VISION BY 2030

A global leader for attaining better health outcomes, competitive and responsive health care system, and
equitable health financing.

MISSION

To guarantee equitable, sustainable and quality health for all Filipinos, especially the poor, and to lead the
quest for excellence in health.

HEALTH CALENDAR 2017

JANUARY DATE
National Deworming Month (Pre-school and School-age Children)
Schistosomiasis Awareness Month
Liver Cancer and Viral Hepatitis Awareness and Prevention Month
ZERO Waste Month National
Cancer Consciousness Week
Autism Consciousness Week
Goiter Awareness week
World Leprosy Day

FEBRUARY
Philippine Heart Month
Oral Health Month
National Health Insurance Program Month
National Down Syndrome Consciousness Month
National Mental Retardation Week
National Awareness Week for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and
Exploitation
Leprosy Control Week
National Rare Disease Week

MARCH

Rabies Awareness Month

International Women's Month
Interational Ear Care Day
International Women's Day
World TB Day

APRIL
National Hemophilia Awareness Month
Garantisadong Pambata Week
World Immunization Week
Head and Neck Consciousness Week
World Health Day
National Hemophilia Day
World Malaria Day

MAY
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Road Safety Month
Hypertension Awareness Month
Safe Motherhood Week
AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day
World No Tobacco Day

JUNE
Dengue Awareness Month
National Kidney Month
National No Smoking Month
Safe Kids Week
National Safe Kids Week
National Safe Kids Week
National Poison Prevention Week
World Blood Donor Day
ASEAN Dengue Day
DOH Anniversary
National Patient Safety Day
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

JULY
Deworming of School Children
National Blood Donors Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Schistosomiasis Awarenss Month
National Allergy Day
World Population Day
National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week Round 1

AUGUST
Family Planning Month Celebration
National Adolescent Immunization Month
National Lung Month
National Tuberculosis Awareness Month
National Breastfeeding Awareness Month
Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Week
National Hospital Week
ASEAN Week
Philippine National Health Research System Week
White Cane Safety Day
National Tuberculosis Day

SEPTEMBER
Generics Awareness Month
National Epilepsy Awareness Month
National Suicide Prevention Week
World Suicide Prevention Day
World Rabies Day

OCTOBER
National Newborn Screening Week
Filipino Elderly Week
National Mental Health Week
Garantisadong Pambata WeekWorld Sight Day
Bone and Joint Awareness Week
Health Education Week
National Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder Awareness Week
Food Safety Awareness Week
World Sight Day
World Health Mental Day
Global Handwashing Day
World Psoriasis Day

NOVEMBER
National Children's Month
Filariasis Awareness Month
Traditional and Alternative Health Care Month
Malaria Awareness Month
National Skin Disease Detection and Prevention Week
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Awareness Week
Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Week
National Consciousness Week Against Counterfeit Medicine
National Consciousness Day for the Elimination of VAWC
(Republic Act No. 103398)
Population and Development Week World Toilet Day
18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW)
National Food Fortification Day
World Diabetes Day
World Toilet Day

DECEMBER
Firecrakers Injury Prevention Month
Linggo ng Kabataan
World AIDS Day
International Day of Persons with Disabilities in the Philippines
Ear, Nose and Throat Consciousness Week
National Health Emergency Preparednes Day
National Youth Health Day

1. Continue and maintain current macroeconomic policies, including fiscal, monetary, and trade policies.
2. Institute progressive tax reform and more effective tax collection, indexing taxes to inflation.
A tax reform package will be submitted to Congress by September 2016.
3. Increase competitiveness and the ease of doing business. This effort will draw upon successful models
used to attract business to local cities
(e.g., Davao) and pursue the relaxation of the Constitutional restrictions on foreign ownership, except as
regards land ownership,
in order to attract foreign direct investment.
4. Accelerate annual infrastructure spending to account for 5% of GDP, with Public-Private Partnerships
playing a key role.
5. Promote rural and value chain development toward increasing agricultural and rural enterprise
productivity and rural tourism.
6. Ensure security of land tenure to encourage investments, and address bottlenecks in land management and
titling agencies.
7. Invest in human capital development, including health and education systems, and match skills and
training to meet the demand
of businesses and the private sector.
8. Promote science, technology, and the creative arts to enhance innovation and creative capacity towards
self-sustaining, inclusive development.
9. Improve social protection programs, including the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer program, to
protect the poor
against instability and economic shocks.
10. Strengthen implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law to enable
especially poor couples
to make informed choices on financial and family planning.