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The document provides a history of the Department of Health in the Philippines from its establishment in 1898 to the present. It details how the Americans first established a military and later civilian Board of Health to care for troops and citizens. A major epidemic in the early 1900s led to improvements in health institutions and infrastructure. The UP College of Medicine was established in 1905 along with other advancements. Leadership gradually transitioned to Filipinos in accordance with the Organic Act of 1916. The Bureau of Health was later reorganized and renamed multiple times, taking on journals, community health centers, and priorities such as tuberculosis. The Department of Health was officially created in 1944 and has since focused on building specialty hospitals and decentralizing its regional offices while

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Doh History: Messenger and Established Community Health and Social Centers, Precursors To

The document provides a history of the Department of Health in the Philippines from its establishment in 1898 to the present. It details how the Americans first established a military and later civilian Board of Health to care for troops and citizens. A major epidemic in the early 1900s led to improvements in health institutions and infrastructure. The UP College of Medicine was established in 1905 along with other advancements. Leadership gradually transitioned to Filipinos in accordance with the Organic Act of 1916. The Bureau of Health was later reorganized and renamed multiple times, taking on journals, community health centers, and priorities such as tuberculosis. The Department of Health was officially created in 1944 and has since focused on building specialty hospitals and decentralizing its regional offices while

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DOH HISTORY

On June 23, 1898, the Americans established a military Board of Health with... Dr. Frank
S. Bourns as president. The purpose of this Board of Health was to care for injured
American troops but as the hostilities between Filipinos and Americans waned in 1901, a
civilian Board of Health was now deemed appropriate with Dr. L. M. Maus as the first
health commissioner.

In the early 1900s, 200,222 lives including 66,000 children were lost; three percent of the
population was decimated in the worst epidemic in Philippine health history. In view of
this, the Americans organized and erected several institutions, including the Bureau of
Governmental Laboratories, which was built in 1901 for medical research and vaccine
production.

The Americans, led by Dean Worcester built the UP College of Medicine and Surgery in
1905, with Johns Hopkins University serving as a blueprint, at the time, one of the best
medical schools in the world. By 1909, nursing instruction was also begun at
the Philippine Normal School. In terms of public health, the Americans improved on the
sewer system and provided a safer water supply.
In 1915, the Bureau of Health was reorganized and renamed into the Philippine Health
Service. During the succeeding years leadership and a number of health institutions
were already being given to Filipinos, in accordance with the Organic Act of 1916. On
January 1, 1919, Dr. Vicente De Jesus became the first Filipino to head the Health
portfolio.
In 1933, after reorganization, the Philippine Health Service reverted to being known as
the Bureau of Health. It was during this time that it pursued its official journal, The Health
Messenger and established Community Health and Social Centers, precursors to
today's Barangay Health Centers.
By 1936, as Governor-General Frank Murphy was assuming the post of United
States High Commissioner, he would remark that the Philippines led all oriental countries
in terms of health status.[3]
When the Commonwealth of the Philippines was inaugurated, Dr. Jose Fabella was
named chief of the Bureau of Health. In 1936, Dr. Fabella reviewed the Bureau of
Health’s organization and made an inventory of its existing facilities, which consisted of
11 community and social health centers, 38 hospitals, 215 puericulture centers, 374
sanitary divisions, 1,535 dispensaries and 72 laboratories. In the 1940s, the Bureau of
Health was reorganized into the Department of Health and Public Welfare, still under
Fabella. During this time, the major priorities of the agency
were tuberculosis, malnutrition, malaria, leprosy, gastrointestinal disease, and the high
infant mortality rate.
When the Japanese occupied the Philippines, they dissolved the National Government
and replaced it with the Central Administrative Organization of the Japanese Army.
Health was relegated to the Department of Education, Health and Public Welfare
under Commissioner Claro M. Recto.
In 1944, President Manuel Roxas signed Executive Order (E.O.) No. 94 into law, calling for
the creation of the Department of Health. Dr. Antonio C. Villarama as appointed
Secretary. A new Bureau of Hospitals and a Bureau of Quarantine was created under
DOH. Under E.O. 94, the Institute of Nutrition was created in 1948 to coordinate various
nutrition activities of the different agencies.
On February 20, 1958, Executive Order 288 provided for the reorganization of the
Department of Health. This entailed a partial decentralization of powers and created
eight Regional Health Offices. Under this setup, the Secretary of Health passed on some
of responsibilities to the regional offices and directors.
One of the priorities of the Marcos administration was health maintenance. From 1975
to the mid-eighties, four specialty hospitals were built in succession. The first three
institutions were spearheaded by First Lady Imelda Marcos. The Philippine Heart
Center was established on February 14, 1975 with Dr. Avelino Aventura as director.
Second, the Philippine Children’s Medical Center was built in 1979. Then in 1983, the
National Kidney and Transplant Institute was set up. This was soon followed by the Lung
Center of the Philippines, which was constructed under the guidance of Health Minister
Dr. Enrique Garcia.
With a shift to a parliamentary form of government, the Department of Health was
transformed into the Ministry of Health on June 2, 1978 with Dr. Clemente S.
Gatmaitan as the first health minister. On April 13, 1987, the Department of Health was
created from the previous Ministry of Health with Dr. Alfredo R. A. Bengzon as secretary
of health.
MISSION AND VISION

Vision by 2030:
A global leader for attaining better health outcomes, competitive and responsive
health care system, and equitable health financing.

Mission:
To guarantee equitable, sustainable and quality health for all Filipinos, especially the
poor, and to lead the quest for excellence in health.

Importance of Training Program to the Student Trainee

As a student being on an internship program, it helps me to boost my


confidence and allow myself to express my knowledge through every task I perform. I
learned many things and this show me how life is being an employee. This offers me a
chance to learn new skills by doing in a setting where you are supervised by a work-
place professional and have the opportunity to achieve my own learning goals, without
the responsibilities of being a permanent employee and also it offers me the
opportunity to work with someone who can become my mentor throughout my career.
It allows me to decide what the right career for me to take and also developed my
communication skills within my work-place to achieve sense of accomplishment by
contributing to an organization.

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