HEALTH SECTOR REFORMS YEARS Flashcards
Centralized, government funded and operated health care system
1970s
Corporate hospital
Late 1970s
The prevention and nutrition became visible in push to promote breast feeding through the “milk code”.
1986
The Philippines was at the forefront of pharmaceutical regulation but it passed the generics law in the early 1980s in an attempt to lower the expenditure on drugs by promoting and purchasing non branded medicines.
Early 1990s
The “local government code” is passed and decentralized and that the governments and the financing health system are also decentralized, so there are devolution.
1991
In line with the decentralization efforts of the hospitals under DOH, we were granted fiscal autonomy.
1992
To reduce the pressure on government finances through the introduction of the National Health Insurance Act in 1985 which is considered now the major milestone of the social health protection.
1995
To counter the low levels of government financing for healthcare and the dilapidated healthcare infrastructure, The DOH introduced the health facilities enhancement fund to support local governments.
2007
Good Governance Act
2008
mandatory ISO certification for hospitals
2011
Sin Taxes for Health
2013
The Duterte administration signed the “Universal Health Care Law”
2019
what event happen during the 1970s
Centralized, government funded and operated health care system
Late 1970s
Corporate hospital
1986
The prevention and nutrition became visible in push to promote breast feeding through the “milk code”.
