CPH LEC - HISTORY OF DOH

Pre-Spanish & Spanish periods (before 1898)

traditional health care (herbs & rituals)

Pre-Spanish & Spanish periods (before 1898)

dispensary of indigent patients of Manila

Pre-Spanish & Spanish periods (before 1898)

Medicus Titulares

Pre-Spanish & Spanish periods (before 1898)

Superior Board of Health & Charity, 1888

June 23, 1898

creation of Emilio Aguinaldo government of Department of Public Works, Education & Hygiene

September 29, 1898 = 15

gen. order no. ___ established the Board of Health for the City of Manila

July 1, 1901 = 157

Act no. ___: Board of Health of Philippine Islands

July 1, 1901 = 307 & 308

Acts no, ____ : provincial and municipal boards

October 26, 1905 = 1407

Act no. ___: establishment of Bureau of Health

1912 = 2156

Act no. ___ (Fajardo Act): health fund for travel and salaries

1915 = 2568

Act no. ___ : from BOH to Philippine Health Service "semimilitary system of public health administration"

August 2, 1916 = 2711 = 1917

Act __ w/c included the Public Health Law of ___

1932 = 4007

Act no. ___: Reorganization Act

May 31, 1939 = 430 = 317 = Jan. 7, 1941

Commonwealth act no. ___created the Department of Public Health & Welfare, but was only completed through E.O. no. ___,

May 31, 1939 DPH&W

Dr. Jose Fabella became its first secretary

October 4, 1947 = 94

E.O. no. ___: post war reorganizaton of the Department of Health & Public Welfare

October 4, 1947

resulted in the split of Department of Public Welfare (w/c became Social Welfare Administration) and Philippine General Hospital to the Office of the President

October 4, 1947

another split between curative (Bureau of Hospitals & preventive services (Bureau of Health)

October 4, 1947

Nursing Service Division was also established

January 1, 1951

conversion of Sanitary District to Rural Health Unit, carrying the ff. services: maternal & child health, environmental health, communicable disease control, vital statistics, medical care, health education, public health nursing

January 1, 1951 = 1954 = 1082

resulted in passage of Rural Health Act of ___ (RA ___)

1970

conceptualization of the Restructured Health Care

1970

Delivery System (primary, secondary & tertiary levels of care)

June 2, 1978 = 1937

P.D. ___ renamed DOH to Ministry of Health during the Martial Law

June 2, 1978

Sec. Gatmaitan was the 1st minister of health

December 2, 1982 = 851

E.O. ___ reorganized Ministry of Health as an integrated health care delivery system through the creation of Integrated Provincial Health Office. combining the public health and hospital operations under the PHOS

April 13, 1987 = 119

Ε.Ο. no. ___: MOH was back in the name Department of Health by President Cory Aquino

October 10, 1991 = 7160

RA ____ known as the Local Government Code: all structures, personnel & budgetary allocations from the provincial health level down to the brgy were devolved to the LGU to facilitate health service delivery

October 10, 1991

From PROVINCIAL TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (devolution/devolved health sector)

May 24, 1999 = 102

E.O. ___"Redirecting the Functions & Operations of the DOH" by Pres. Joseph Estrada

1999-2004

Development of the Health Sector Reform Agenda

2005 to present

development of a plan to rationalize the bureaucracy in an attempt to scale down including the DOH