This document contains certain provisions of the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan for 1987-92. Chapter 7 covers health, nutrition, and family planning (FP) and describes objectives in these areas as 1) improving the health and nutritional status of the population, 2) working toward achieving health for all by the year 2000 through primary health care, and 3) promoting FP to improve family well-being. Specific strategies include 1) improving provision and use of accessible, appropriate, and adequate services, especially to the poor and to high-risk groups; 2) integrating efforts within the planning sectors and ensuring multisectoral consistency and support; 3) promoting individual and collective responsibility for health, nutrition, and FP; 4) placing greater reliance on indigenous resources and technology; 5) strengthening and sustaining effective collaboration with the private sector; 6) placing greater emphasis on measures which promote good health and nutrition: 7) strengthening promotion of FP as a component of comprehensive maternal and child health; 8) enhancing the status and role of women as program benefactors and implementors; 9) increasing government allocations to the health, nutrition, and FP sector; 10) strengthening information and research-based decision-making and implementation; 11) developing manpower; and 12) improving regulations.
来源:Annual review of population law 1988 年 15卷