A REPORT ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH

EDUCATION AND PROMOTION AND ITS ROLE TO

THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

He who has health has hope, and he who

has hope has everything.
- Arabian Proverb
Definition of Terms:
National Health Promotion Plan
( based on the 1st Ottawa Conference)

1. Building healthy public policy

2. Creating supportive environment
3. Strengthening community
actions
4. Developing personal skills
5. Reorienting health services
Health Sector Reform Agenda
Direct mainly at:
a. expanding effective coverage of national
and local public health programs
b. increasing access, especially by the poor,
to personal health services delivered by
both public and private providers
c. reducing the financial burden on individual
families through universal coverage of the
National Health Insurance Program (NHIP)
It consist of 5 interrelated reforms:

1. Local health systems development

2. Hospital reforms
3. Public health program reforms
4. Health regulatory reforms
5. Social health insurance reforms
Local health systems development
Promote the development of local health
systems where networking among
municipal and provincial health facilities
are functional and sustained by
cooperation and cost sharing among local
government units (LGUs) in the
catchment area.
Hospital reforms
Provide fiscal and managerial autonomy
to government hospitals, which involves
improving the way hospitals are governed
and financed so that quality of care is
improved, hospital operations are cost
efficient, revenues are enhanced and
retained, and dependence on direct budget
subsidies are reduced.
Public health program reforms
Strengthen the capacity of the DOH to
exercise technical leadership in disease
prevention and control; enhance the
effectiveness of local public health
delivery systems; and sustain funding for
priority public health programs over a
period required to remove them as public
health threats.
Health regulatory reforms
Strengthen capacities of DOH to exercise
its regulatory functions to ensure that
health products (particularly
pharmaceuticals), devices, and facilities
are safe, affordable, and of good quality.
Social health insurance reforms
Expand the coverage and enhance the
benefit package of NHIP so as to
effectively reduce the financial burden to
individual families through effective risk
pooling, and provide the NHIP greater
leverage to ensure value for money in
benefit spending.
NHIP-National Health Insurance Program
Role of health education/promotion in to
the health care system
1. Health education improving the health status of
individuals, families, communities, states, and the nation
2. Health education enhances the quality of life for all
people
3. Health education reduces premature deaths
4. By focusing on prevention, health education reduces
the costs (both financial and human)
5. Health education is to positively influence the health
behavior of individuals
and communities as well as the living and working
conditions that influence their health.