NAME: PAREDES, REENAIZAN A.

DATE: AUGUST 28, 2023

YEAR/COURSE: ST. DOMINIC – BSN 2C
TITLE OF THE COURSE: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING 1
TOPIC: DOH VISION AND MISSION

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. To learn the Vision and Mission of DOH.

2. To understand the DOH Vision and Mission by learning about the challenges

faced and solutions implemented in the Philippine Health Care System.

CHALLENGES:

1. Mixed health outcomes - Availability, accessibility and affordability of quality

healthcare have impeded healthcare utilization. The archipelagic nature of the country,

uneven distribution of its population and the varying levels of economic growth in the

regions led to human resource for health maldistribution, with health workers,

particularly doctors and nurses, concentrated in more urbanized and economically

developed areas.

2. Disjointed health system - Overlapping and sometimes, conflicting mandates of the

DOH and LGUs on health owing to devolution led to the disintegration of the originally

integrated referral system that linked public health services and hospital services.

Decentralization was pushed too far, leading to fragmentation in service delivery as each

health unit was inefficiently assigned to a different local government rather than keeping

the integrated provincial health system in place.

3. High out-of-pocket expenditure - More than half of health expenditures remained to be

funded by outof-pocket (OOP) payments despite increased resources for health in recent

years.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED:

 DOH pursues FOURmula One Plus (F1 Plus) for health, which aims to provide

Universal Health Care (UHC) for all Filipinos in the medium to long term.
 1. Better health outcomes - The health sector will sustain gains and address new

challenges especially in maternal, newborn and child health, nutrition, communicable

disease elimination, and non-communicable disease prevention and treatment.

2. Responsive health system – The quality of health goods and services as well as the

manner in which they are delivered to the population will be improved to ensure people-

centered healthcare provision.

3. Equitable and 4. Sustainable health financing - Access of Filipinos, especially the

poor and underserved, to affordable and quality health goods and services will be

expanded through mechanisms that provide them with adequate financial risk protection

from the high and unpredictable cost of healthcare.

VISION:

“Filipinos are among the healthiest people in Southeast Asia by 2022, and Asia by
2040.”

MISSION:

“To lead the country in the development of a productive, resilient, equitable, and
people-centered health system for Universal Health Care.”

 Productive – capable of providing high-quality medical services and goods.

 Resilient – capable of adjusting in situations of health crisis and medical emergency.

 Equitable – capable of providing all Filipinos with accessible and inexpensive health

care.

 People-centered – The primary focus is on the individuals and addressing their

health needs.

UHC:

 UHC means all Filipinos are guaranteed equitable access to quality and affordable

health care goods and services, and protected against financial risk.

 One of the goals of the UHC Act is to decrease the out-of-pocket expenses of

families. This means that some health services may become more affordable, but not

everything will be free. At the very least, the prices of health goods and services will

be predictable and affordable.