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are tasked with providing
primary and secondary hospital care,
Local Government Units such as provincial governments
are tasked
with providing promotive and preventive health programs and basic
ambulatory clinical care.
while city and municipal governments
Positions retained within the DOH
Office of the Secretary of Health
Attached agencies and corporations
Central bureaus and services
Regional Health Offices
Regional Hospitals, Medical Centres and Sanitaria
Positions Devolved to the provinces
Provincial Health Offices
Provincial Hospitals
District Health Offices
District Hospitals
Devolved to the cities
City Health Offices
City Hospitals
Health Centres and Barangay Health Stations
Positions
Devolved to the municipalities
Municipal Health Offices
Rural Health units and Barangay Health Stations
Current Heath Expenditure (CHE) in 2019
EUR 14 billion
percent higher compared to 2018.
10.19
Total Health Expenditure (THE), which comprises of CHE percentage
(87.5%)
Health Capital
Formation Expenditure (Investment,
12.5%),
Total Health Expenditure (THE), which comprises of CHE (87.5%) and Health Capital
Formation Expenditure (Investment, 12.5%), recorded in 2019
EUR 16 billion
- up by
- percent from 2018.
7.9
remains the largest among the sources of health financing in the country,
Household-Out-of-pocket payment
Household-Out-of-pocket payment (OOP) amounting to what percent in 2019
47.9 percent
- Based on strategy of what The Philippines
developed a largely centralized, government funded and operated health care system
‘Primary Health Care for All’ in the 1970’s
when the government started to own corporate hospitals
In the late 1970s
Prevention and nutrition became visible in pushing to promote breastfeeding through the
- Milk Code mandating breast feeding in 1986.
The Philippines was at the forefront of pharmaceutical regulation when it passed the
Generics Law in the early 1990’s
- in an attempt to lower expenditure on drugs by
promoting and purchasing non-branded medicines.
Generics Law in the early 1990’s
- decentralized also the governance and
financing of the health system (devolution).
The Local Government Code passed in 1991
