Sa Healthy Pilipinas, Bawat Buhay Mahalaga

The 8-Point Action Agenda

02.26.23

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❏ Develop functional Healthcare Provider Networks

and Primary Care Provider Networks
❏ Improve benefit packages, including
comprehensive outpatient benefit package
❏ Establish adequate number of primary care
facilities
❏ Facilitate enrollment of every Filipino to a PCF
❏ Establish Public Health Units in the hospitals
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❏ Establish adequate number of specialty

centers
❏ Risk-based health regulation
❏ Improve program implementation
❏ Strengthen supply chain and logistics
management for the availability of
commodity
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❏ Interoperable Electronic Medical Record with

efficient processing of payment claims
❏ Strengthen the Health Information Systems
and e-health services (eg telemedicine) and
capacitate end-users
❏ Create more public-private partnership
initiatives on digital health improvement
❏ Digitize administrative process and data
management
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❏ Advance the capacity for mass casualty (eg

capacity Health Emergency Team)
❏ Improve displacement and evacuation
logistics of all health facilities
❏ Establish green health facilities
❏ Sustain the Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management for Health for all LGUs
❏ Anticipate and determine risks
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❏ Ensure health promotion and education,

including benefit availment
❏ Explore demand-generation activities
❏ Implement healthy settings approach
❏ Capacitate HEPOs/HEPUs to ensure
functionality
❏ Insitutionalize health interventions through
policies and guidelines
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❏ Ensure provision of mental health and

psychosocial services (improve access;
establish referral networks)
❏ Address stigma on mental health
❏ Imbibe arts and culture in health
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❏ Create adequate permanent positions for Human

Resources for Health
❏ Increase and standardize health workers’
positions and competitive compensation,
benefits, and incentives
❏ Ensure well-being of health workers and
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compliance with minimum work environment

standards
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❏ Develop and implement career paths of public

health workers across the public and private
sectors, including LGUs
❏ Enable health workers to obtain appropriate
skills, knowledge and attitudes through learning
and in-service staff development methods (eg
needs-based training and monitoring of
trainings attended)
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❏ Strengthen epidemiology and surveillance

❏ Establish public health laboratory network
❏ Engage emerging and re-emerging diseases
experts
❏ Establish the following:
❏ Infectious disease hospital wings in every
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provincial hospital, with a sufficient number

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❏ Additional regional level 3 biosafety

laboratories and well-distributed genome
centers
❏ Create more fellowships for specialty programs
on infectious diseases with the regional
hospitals and specialty centers
❏ Draft streamlined and long-term national health
security plan
❏ Educate people, not just health workers
Daghang salamat!

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