The proposed alternative budget for health promo and integrative healthcare by the ABI Sub-health Cluster

1. SUMMARY OF ALTERNATIVE BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR HEALTH
Budget Item NEP 2014
ABI
Proposal
Variance
(ABI Proposal
less NEP)
A BILLION FOR HEALTH PROMOTION:
 Public Awareness Campaign & Capacity Building for Health Workers: Healthy Lifestyle
& Well-being, Preventive Health Care through Organic Food, Healthy Eating Options, Physical Exercise
and Activities, Tobacco and Alcohol, Nutritional healing, Alternative Healing Modalities (Traditional,
Indigenous and Oriental), Breastfeeding, HR-based Health Care, Special health needs of vulnerable groups:
children, elderly, PWDs, women, indigenous peoples, victims of disasters, etc.
 Institutionalization of Traditional & Alternative Medical Practices: research and
development, standardization of herbal medicine preparations, and improvement of popular education
materials.
MFO 1: Health Promotion 165,227,000 1,000,000,000 843,773,000
MFO 1: Phil. Institute for Traditional
and Alternative Health Care
49,800,000 60,000,000 10,200,000
STRENGTHENING PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS ON HIV/AIDS
 Improved access and availability of HIV/AIDS services, including treatment, to key populations
 Elimination of barriers to life-saving services using community-based methodologies.
 Strengthening of systems and enabling policy environment around the issue of HIV/AIDS
MFO 1: Other infectious disease and
emerging and re-emerging diseases
including HIV/AIDS, dengue, food and
water-borne diseases
781,702,000 979,115 197,413,000
MFO 1: Operations of Phil. National
AIDS Council (PNAC)
12,201,000 37,201,000 25,000,000
CREATING JOBS FOR EFFECTIVE HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY
 Doubling DOH’s HHR deployment
 Creation of National HHR Registry
 Improvement and Strengthening of HHR Monitoring and Evaluation
MFO 1: Implementation of Doctors to
the Barrios and Rural Health Practice
Program
2,969,867,000 5,939,734,000 2,969,867,000
MFO 1: Health Human Resource
Policy Development & Planning
 HHR National Registry (15 Million)
 HHR Monitoring and Eval (2 M)
71,101,000 88,101,000 17,000,000
ENSURING BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 Strengthening children’s immune system through promotion of breastfeeding; formation of
breastfeeding vanguards
 Improved interventions to health care needs of children and youth, including concerns on
teenage pregnancy

2.  Addressing acute child malnutrition through piloting of community-managed acute malnutrition
(MAM) management in poorest municipalities. Interventions may start with NAPC-identified
poorest municipalities or in 5 poorest regions (.ARMM, CARAGA, CAR, Eastern Visayas,
SOKSCARGEN)
MMFO 1: Expanded Program on
Immunization
 Scrap allocation for Rotavirus Vaccine (-
P500 M)
 Additional allocation for vaccines on
neglected Tropical Diseases (P 100 M)
2,841,933,000 2,941,433,000 (400,000,000)
MFO 1: Family Health and Responsible
Parenthood
 Breastfeeding Vanguards (500 M)
 Adolescents and Children (200 M)
2,842,666,000 3,542,666,000 700,000,000
National Nutrition Council
 Community MAM management (P
1.5 M/mun x 609 municipalities
336,198,000 1,249,698,000 913,500,000
ENSURING ACCESS OF THE POOR TO FREE AND QUALITY PUBLIC
HOSPITAL SERVICE
 Doubling support to government specialty hospitals based on 2013 allocations. Specialty
hospitals attached to the DOH, especially the Phil. Children’s Medical Center and Lung Center
of the Philippines, have gained reputation as Poor Peoples hospital.
Philippine Children’s Medical Center
 2013 level: Ph 345 M
345,000,000 690,000,000 345,000,000
Lung Center of the Philippines
 2013 level: Ph173.4 M
173,400,000 346,800,000 173,400,000
National Kidney and Transplant
Institute
 2013 level: P 202. 865 M
189,000,000 405,730,000 216,730,000
Philippine Heart Center
 2013 level: P 187 M
372,000,000 374,000,000 2,000,000
ADDRESSING FRAGMENTATION AND INEFFICIENCIES IN THE PUBLIC
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
 Formulation of a National Public Health Sector Strategy and Plan that that adheres to human
rights-based approach to health, and with emphasis on low-cost, high impact interventions such
as primary health care, prevention and promotions of healthy lifestyle and well-being, etc.
MFO 3 : Health Policy Development,
including Essential National Health
Research
47,557,000 60,000,000 12,443,000
TOTAL PROPOSED AUGMENTATION (PhP): 6,026,326,000