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USAID GLOBAL HEALTH
The U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Programs in global health represent the commitment and determination of the US government to prevent suffering, save lives, and create a brighter future for families in the developing world. USAID's commitment to improving global health includes confronting global health challenges through improving the quality, availability, and use of essential health services. USAID's strategy for global health seeks to stabilize world population and protect human health through programs in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, family planning and reproductive health, infectious diseases, environmental health, nutrition and other life-saving areas. Global health issues have global consequences that not only affect the people of developing nations but also directly affect the interests of American citizens
The Department of Health (DOH), Philippines
The Department of Health (DOH) is the principal health agency in the Philippines. As such, it provides national policy directions and develops national plans, technical standards and guidelines on health. It has a network of 18 regional offices, called the Centers for Health Development, with direct links to the devolved Local Government Units (LGUs). The DOH mains specialty hospitals, regional hospitals and medical centers. It also maintains provincial health teams made up of DOH representatives assigned to LGUs.
The DOH has crafted the National Objectives for Health (NOH) for 2005-2010. The NOH, the road map for the health sector in the medium term, lays out the health status of the country, presents the health objectives in the near term and identifies the means by which to realize the objectives.
FOURmula (F1) One for Health, on the other hand, is the guiding implementation framework for health sector reforms during the second half of this decade. Health interventions will be implemented as a consolidated package, backed by effective management infrastructure and financing arrangements. The entire health sector (public and private, national agencies, LGUs, the donor community and civil society) will be engaged in the implementation of health reforms. F1 One for Health is intended to achieve three main goals: 1) better health outcoes, 2) more responsive health system, and 3) more equitable health care financing.
Commission on Population (POPCOM) Philippines
The Commission on Population (POPCOM) was created in 1970 through Republic Act 6265, as the central coordinating and policy-making entity on population-related issues. Today, POPCOM serves as a technical and information resource agency, working in partnership with national and local gover nment policy and decision makers, program implementers, community leaders and civil society. POPCOM seeks to create a favorable and enabling policy environment for population, responsible parenthood and reproductive health.
National Statistics Office(NSO), Philippines
The National Statistics Office (NSO) is the major statistical agency responsible in collecting, compiling, classifying, producing, publishing, and disseminating general-purpose statistics as provided for in Commonwealth Act No. 591.
NSO has also the responsibility of carrying out and administering the provision of the Civil Registry Law as provided for in Act No. 3753 dated February 1931.