DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

(DOH)
GROUP 9
Arañez, Jonabel
Malejana,Angelika
Mallo, Rosely
• The Department of Health is the executive department of the government of
the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services
by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care, the regulation of
all health services and products.
• Jurisdiction: Philippines
• Founder: United States
• Formed: September 10, 1898; 124 years ago
• Department executive: Hon. Teodoro “Ted” Herbosa, Secretary of Health
• Headquarters: San Lazaro Compound, Rizal Avenue, Santa Cruz, Manila
• Annual budget: ₱320 billion (2023)
 BUDGET OF DOH

General Appropriations Act (GAA) 2023

• DOH attached agencies and • Unpaid benefits to healthcare

corporations workers
(105 billion) (11 billion)

• DOH’s Office of the Secretary

(P196 billion) 
 When did the DOH launch?
The Department of Health (DOH) started off as the military Board
of Health on September 10, 1898. It was originally established to
care for injured American troops, but eventually evolved into the
Bureau of Health which is dedicated to improving public health. In
the 1940s, it changed into the Department of Health and Public
Welfare before becoming the Department of Education, Health,
and Public Welfare. In 1944, it became the Department of Health it
is now. with both the Bureau of Hospitals and the Bureau of
Quarantine under its management.
The Department of Health (DOH) serves as the
principal health agency in the country
Three major roles:
• as a health leader
• enabler and capacity-builder
• as an administrator of specific services
The function of the Department of Health (DOH)
• DOH is mandated to develop national plans,
technical standards, and guidelines on health and
serve as the regulator of all health services and
products.
• It is also the designated provider of special tertiary
health care services and technical assistance both to
health providers and the stakeholders.
ATTACHED AGENCIES OF DOH

• Philippine Institute of Traditional and

alternative health care (PITAHC)
• Philippine Health Insurance
Corporation ( PHIC)
• National Nutrition Council ( NNC)

• Family planning program
• Adolescents Health and Development program
• Rabies prevention and control program
• Infant and young feeding program
• Malaria control and elimination program
• Newborn screening program
• Immunization program
• Cancer control program
• Early childhood care development program
• Philippine cancer control program
• Oral health program
• Sanitation program
DOH PROGRAMS
• Mental health program
• Violence and injury prevention program
• Chronic-kidney disease prevention program
• Smoking cessation program
• Prevention of blindness program
• Philippine organ donation and transplant program
• Integrated Helmnith control program
• Schistosomiasis control and elimination program
• Aedes-borne viral disease prevention and control program
• Women and children protection program
• Filariasis elimination program
• Healthy and productive ageing program
• Micronutrient and supplementation program
• Food fortification program
THANK YOU