The document discusses several key aspects of health and the environment in the Philippines. It describes the various services provided by health centers in the country, including dental care, reproductive health services, medical clinics, blood donation programs, epidemiology and surveillance, disaster management preparedness, mental health counseling, and pharmacy services. It notes that these services should be made available for free to communities. It also outlines some of the environmental challenges facing the Philippines, such as natural disasters, water-borne diseases, deforestation, pollution, and loss of biodiversity.

3.  Is a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being and not just the absence of
disease or infirmity

11. Dream community Existing community

14. HEALTH CENTER SERVICE FUNCTIONS
Dental Health Program Tooth Extraction
Reproductive Health Care Counseling on family planning
and RH
Medical Morbidity clinic Provision of free medicines
National Voluntary Blood services Blood-letting activities at
Barangay level
Epidemiology and Surveillance
program
Controlling outbreaks like
dengue

15. HEALTH CENTER SERVICE FUNCTIONS
Disaster Management
preparedness Program
Medical Services/assistance
during disaster
Mental Hygiene Adolescent counseling centers
Pharmacy Services Distribution of Medicines to all
health centers

16.  Did you know that the above services must
be made available for FREE in your
community …because they are subsidized by
the government to ensure that your health is
being prote

27.  Water- borne and communicable diseases

44. The Environment of Philippines is prone
to natural disasters,
particularly typhoons, floods, landslides,
volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and
tsunamis, lying as it does astride the
typhoon belt, in the active volcanic
region known as the Pacific Ring of Fire,
and in the geologically unstable region
between the Pacific and Eurasian
tectonic plates

45. The Philippines also suffers major
human-caused environmental
degradation aggravated by a high
annual population growth rate,
including loss of agricultural
lands, deforestation, soil erosion, air
and water pollution, improper disposal
of solid and toxic wastes, loss of coral
reefs, mismanagement and abuse of
coastal resources, and overfishing.

46.  Natural Resources and Biodiversity explain why the
Philippines is a rich country. Putting our home into the
rare list of nations which have both a hotspot and mega
diversity area for over 6000 plant species and also
numerous animal species inhabited this area. However,
despite—or perhaps because of— their richness and
massive importance to the environment and humans as
well, the forests face continuing destruction and
possible extinction.

47.  Deforestation