Evolution of Public Health Nursing in the Philippines

1577

Franciscan Juan Clemente - medical disciplinary in Intramuros, Manila for the Indigents

1620

Dominican Father Juan de Pergero installing water systems in San Juan

1805

Dr. Francisco de Balmis - personal physician of King Charles IV of Spain

• introduced smallpox vaccination

1876

Spanish Governemrnt appointed the first “medicos titulares” who worked as provincial health officers

1888

UST offered 2 year course medical and dental subjects

course: cirujanosministrantes - served as male nurses and sanitation inspectors

1901

creation of Board of Health by Phil. Commission Act No. 157

Act No. 309 - created Provincial and Municipal Boards of Health

1905

Board of Health abolished and taken over by Bureau of Health thru Act. No. 1407

1906

Creation of District Health Offices

1912

Creation of Sanitary Divisions thru Fajardo Act (A.N. 2156)

• PGH sent 4 nurses to Cebu to take care of mothers

• St. Paul Hospital School of Nursing assigned 2 nurses to home visit in Manila to give nursing care to mothers and newborns

• Focus on Maternal and Child Health to high-infant maternal mortality rate

• Public Health Nursing started in Philippines

1914

School Nursing started and rendered by a Filipino Nurse employed by the Bureau of Health in Tacloban, Leyte

1915

Social and Home Care Service was started by PGH to extend public health nursing services in the homes of patients

1919

CARMEN DEL ROSARIO - The first Filipino supervisor was appointed under the Bureau ot Health

Red Cross introduced operation of Puericulture Centers focusing maternal and infant care

1923

2 government schools of nursing

• Zamboanga Gen. Hosp. School Nursing in Mindanao

• Baguio Gen. Hosp. in Northern Luzon

4 more: (QCBL) Quezon province, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte

1928

First convention of nurses was held

Followed yearly conventions until the advent of WW 2

1933

Reorganization Act no. 4470 - more positions of nurses

1935

133 positions of Public health nurses to work with high infant rate

1940

Creation of Manila Health Department by the vitrue of the new charter of the city

Dept. of Health and Welfare is created

1941

PHN in Manila assign to devastated areas during WW 2

1942

31 PHN who were taken as prisoners were released by the Japanese Army

1946

Post war records show decreae no. of PHNs from 556 to 308

1947

reorganization of government offices under EO 94

• created a division-1st chief in the person of MRS. GENERA DE GUZMAN

1954

RA1082 - RURAL HEALTH UNIT ACT providing employment for health personnel

1957

RA 1891 - strengthened health and dental service in the rural areas, creating 8 categories of RHU

1958

creation of regional health offices as a result of decentralization

1970

PHCDS was restructured into primary, secondary, tertiary levels

1971

creation of other health agencies (FDA, NCMCH, FPF, NNO, Bureau of Disease Center, Malaria Eradication Service, Bureau of Dental Health Services)

1972

LOI 8 pursuant to PD 1 = DOH to Min. of Health

• dividing 12 regions

1979

LOI 949 adopting PHC as an approach to community development

1982

EO 851 reorganizing the MOH creating the Health Education and Manpower Development Services

1986-1987

MOH to DOH again

adding NCR, CAR, and ARMM were added to the 12 regions

1991

full implementation of RA 7160 (Local Government Code)

1999

EO 102 - redirecting functions and operations of the DOH

PROGRAMS:

1. HSRA

2. NATIONAL OBJECTIVES OF HEALTH

3. NATIONAL HEALTH PLANNING COMMITTEE

2000

formulation 8 MDG (Millennium Development Goals)

2005

formulation and implementation framework of DOH known as FOURmula One

2008

4 P’s (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) was implemented as a flagship poverty alleviation program of the administration of former PRES. GLORIA AROYO

2010

launching of Universal Health Care that aims to provide equitable access to healthcare

2015

Adoptation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)