditions like dental carries and periodontal
diseases
thus reducing their prevalence.
• To attain orally fit children, the program focuses
on the
following package of activities: oral examination
and
prophylaxis; sodium fluoride mouth rinsing;
supervise
tooth brushing drill: fit and fissure sealant
application;
a-traumatic restorative treatment and IEC.

8. Emerging Disease Control Program • Emerging infectious disease are newly

identified and previously unknown infection
which cause public health problems either
locally or internationally. These include
diseases whose incidence in humans have
increased within the past two decades or
threaten to increase in the near future.

9. Environmental Health Environmental health is concerned with

preventing illness
through managing the environment and by
changing
people’s behavior to reduce exposure to
 biological and nonbiological agents of disease and
injury. It is concerned
primarily with effects of the environment to the
health of
the people.
Goals:
• Reduction of environmental and occupational
related
diseases, disabilities and deaths through health
promotion
and mitigation of hazards and risks in the
environment and
workplaces.

10. Expanded program on Immunization • The expanded program on immunization is

one of the DOH programs that has already
been institutionalized and adopted by all LGUs
in the region. Its objective is to reduce infant
mortality and morbidity through decreasing
the prevalence of six (6) immunizable diseases
(TB, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and
measles.

11. Family Planning • The program is anchored on the following basic

principles
1. Responsible Parenthood which means that
each
family has the right and duty to determine the
desired number of children they might have and
when they might have them
2. Respect for life
3. Birth spacing refers to interval between
pregnancies ( which is ideally 3 years)

Mission
• The DOH in partnership with LGUs, NGOs, the
private
sectors and communities ensures the availability
of FP
information and services to men and women who
need
them
Objectives
General:
• To help couples, individuals achieve their
desired family size
within the context of responsible parenthood and
improve
 their reproductive health

12. Food and Waterborne Diseases Prevention • The food and Waterborne Diseases Prevention
and and
Control Program Control Program (FWBDPCP) established in 1997
but
became fully operational in 1997 but became
fully
operational in year 2000 with the provision of a
budget
amounting to PHP 551,000.00 The program
focuses on
Cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and other food
borne emerging diseases (e.g. Paragonimus)

13. Knock out Tigdas The Knock-out tigdas is s strategy to reduce

the number or pool of children at risk of
getting measles, or being susceptible to
measles and achieve 95% measles circulation
in all communities in 2008.

14. Leprosy Control program • Leprosy Control program envisions eliminating

Leprosy as a human disease by 2020 and is
committed to eliminate leprosy as a public
health problem by attaining a national
prevalence rate (PR) of less than 1 per 10,000
populations by year 2000

15. Malaria Control Program • 58 of 80 provinces: malaria endemic

• Population at risk: 12 M
• 22 provinces: maintain malaria-free* status
• 2– 4 outbreaks per year
* malaria-free: absence of indigenous
malaria case

16. National Filariasis Elimination Program Mission:

• Universal access to quality health services
Program Objectives:
• General Objectives:
To reduce the Prevalence Rate to <1/1000
population
• Specific Objectives
1. To established the endemicity of municipalities
at the end of two years
2. To perform Mass Treatment in established
endemic municipalities for at least four
years.

17. National Mental Health Program
18. Newborn screening
19. Occupational Health Program
20. Health development Program for Older
Persons
3. To continue surveillance of established
endemic areas five years after Mass
treatment.
• It aims at integrating mental health within the
total health system, initially within the DOH
system, and local health system. Within the DOH,
it has initiated and sustained the integration
process within the hospital and public health
systems, both at the central and regional level.
Furthermore, it aims at ensuring equity in the
availability, accessibility, appropriateness and
affordability of mental health and psychiatric
services in the country.
• Newborn Screening (NBS) is a simple
procedure to find out if your baby has a
congenital metabolic disorder that may lead
to mental retardation and even death if left
untreated
• Vision/Mission Statement
• Health for all occupations in partnership with
the workers,
employers, local government authorities and
other sectors
in promoting self-sustaining programs and
improvement of
workers’ health and working environment.
• Program Objective and Targets: To promote and
protect the
health and well being of the working population
thru
improved health, better working conditions and
workers’
environment
• The Program intends to promote and improve
the
quality of life of older persons through the
establishments and provision of basic health
services for older persons, formulation of policies
and guidelines pertaining to older persons,
provision of information and health education to
the public, dedicated to older person and, the
conduct of basic and applied researches.
21. Pinoy MD Program “Gusto Kong Maging
Doktor”
22. Prevention of Blindness Program
23. Schistosomiasis Control Program
24. National TB Control Program
25. Republic Act 7719 is otherwise known as
“Blood
Services Act of 1994”
• A Medical scholarship Grant for Indigenous
People, Local Health Workers, Barangay Health
workers, Department of Health employees or
their children. This is a joint program of the
Department of Health (DOH), Philippine Charity
Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), and several State
Universities and Medical Schools
•
To eliminate all avoidable blindness by
preventing and controlling diseases through
the development of human resource,
infrastructure, and appropriate technology
• Goal of the National Schistosomiasis control
program is to eliminate Schistosomiasis as a
public health problem (Prevalence of 1% and
below)
• In 1196, WHO introduced the Directly Observed
Treatment Short Course (DOTS) to ensure
completion of treatment
• The DOTS strategy depends on five elements for
its success:
• Microscope, Medicines, Monitoring, DOT and
Political Commitment.
• If any of these elements are missing, our ability
to
consistency cure TB patients slips through our
fingers.
• The main Objectives are:
• To promote and encourage voluntary blood
donation
by the citizenry and to instill public consciousness
of
the principle that blood donation is a
humanitarian act
• To provide, adequate, safe, affordable and
equitable
distribution of supply of blood and blood
products