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(DOH)
Legal Framework:
population at risks,
(c) protect individuals, families, and
health care
3. Administrator of Specific Services
Mission: Ensure
accessibility and
quality health care to
improve the quality
of life of Filipinos,
Vision: Health for all
especially the poor
Filipinos
Objectives:
The attainment by
all peoples of the
highest possible
level of health
Core functions:
• Providing leadership on matters critical to
health and engaging in partnerships
where joint action is needed
• Shaping the research agenda and
stimulating the generation, translation
and dissemination of valuable knowledge
• Setting norms and standards and promoting
and monitoring their implementation
• Articulating ethical and evidence-based
policy options;
• Providing technical support, catalysing
change, and building sustainable
institutional capacity
• Monitoring the health situation and
United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF)
• -the United Nations (UN) body
responsible for the rights of children
• Roles:
- required by the UN Convention to
promote the effective implementation
and to encourage international
cooperation for the benefit of children.
-UNICEF is represented during UN
Conventions and may be invited to
provide expert advice on the
implementation of the convention
Global Structure of UNICEF:
• -International offices:
• New York and Geneva
• -Specialised offices:
• Copenhagen- Supply Division which
manages the supply centres that are
• essential in emergencies
• Florence- Innocenti Research Centre
well- known for its authoritative
• publications on children
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