These are the vulnerable age group for common childhood diseases.
Risk of infections is higher when:
What type of HEALTH care should be given to children ages 0-1?
What type of NUTRITION care should be given to children ages 0-1?
What type of ENVIRONMENT care should be given to children ages 0-1?
What type of HEALTH care should be given to children ages 1-5?
What type of NUTRITION care should be given to children ages 1-5?
What type of ENVIRONMENT care should be given to children ages 1-5?
This is known as Philippine National Strategic Framework for Plan Development of Children. It also states that health is a critical and fundamental element in a child’s welfare.
CHILDREN’S HEALTH 25 or CHILD 21
What is the purpose of Children’s Health 25 or CHILD 21?
Planning programs and interventions that promote and safeguard the rights of Filipino children in 2025.
What is the goal of Children’s Health 25 or CHILD 21?
To achieve good health for all Filipino children by the year 2025.
A _______ is:
- Wanted, planned, and conceived by healthy parents carried to term by healthy mothers.
- Screened for congenital defects shortly after birth.
- Exclusively breastfed for at least 6 months of age up to 2 years and complementary food at about 6 months.
- Provided with safe, clean, and hygienic surroundings and protected from accidents, offered to equal access to quality curative, preventive, promotive health care services and health education.
- Regularly monitored for proper growth and development.
- Provide with adequate psychosocial and mental stimulation screen for disabilities and developmental delays in early childhood.
- Protected from discrimination, exploitation, and abuse.
- Empowered and enable to make decision regarding healthy lifestyle and behaviors.
Healthy Filipino Child
What is the main goal of Child Health Programs?
To reduce infant mortality to 15 deaths per 1000 live births (NOH 2017-2022).
PhilHealth benefit package for essential health services of the newborn during the first few days of life.
Newborn Care Package
This follows health practices to newborn care which have been proven to improve health outcomes of the baby.
Essential Newborn Care
What are the first 2 vaccines given to a newborn?
What can we do to improve health outcomes of the baby?
This is a comprehensive newborn screening program.
Newborn Screening Test
If congenital disorders are left untreated this will lead to ___
Mental Retardation and/or Death
R.A. No. 9288: Newborn Screening Act of 2004
Disorders NBS Program detects.
Expanded Newborn Screening or NBS
This is to detect newborn congenital hearing loss.
R.A. No. 9709: Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Act of 2009.
Early detection of hearing impairment avoids: