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Public-Private Partnership
Health ministry & ZFF to bring better health outcomes for the poor
 
More mayors will become more adept in running their local health systems. This is what a newly-launched public-private partnership expects to achieve with the "Health Leadership and Governance Program"(HLGP). The joint undertaking between the Department of Health and the Zuellig Family Foundation will cover 15 regions, 54 provinces, and 609 cities and municipalities all over the country. The 609 local government units (LGUs) were identified as priority areas by the National Anti-Poverty Commission. The program will run from 2013 to 2016.

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Innovative Philanthropy
Innovative Philanthropy: Having intervention that improves health outcomes & sustains gains
 
For David Zuellig, trustee of the Zuellig Family Foundation, the decision to focus on health leadership and local governance to improve the health of the rural poor in the Philippines was logical yet counter-intuitive.
 
Zuellig spoke about the Foundation’s strategy in the session on innovative philanthropy during the Regional World Health Summit in Singapore, the first time the annual meeting was held outside Berlin since it started in 2009.
 
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Partnership to Bring Down MMR in Samar GIDA Towns
It is not statistically significant but something has to be done about it. In Health Secretary Enrique Ona’s keynote message delivered on his behalf by Health Undersecretary David Lozada Jr., the secretary said that they received statistical explanation saying the increase in the ratio of maternal mortality from 162 in 2006 to 221 in 2011 is “statistically insignificant.” But Ona goes on to say, “the fact remains that the figures are there and we have to do something to make it come down as we near the countdown to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.”

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Former Health Chief Named to ZFF Board
The Zuellig Family Foundation recently welcomed former Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral to its board of trustees. She is the lone woman and the second former health chief in the ten-person board.

She brings to Foundation not just her clinical and public health experiences but her vast knowledge as well about the plight of the poor in the country, having been the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) before heading the DOH.
 
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Health Champions in 12 Municipalities Recognized
Two years after expressing their commitment to improve health outcomes in their communities, health champions of 12 partner-municipalities from the second cohort of the Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) showcased their achievements through a colloquium held last October 25 in Dusit Thani, Makati City.

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Samar Health System Improvements get Support from Filipinos in Switzerland
Last September 28, Philippine Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Leslie Baja handed over 5,000 Swiss francs (approximately P223,500) to Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) president Ernesto Garilao.

The money was raised by Filipinos living in Switzerland during a charity event held as part of their Philippine Independence Day celebration in Berne last June 9.

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HEALTH OUTCOMES MONITOR

ZFF aligned its goal to the country's Millennium Development Goals. This is to objectively assess health improvements (or lack of) in its partner-municipalities. Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is given close attention in the monitoring because, as Health Secretary Enrique Ona puts it, "MMR serves as a sentinel information which can be a good gauge of the state of the entire health system."
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