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Chapter 1,         Defining the Philippine Health         System

      --- Description of the Country
      --- Health Status of the Filipinos
      --- Health Care Delivery System                
      --- Responsiveness of the Health System
      --- Health Financing System     

Chapter 2,          Setting the Vision and Directions         for Health

      --- Basic Principles to Achieve 
           Improvements  in Health 
      --- Primary Goals of the Health Sector
      --- General Objectives and Strategies to 
           Achieve Health Goals 

Chapter 3,         Improving Health System         Performance

      --- Efficient and Equitable Health 
           Financing 
           >> Public Financing for Health
           >> Social Health Insurance 
                                                                       
      --- Effective Health Regulation
           >> Regulation of Health Products, 
                Facilities  and Services
           >> Regulation of Essential Medicines 

      --- Appropriate Health Service Delivery
           >> Delivery of Public Health Programs
           >> Delivery of Hospital Services 

      --- Good Governance in Health
           >> Local Health Systems Development 
           >> Health Human Resource 
                Development
           >> Financial Procurement and
                Logistics Management              
           >> Knowledge Management      

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Chapter 4,      Reducing the Burden of Disease

     --- Prevention and Control of Communicable
          Diseases 
          >> Tuberculosis                                      
          >> Pneumonia and Other Acute 
               Respiratory Infectious
          >> Vaccine Preventable Diseases
          >> HIV/AIDS and Other Reproductive 
               Tract Infections
          >> Rabies
          >> Leprosy                                       
          >> Malaria
          >> Filariasis
          >> Dengue                                        
          >> Schistosomiasis
          >> Food-borne and Water-borne
               Diseases 
          >> Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis and  
               other  Parasitoses
          >> Dental and Periodontal Infections
          >> Emerging and Re-emerging Infections
  
      --- Prevention and Control of 
           Non-Communicable Diseases 
          >> Lifestyle-related Diseases
          >> Diseases of the Kidney and the 
               Urinary  Tract
          >> Mental Health and Mental Disorders
          >> Accidents and  Injuries                        

      --- Promotion and Protection of Family 
           Health
          >> Mothers and their Unborn 
          >> Newborns, Infants and Children
          >> Adolescents and Youths 
          >> Adult Men and Women
          >> Older Persons
          >> Vulnerable Population Groups

      --- Management of Health Risks Factors 
          and Practices
          >> Environmental Health Risks 
          >> Occupational Health Risks
          >> Nutritional Health Risks and Disorders 
          >> Addictive Substances

Chapter 5,        Forging Partnerships in Health

      --- Partners in Health 
      --- Managing Effective Partnership