ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Vision

The AHDP envisions a country with well informed, empowered, responsible and healthy adolescents who are
leaders in the society

Mission

Its mission is to ensure that all adolescents have access to comprehensive health care and services in an adolescent-
friendly environment.

Objectives

Improve the health status of adolescents and enable them to fully enjoy their rights to health.

CANCER CONTROL PROGRAM

Vision

Comprehensive Cancer Care and Optimized Cancer Survival in 2025

Mission

To reduce the impact of cancer and improve the wellbeing of Filipino people with cancer and their families

Goals

1. To reduce premature mortality from cancer by 25% in 2025

2. To ensure relative reduction of the following risk factors for cancer

a. 10% harmful use of alcohol

b. 10% physical inactivity

c. 30% tobacco use

3. To guarantee the availability of the following services for selected population:

a. Selected cancer screening

b. Human Papilloma Virus and Hepatitis B vaccination

c. Access to palliative care

d. Drug therapy and counseling

CHRONIC-KIDNEY DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

Vision

Philippines free from the avoidable burden of NCDs.

Mission

Provision of accessible, affordable, quality health care services to all

Goal

To reduce premature mortality due to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, chronic respiratory diseases,
chronic kidney diseases, and cancer* by 25% by 2025.

EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE PROGRAM

Vision:

A health system that is resilient, capable to prevent, detect and respond to the public health threats caused by
emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

Mission:

Provide and strengthen an integrated, responsive, and collaborative health system on emerging and re-
emerging infectious diseases towards a healthy and bio-secure country.

Goal:

Prevention and control of emerging and re-emerging infectious disease from becoming public health problems,
as indicated by EREID case fatality rate of less than one percent

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

Vision

Environmental Health (EH) related diseases are prevented and no longer a public health problem in the
Philippines (based on on-going Strategic Plan 2019-2022)

Mission

To guarantee sustainable Environmental Sanitation (ES) services in every community

Objectives

1. Expand and strengthen delivery of quality ES services

2. Institute supportive organizational, policy and management systems
3. Increase financing and investment in ES
4. Enforce regulation policy and standards
5. Establish performance accountability mechanism at all levels

FOOD AND WATERBORNE DISEASES PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM

Vision

A Food and waterborne disease free Philippines

Mission

To reduce the burden of FWDs and outbreaks through case management, lab diagnosis, health promotion,
policy development, logistics management, research and M&E, and surveillance and interagency collaboration

Goal

Reduced morbidity and mortality due to FWBDs including outbreaks

HIV, AIDS AND STI PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM

Vision

to achieve ZERO new infections, ZERO discrimination, and ZERO AIDS-related death.

Mission
to improve access and utilization of preventive primary health care services for HIV and STI,

Goals

to reverse the trend of HIV epidemic by reducing the estimated annual infections to less than 7,000 cases by
2022.

HUMAN RESOURCE FOR HEALTH NETWORK

Vision: Collaborative partnerships for the development of adequate, globally competent and sustainable health workforce that is
able to contribute significantly to the attainment of universal quality health care

Mission:

The HRHN is a multi-sectoral organization working effectively for coordinated and collaborative action in the accomplishment
of each member organization’s mandate and their common goals for HRH development to address the health service needs of the
Philippines, as well as in the global setting.

To harness, mobilize and optimize the competencies and resources of the member-organizations in formulating, harmonizing and
implementing policies and plans to develop and deploy HRH, and ensure their welfare such that they are enabled to provide
universal quality health care.
Objectives:

The objectives of the HRHN is to harmonize the policies and coordinate the action of different agencies, accredited professional
organizations, academic institutions, and mom-government organizations in the production, welfare, and development of HRH to
deliver quality health care for the Filipinos by:

1. Ensuring that the education and training of HRH is linked to health system needs;
2. Ensuring that HRH are well-motivated and effectively contribute to the health system;
3. Ensuring that the principles of ethical recruitment of international health personnel are promoted and practiced;
4. Engaging in national and international partnerships and networks for the management and development of HRH;
5. Ensuring that HRH planning, and policy monitoring and development are coordinated across different agencies; and,
6. Protecting and upholding the rights of HRH to decent work, social dialogue and collective negotiations.

IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM
Vision

Enabled and strong immunization system for everyone, everywhere at every age to attain a vaccine-preventable disease-free and a healthier
Philippines.

MissionGuided by the Universal Health Care Law, the program commits to ensure that every Filipino is fully immunized from vaccine-
preventable diseases by building a strong and well-supported immunization system that is equipped for routine immunization service delivery and
backed with contingencies for and response to public health crises related to VPDs, vaccines and immunization programs.Specific Goals

1. Strengthen immunization services within the primary health care and eventually contribute to universal health
coverage and sustainable development.
2. Leave no one behind by expanding equitable protection with vaccination for all ages.
3. Reduce mortality and morbidity by proactively preventing outbreaks of VPDs and providing timely response to
outbreak and other potential health crises related to immunization.
4. Effectively communicate and address hesitancies and misinformation regarding immunization.

INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING PROGRAM

Vision

Well-fed, nurtured children and health mothers; Breastfeeding as a social norm; Competent and dignified
health workers; Enabling health systems, communities, and workplaces; and Whole of society working
together, accountable to make this vision happen.

Mission

Focusing on the First 1,000 Days, stakeholders of the Philippine IYCF Program shall set out to

1. nurture and nourish the mother and child;

2. reduce stunting and all other forms of malnutrition; and
3. create an enabling environment for optimal infant and young child feeding

Goals

Reduction of child mortality and morbidity through optimal feeding of infants and young children

LEPROSY CONTROL PROGRAM

Vision

Leprosy-free Philippines by year 2022

MIssion
To ensure the provision of comprehensive, integrated quality leprosy services at all levels of health care

Goal

To further reduce the leprosy burden. By 2022, these targets must be attained 1) Zero G2D rate among
pediatric leprosy patients 2) reduction of new leprosy cases to less than one case per million population 3) No
countries with legislation allowing discrimination on basis of leprosy.

MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAM

Vision:

Empowered healthy and well-nourished Filipino families

Mission:

DOH and partners to align their strategic actions and exert collective and unified efforts to create a supportive
environment for a sustainable and improved nutrition development

Goal:

To reduce prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies (Vitamin A, Iron and Iodine) below public health
significance

NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM

Vision

For Filipino women and men achieve their desired family size and fulfill the reproductive health
and rights for all through universal access to quality family planning information and services.

Mission

In line with the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus strategy and Universal Health Care
framework, the National Family Planning Program is committed to provide responsive policy
direction and ensure access of Filipinos to medically safe, legal, non-abortifacient, effective, and
culturally acceptable modern family planning (FP) methods.

Objectives

1. To increase modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR) among all women from
24.9% in 2017 to 30% by 2022
2. To reduce the unmet need for modern family planning from 10.8% in 2017 to 8% by
2022

NATIONAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD PROGRAM

Vision

For Filipino women to have full access to health services towards making their pregnancy and
delivery safer

Mission

Guided by the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus thrust and the Universal Health Care
Frame, the National Safe Motherhood Program is committed to provide rational and responsive
policy direction to its local government partners in the delivery of quality maternal and newborn
health services with integrity and accountability using proven and innovative approaches

Objectives

The Program contributes to the national goal of improving women’s health and well-being by:

1. Collaborating with Local Government Units in establishing sustainable, cost-effective

approach of delivering health services that ensure access of disadvantaged women to
acceptable and high quality maternal and newborn health services and enable them to
safely give birth in health facilities near their homes
2. Establishing core knowledge base and support systems that facilitate the delivery of
quality maternal and newborn health services in the country.
NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM
Vision:

No Filipino newborn shall be deprived of a functional sense of hearing.

Mission:

1. To have all newborns undergo hearing screening prior to hospital discharge or within three months of born outside the
hospital;
2. To provide an accessible, effective and efficient system of services
3. To implement time-bound intervention: hearing screening within the first month, hearing evaluation within the third month and
early intervention by the sixth month
4. To provide the necessary services for hearing habilitation/ rehabilitation
5. To monitor the incidence and prevalence of hearing loss in the Philippines
6. To promote awareness and information campaign to the public about hearing loss

Goal:

Every newborn shall be given access to physiologic hearing screening examination prior to hospital discharge
or at the earliest possible time for the detection of hearing loss.

NEWBORN SCREENING PROGRAM

Vision:

Every Filipino child will be born healthy and well, with an inherent right to life, endowed with human dignity
and reaching her/his potential with the right opportunities and accessible resources.

Mission:

To ensure that all Filipino children will have access to and avail of total quality care for the optimal growth
and development of their full potential.

Goal:

By 2030, all Filipino newborns are screened and properly managed for common and rare congenital disorders
to reduce preventable deaths of newborns.

RABIES PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM

Mission:

To Declare Philippines Rabies-Free by year 2030

Vision:

To eliminate human rabies by the year 2027

Goal:

To eliminate rabies as a public health problem, with absence of indigenous cases for both human and
animal.

SAFE MOTHERHOOD PROGRAM

Mission
Our Mission is for Filipino women to have full access to health services towards making their pregnancy and
childbirth safer.

Vision

In support of the Ambisyon Natin 2040, the National Safe Motherhood Program envisions a healthy Filipino
family where the mother is healthy as the other members of her family.

Goal

Our Goal is guided by the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus thrust and the Universal Health Care
Frame, thus the National Safe Motherhood Program is committed to provide rational and responsive policy
direction to its local government partners in the delivery of quality maternal and newborn health services with
integrity and accountability using proven and innovative approaches.

SANITATION PROGRAM

Vision:

Sustainable Sanitation for All Filipinos.

Mission:

Environmental sanitation related diseases are prevented and no longer a public health problem in the
Philippines

Goals:

To guarantee sustainable environmental sanitation services in every community

SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM

Vision:

Tobacco Free Philippines: Healthier People, Communities and Environment.

Mission:

Guarantee the design and Implementation of an Integrated Comprehensive and Whole System of Government
- Society Response

Goal:
Reduce morbidity rates and premature mortality rates due to 4 major chronic
disease:cardiovascular,diabetes,cancer and COPD attributable to tobacco use

Specific Objectives:

To reduce the prevalence of tobacco use among youths and adults

To increase the protection level of the public from secondhand tobacco smoke

CHRONIC-KIDNEY DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

Vision:

Philippines free from the avoidable burden of NCDs.

Mission:

Provision of accessible, affordable, quality health care services to all

Goal:

To reduce premature mortality due to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, chronic respiratory diseases,
chronic kidney diseases, and cancer* by 25% by 2025.

PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS PROGRAM

Vision:

All Filipinos enjoy the right to sight by year 2020

Mission:

The DOH, Local Health Unit (LGU) partners and stakeholders commit to:

Strengthen partnership among and with stakeholder to eliminate avoidable blindness in the Philippines;
Empower communities to take proactive roles in the promotion of eye health and prevention of blindness;
Provide access to quality eye care services for all; and Work towards poverty alleviation through preservation
and restoration of sight to indigent Filipinos.

Goal:

Reduce the prevalence of avoidable blindness in the Philippines through the provision of quality eye care