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SYSTEM BUILDING BLOCKS1 LEADERSHIP / GOVERNANCE 2 HEALTHCARE FINANCING 3 HEALTH WORKFORCE 4 MEDICAL PRODUCTS, TECHNOLOGIES 5 INFORMATION AND RESEARCH 6 SERVICE DELIVERY
GOALS AND OUTCOMES1 IMPROVED HEALTH 2 RESPONSIVENESS 3 FINANCIAL RISK PROTECTION 4 IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
Ensuring the existence of strategic policy frameworks combined with: -Effective oversight -Coalition-building -Provision of appropriate regulation and incentives -Attention to system design -AccountabilityLEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
1 Health governance (stewardship): Wide range of functions carried out by governments to: 2 Health governance examples1 Improve population health while ensuring: -Access to service -Quality of services -Patients rights 2 -Administrative details -Logistics and operations -Planning and policy making -Monitoring and evaluation
1 Governance: Roles, responsibilities and relationships of: __ 2 In pursuit of __ 3 Ensure __ and __ of health system vision-mission1 -Public sector -Private sector -Voluntary sectors 2 National Health Goals 3 clarity, actualization
1 THE DOH IS THE LEAD AGENCY FOR PHILIPPINE HEALTHCARE1 Mandate (E.O. No. 119, Sec 3)
1 Vision 2 Mission1 Filipinos are among the healthiest people in Southeast Asia by 2022, and Asia by 2040 2 To lead the country in the development of a productive, resilient, equitable and people-centered health system
Primary Goals of Health Sector1 Better health outcomes 2 More responsive healthcare 3 More equitable health financing
The act by which the Philippine Government "devolved" basic services (health services, agriculture extension, livelihood development, forest management, barangay roads, and social welfare) to Local Government Units (barangay municipality/city, province)RA 7160 (Local Government Code of 1991) - Devolution
1 Implementation of devolution in 1992 2) 4 Essential Health System Functions1 -Management and delivery of health services - From DOH to locally elected provincial, city and municipal governments 2 -Service provision -Resource generation -Financing -Stewardship
Devolution in BARMM1 Restrained centralized character of its health system 2 DOH ARMM directly runs its provincial and municipal health facilities
Health/ Health Care Financing TWO MAIN CHARACTERISTICS1 Raises adequate funds for health to ensure that people get to use needed services 2 People who use health services are shielded from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to pay for them
1 Health financing impacts the analysis of: 2 Health Financing Goals1 -Health policies -Fund sources -Effectiveness and efficiency of health services for populations 2 -Raising sufficient funds for health -Ensure adequate spending on health -Effectiveness of allocation of finite financial resources to different types of public and personal health services -Pooling financial resources across population groups and sharing financial risks -Using funds for health efficiency and equitability
Established the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) Commonly Known as: PhilhealthRA 7875 National Health Insurance Act of 1995 National Health Insurance Program
Health Workforce/ Human Resources for Health (HRH) 1 To achieve the best health outcomes possible:1 -Sufficient Numbers -Right mix of staff -System-wide development and distribution -Established job-related norms -Enabling work environments -Just compensation / payment systems
Access to Medicines and Technologies 1 Major constraints in Accessing Essential Drugs (DOH 2008) 2 Effects of devolution1 -Limited availability -Irrational Use -High costs 2 -LGUs left to budget for medicines
Medical Technology and Devices 1 The most basic equipment available across the country1 General Radiography (basic XRAY)
Health Information and Research 1 Reliable and timely health information measures: 2 A good system is where health information is:1 -Health determinants -Health systems performance -Health status 2 -produced -Analyzed -Disseminated -Used
Health InformationPolicy makers Planners Healthcare providers Development partners The general public
a joint project of the Department of Health and the National Telehealth Center, is a 5-year program aimed at expanding Telemedicine in 4th to 6th class municipalities nationwide. NTSP facilitates consults between primary care physicians in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA) and clinical specialists of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) using a mobile and internet-based interface and triaging system.National Telehealth Service Program (NTSP)
Ensure the accessibility of essential quality health products and services at appropriate levels of careHEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY