Impact of Health Programs in SHL Restoration Village

This study aimed to determine the over-all impact of health programs implemented SHL Restoration Village. The study made use of descriptive method and utilized a self-made questionnaire distributed among 50 respondents who are currently residing at SHL Restoration Village in San Jose Sico, Batangas City. To interpret the results, the study used weighted mean and Analysis of Variance which was supported by SPSS version 20.0. Residents of restoration village are aware of health programs implemented in their community. The health programs were extensively implemented in the community. They agreed that there are barriers that affect the effective implementation of health programs in SHL Restoration Village. The respondents assessedthat health programs have impact to them when it comes to maternal and childcare, personal hygiene, family planning, environmental awareness, and the use of herbal medicines. There is highly significant relationship among the awareness of the community, extent of implementation and barriers that affect the implementation of health programs to the impact of health programs in terms of maternal and childcare, personal hygiene, family planning, environmental awareness and use of herbal medicine. It is recommended that barangay health center and provincial health agency may focused on special health services to address those in curative stage health problems of the community which needs expensive medication. Additional facilities may be provided for health care preventive method which will be participated by healthcare workers and other healthcare professionals to address the health problems in the municipality..

Keywords – Health services, SHL restoration village