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The Department of Health (DOH; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) 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.
Comparing data from 2014 between Philippines, United States of America, and Canada, Philippines only spent 4.7% of their GDP on health while USA and Canada spent 17.1% and 10.4%. [2] [3] [4] Efforts are being performed to bridge the gap. On February 20, 2019, the Universal Health Care (UHC) Bill was signed into law, aiming to provide proper ...
Based on reports of Filipino American communities throughout the United States, specifically in higher population areas of Filipinos, there is a history of a higher prevalence of hypertension exhibited among Filipino American men and women than in other ethnic communities within the United States second to African Americans. [5]
Azurin spent over 40 years in the public health service. He was named Director of the Philippines’ Bureau of Quarantine in 1955. [12] During his tenure as Director – from 1955 to 1974 – Azurin participated in the continuous upgrading and revision of International Health Regulations (conducted in Geneva) that made international quarantine more effective and yet less restrictive on ...
As of September 2020, the Philippines has a population of nearly 110 million and a population density of 368 per square kilometer. 32% of the population of the Philippines is under 15 years old, and only 22.2% is over 60. In the Philippines, 16.6% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2018. [8] [9]
The United States federal government nearly considered selling Mindanao to the German Empire in 1910. [15] Except for the brief interruption of the Japanese occupation between 1942 and 1945, the United States ruled the Philippines from 1898 to 1946, after which, the Philippines was granted independence after being devastated by the Second World ...
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The Philippine Children's Medical Center is managed as a government-owned and operated corporation (GOCC) which is attached to the Department of Health.The hospital's government firm shares Board of Trustees with the other three specialty hospitals (Philippine Heart Center, Lung Center of the Philippines, and the National Kidney and Transplant Institute). [4]