HEALTH STATUS

INDICATORS

INTERVENTIONS OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

1) Leading causes of morbidity

· Implementing Health promotion programs

· Expanding National Health Insurance Policy (NHIP) enrolment and increase utilization

· Facility enhancement that shall leverage fund for improved facility capacity to adequately manage the common causes of morbidity

· Fiscal autonomy and income retention schemes for health facilities and government hospitals

· Service package

· Strengthening Health Systems

· Capability building of health care providers

· Intensifying disease surveillance

2) Leading causes of mortality

· Facility enhancement that shall leverage fund for improved facility capacity to adequately manage the common causes of morbidity

· Clustering and referral networks of health facilities on their catchment areas to address the current fragmentation of health services

· Capability building of health care providers

· Intensify disease surveillance

3) Indicators of Child Mortality

a) Perinatal Mortality

b) Neonatal Mortality

c) Infant Mortality

d) Under five Mortality

· Promoting universal access to standard child survival package of intervention that include New Born Screening and immunization.

· Enhancing the capacity of service delivery networks as channels of child survival.

· Creating opportunities for communities to overcome barriers to utilization of child survival.

· Harmonizing efforts of DOH, allied agencies and partners in supporting local delivery of child survival services.

· Building the LGUs resolve to adopt and implement child survival strategy.

· Mother-baby friendly facilities.

· Adopting and implementing appropriate guidelines for community-based management of acute malnutrition.

· Creation of policy on standard monitoring, recording & reporting of nutrition status of at risk population.

· Enhancing capabilities of health workers.

4) Leading causes of maternal mortality

· Promoting facility-based births attended by skilled health professionals catering to specific needs of mother and the newborn

· Increasing competencies of health providers in providing comprehensive health and maternal child health services

· Sustaining health care financing

· Post-partum care package

· Capability building of health care providers