Bacolod, Queen Elizabeth G.
BSN3A
ESSAY about
Community Health Network System in the Philippines
The community health network systems in the Philippines has gradually developed. The Philippines
has achieved significant improvements in life expectancy and immunization coverage, as well as a
twofold reduction in infant and under-5 mortality. But although much has been achieved to date,
there are still many concerns in the health sector that need to be tackled. These include a reduction
in the prevalence of tuberculosis and childhood pneumonia, as well as managing the rising tide of
non-communicable diseases and further strengthening the preparation and response capacity to
natural and human-induced disasters. And for the Philippines to give solutions, in this case, we need
to have a good healthcare system concerning the health network system to address the problems
easily and fast.
Other concerns regarding the health system in the Philippines is, there have been widespread efforts
to improve health service delivery in the country, but regional and socioeconomic disparities in the
availability and accessibility of resources are prominent. Across and within regions, there is a
maldistribution of infrastructure and human resources, which are concentrated in Metro Manila and
other major cities. The Philippines could also be a serious exporter of health-care professionals but
finds it challenging to form sure adequate availability within the country. Because of this many
Filipinos are not receiving good service when it comes to healthcare. Only who are privileged when
it comes to money are receiving good health service.
It is sad that for how many years that the government plans to improve the healthcare system, until
now many are not seeing and experiencing that improvement. But to beat a variety of those
challenges, the Department of Health (DOH) and PhilHealth are pushing the event of functional
Service Delivery Networks (SDNs) using both government and personal sector institutions.
Simultaneously, there'll be a concerted effort to manage and accredit all providers also as make sure
that end-users understand the advantages that they're entitled to.
The government-corporate hospitals, specialty, and regional hospitals are supervised also by the
Department of Health (DOH), while the Department of National Defense runs the military
hospitals. At the local level, the provincial governments manage and operate district and provincial
hospitals, while municipal governments provide medical care, including preventive and promotive
health services and other public health programs through the agricultural health units, health
centers, and barangay health stations.
In terms of the next steps to further improve our health network systems, most especially in this
time of pandemic, the Philippine government mounted a multi-sectoral response to the COVID-19,
through the Interagency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases chaired by the
Department of Health (DOH). Through the National Action Plan (NAP) on COVID-19, the
government aims to contain the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate its socioeconomic impacts.
In response to the COVID-19, the govt. within the Philippines mounted a multi-sectoral through the
Interagency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases chaired by the Department of
Health (DOH). Through the National Action Plan (NAP) on COVID-19, the govt. aims to mitigate
the COVID-19 socioeconomic impacts and contain the spread of it.
They implemented various steps including a community quarantine which expanded to Luzon also
as other parts of the country; expanded its testing capacity from one national reference laboratory
with the Research Institute of medicine (RITM) to 23 licensed testing labs across the country,
including for financing of services and management of cases needing isolation. Ensuring that its
health care system can handle surge capacity, quarantine, and hospitalization; and addressing the
social and economic impact to the community including by providing social amelioration to low-
income families.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been working with Ministries of Health worldwide to
rearrange and answer COVID-19. within the Philippines, the WHO country office within the
Philippines and its partners are working with the Department of Health and subnational authorities
to reply to the pandemic. The country-level response is completed with support from the WHO
regional office and headquarters. To detect cases of COVID-19 also on understand the disease
dynamics and trends and identify hotspots of disease transmission surveillance could also be a
critical component and is used. Existing surveillance systems were capitalized upon to hurry up the
identification of cases also as identify unusual clusters. Laboratory confirmation could also be a
critical component is cannot be the only source of knowledge on the television. The non-specific
symptoms and thus the novel nature of the disease means the DOH, with support from WHO, are
watching all available information sources to guide response deciding. WHO also provided
technical assistance to chose government units to strengthen field surveillance for timely data for
action at the local level.
Patients and doctors must be shielded from the possible transmission of COVID-19 inside health
facilities. Infection prevention and control (IPC) is critical in minimizing the harm caused by the
spread of infection in these facilities. within the first a neighborhood of the response, WHO
supported the DOH with the supply of private protective equipment (PPE) for doctors. To
strengthen IPC, WHO and DOH developed modules and conducted online IPC training of trainers
for frontline doctors in health care and community settings.
