VIOLENCE AND INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAM

-AO No. 2017-0002 or the Revised National Policy on Violence and Injury Prevention
The program is designed to reduced mortality, morbidity, and disability due to violence
and injuries in the following key areas of concern:

-Road Traffic Injuries;

-Burns and fireworks-related injuries;
-Drowning;
-Falls;
-Sports and recreational injuries;
-Interpersonal violence-related injuries including Violence Against Women and -----Children
(VAWC) and bullying;
-Animal bites and stings;
-Self-harm;
-Occupational or work-related injuries;
-Poisoning and drug toxicity.

STATUS

Morbidity

Types of Injuries
1. Road Traffic Injuries; Sports and recreational injuries;
Occupational or work-related injuries; Interpersonal violence-
related injuries including Violence Against Women and Children 4
(VAWC) and bullying

2. Burns, electrocutions, blast and fireworks-related injuries; 1

3. Drowning;

4. Falls; 1

5. Animal bites and stings;

6. Self-harm/Suicide; Poisoning and drug toxicity. 2

 ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION

Environmental Sanitation

It is the prevention and control of diseases by eliminating or controlling the

environmental factors which may form links in disease transmission.

It is the study of all factors in man’s physical environment which may exercise a
deleterious effect on his health, well-being and survival.

Importance of Environmental Sanitation

It promotes health
It prevents disease transmission
It eliminates breeding places of insects/animals that may be carrier of diseases
It improves the quality of life

Components of Environmental Sanitation

Water Supply Sanitation

Solid Waste Management
Food Sanitation
Insect and Vermin Control
Excreta and Sewerage Disposal
Housing and Public Places Sanitation
Environmental Protection
Hospital Waste Management

Water Supply Sanitation

Level I (Point Source) – A protected well (shallow and deep well) improved dug well, developed
spring, rainwater cistern with an outlet but without distribution system.

Level II (Communal Faucet System or Standpost) – Refers to a system composed of a source,

a reservoir, a piped distribution network,

Level III (Waterworks System) – A system with a source, transmission pipes, a reservoir, and a p
iped distribution network for household taps. Examples of these are MWSS and water districts.
Proper Excreta and Sewage Disposal Program

Level I

Non-water carriage toilet facility – no water necessary to wash the waste into receiving
space e.g. pit latrines, reed odorless earth closet.
Toilet facilities requiring small amount of water to wash the waste into the receiving
space e.g. pour flush toilet & aqua privies

Level II

On site toilet facilities of the water carriage type with water-sealed and flush type with
septic vault/tank disposal.

Level III

Water carriage types of toilet facilities connected to septic tanks and/or to sewerage
system to treatment plant.

Households with sanitary toilet facilities

This refers to households with flush toilets connected to septic tank and/or sewerage system or
any other approved treatment system, sanitary pit latrine or ventilated improved pit latrine.

Households with satisfactory disposal of solid waste

households with garbage disposal through composting, burying, city/municipal system st

orage, collection and disposal.

Households with complete basic sanitation facilities

households which satisfy the presence of the following basic sanitation elements, namely:
access to safe water, availability of a sanitary toilet and satisfactory system of garbage di
sposal.
 Water Supply and Sanitation Status HH %
With access to sage water supply
342
Level 1 (spring/rainwater)
HH w/ sanitary toilet facilities 300

HH w/satisfactory disposal of solid waste 300

HH w/complete basic sanitation facilities 300