Essay About Health In The Philippines

According to the survey of American Public Health Association (1941), people define health simply as “the absence of disease, that living without disease is to be healthy.” Such a definition relegates health to the medical professions charged with protecting good health and overcoming or managing poor health.

This broader context of health was repeated in the 1946 World Health Organization Constitution, which defines health as “a state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Unfortunately, a small definition fails to recognize the multifactor that influence health.

Although these definitions of health have been criticized as utopians, they are important in their recognition that numerous factors influence the ability to be healthy, known as health determinants, these include biological, social and economic, environmental, lifestyle, services,

Relieving the hospitals from pressures of demand for the treatment of preventable diseases will enable them to concentrate on the non-preventable diseases and make these services available, accessible, and affordable to the greatest number of Filipinos.

In conclusion, hospitals are not only instruments that decisively affects the nature or outcome of health needs but determines the character and development of the whole health system by creating a huge amount of capacity to provide good welfare to the community. Two factors uplift the health system such as giving services that gives basic health information for better public health decision and giving opportunity to those medically skilled people located in rural settings that needs suitable job location to liberate them from being exhausted for long hours of travel and instead save energy allocated for better