COPAR stands for Community Organizing Participatory Action Research. A social development approach that aims to transform the apathetic, individualistic and voiceless poor into dynamic, participatory and politically responsive community.
Understand COPAR and its steps with this post.

The home visit is a family-nurse contact which allows the health worker to assess the home and family situations in order to provide the necessary nursing care and health related activities. In performing this activity, it is essential to prepare a plan of visit to meet the needs of the client and achieve the best results of desired outcomes.

The family nursing process is the same nursing process as applied to the family, the unit of care in the community.

The Maternal Health Program is a set of actions and services administered by the DOH to aid women before, during and after pregnancy.

Food Fortification Program is the response to the growing micronutrient malnutrition prevalent in the Philippines for the past several years.

The Department of Health has three major roles in the health of the Filipinos: (1) leadership in health; (2) enabler and capacity builder; and (3) administrator of specific services. Read the scheduled activities of the Department of Health this 2012 January Deworming of School Children (Grades 1-6) Round 1 National Cancer Consciousness Week January18-22 Goiter Awareness Week January 24-30 World Leprosy [...]

An essential health care made universally acceptable to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country and afford at every stage of development.

Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population. The leading causes of mortality in the Philippines are a mixture of non-communicable and communicable diseases. Read the facts and statistics regarding the Mortality Rates in the Philippines.