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Department of Health Vision: Health for all Filipinos Mission: to ensure accessibility and quality OF HEALTHCARE TO IMPROVE quality

of life of all Filipinos especially the poor 1. Fostering a strong and healthy nation 2. enhancing the performance of the health sector 3. Ensuring universal access to essential quality care 4. Improving macroeconomics and social conditions for better health gain Goal of DOH 1. better health outcomes 2. more responsive health system 3. more equitable healthcare financing MEDIUM TERM objective 1. Secure increased better sustained investment in health 2. assure the quality and affordability of health goods and services 3. improve the accessibility and availability of basic and essential healthcare for all 4. improve health systems performance at the national and local levels RA 9502 - an act of providing cheaper and quality medicines RA 8293 - intellectual property code RA 6675 - generic act of 1988 RA 5921 - pharmacy law and for other purposes RA 9482 - act providing control and elimination of human and animal rabies prescribing penalties for violation and appropriating funds therefore RA 9288 - Newborn Screening: act promulgating a comprehensive policy and a national system to ensure newborn screening RA 9257 - expanded senior citizens act of 2003: act granting additional benefits and previewers to senior citizens amending for the purpose RA 7432 otherwise known as an act maximize the contributions of senior citizens to nation building grant benefits and special privileges and for other purposes RA 9165 - dangerous drugs act of 2002: act instituting the comprehensive dangerous drugs of dangerous act of 2002 repealing RA 6425 otherwise known as the dangerous drug act of 1972 amended providing funds therefore and for other purposes thereof RA 8749 - Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 - an act providing for a comprehensive air pollution control policy and for other purposes RA 8504 - Prevention and Control of 1988: promulgating policies and prescribing measures for the

prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines, instituting a nationwide HIV/AIDS info and educational program establishing HIV/AIDS monitoring system, strengthening the PH National AIDS Council for other purposes RA 7883 - Brgy Health workers Benefits of 1995 : act granting benefits to accredit Brgy workers and for other purposes RA 7719 - National Blood Services Act of 1994 - act promoting voluntary blood donation providing for an adequate supply of safe blood regulating blood bank and providing penal ties for violations thereof RA 7305 - Magna Carta of Public Health Workers: RA 4688 - act regulating operation and maintenance of clinical laboratories and requiring the registration of the same with the department of health providing penalty for violation thereof and other purposes RA 6675 - Generics Act of 1988: act to promote required and ensure the production of an adequate supply distribution, use and acceptance of drugs and medicine identified by their generic names RA 8423 - Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act (TAMA of 1997): an act creating the Philippine Institute and alternative healthcare to accelerate the development of traditional and alternative healthcare in the PH providing for additional and alternative healthcare RA 8344 - act prohibiting the demand of deposits or advance payments for the confinement of treatment of patients in hospitals and medical clinics in certain places

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