Health Promotion:
Philippines
By Brooke Edwards, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Emily Mortenson,
and Hope Oudbier
The Philippines
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Location
Population
Poverty
Access
• Education
• Safe Water
• Healthcare
Health Belief Model
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Perception
Prevention
Education
Benefits
Barriers
Health Problems
• “Triple Burden” of disease
• HIV epidemic
• Living on under $2/day
• Life expectancy:
• Low vaccination rates
• Female: 72
• Male: 65
Nursing Diagnoses
• Risk for infection related to deficient knowledge to avoid exposure to
pathogens evidence by bacterial gastroenteritis among the population.
• Risk for non-communicable disease related to lifestyle choice and
knowledge deficit.
Nursing Diagnoses (cont.)
• Risk for infection related to limited defenses against pathogens.
• Deficient knowledge related to limited education and access to
contraception
Food Preparation Safety
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Hand Hygiene
Clean Surfaces
Cleaning Fruits And Vegetables
Cook meats through entirely
Wash surfaces after preparing raw meats
Use Purified water for everything
Clean Water
● Over 30 million people in the
Philippines do not have access to
improved sanitation facilities
● Out of this, 7.8 million people, or
roughly 8 percent of the country's
population don't have access to
sanitation facilities at all
● This leads to open defecation
What Can WE Do?
• Water Purification Education: Boiling water for 15-20 minutes kills
99.9% of all living things and vaporizes most chemicals
• Education: Incorporating this simple yet important important information
in the school system
• Hold clinics with demonstrations on how to purify water
• With using filters and having more access to clean water children should
be able to have cloth diapers leading to better control of feces
• Sewage management
Non-Communicable Diseases
• Accountable for more than half of deaths
• Are preventable through lifestyle changes
• Heart and vascular problems a third of all deaths.
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Malignant neoplasm
• Hypertension exacerbates many diseases
Hypertension
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Hospital admissions
Treatment reduces disease risks
PhilHealth coverage
Lifestyle changes need to be made
Lifestyle Changes
• Tobacco
• Diet changes
• Physical activity
Communicable Disease
• 8 of the 10 leading causes of morbidity in 2008
• Acute lower respiratory tract infection and pneumonia, acute watery
diarrhea, bronchitis/broncholitis, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria, acute
febrile illness and dengue fever
Malaria
• A parasitic mosquito-borne disease that causes fever, chills, and flu-like
symptoms
• Causes severe complications and fatality if left untreated.
• 74% decrease in the number of cases
• Possible eradication by 2020.
• 9,552 cases were reported in 2012
Eradication of Malaria
• Vector control
• Surveillance
• Early diagnosis and treatment
• Health education
Maternal and Pediatric Health Care
• Maternal Mortality (Goodwin)
• % attendance of skilled birth attendant (Goodwin)
• Deficient Knowledge
Problems Affecting Maternal Healthcare
• Implementations to help maternal education
• Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (Maternal, Newborn, and Child
Health)
• Armed conflict and how it affects maternal health (Goodwin)
Conclusion
By 2020 we will have these goals accomplished
• Well known water purification methods
• Evidence of proper food preparation safety
• Evidence of decreased hypertension by lifestyle changes
• Decreased prevalence of communicable disease due to increased
defences
• 30% maternal health clinics and 25% increased skilled birth attendants
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