Founder and Chairperson
| Selected winner: | Health Futures Foundation, Inc. |
| Solution name: | Post-Haiyan Integrated Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Program in Salcedo, Eastern Samar |
| Origin of the winner: | Philippines |
Health Futures Foundation, Inc. (HFI) is a non-stock, non-profit, non-government organization whose mission is to empower marginalized families and local government in achieving access, quality and equity in health and social development through actual and virtual communities of wellness. HFI envisions a Philippines where the marginalized achieve and sustain optimum health and development.
Post-Haiyan Integrated Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Program in Salcedo, Eastern Samar
The reconstruction of the Municipality of Salcedo's health system after Haiyan and the reduction in the the burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) involved innovative strategies like a municipality-wide active screening and follow-up, a community-based integrative approach with universal health care coverage, health access passport cards, community volunteer NCD Health Ambassadors, and strong linkages with the local government and private sector. The project was later hailed by the Salcedo local government unit and the communities to have provided access to quality and holistic intervention to NCD patients in Salcedo by empowering NCD patients with the help of medical management, health promotion and health education, and the use of traditional medicine. The project enabled the local government unit to pass health ordinances in support of the project, increase budget for health, and integrate the NCD program into the regular health services of the rural health unit.
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