Healthy Pilipinas website reaches new heights, continuing to provide health information to Filipinos
by The Manila Times
Mar 06, 2023 12:02 am
ESTABLISHED at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Healthy Pilipinas website (www.healthypilipinas.ph) has continued to expand in terms of reach and number of articles, moving closer to its vision of being a 'unified data platform for health promotion' - in other words, the online portal for timely and trusted health knowledge for all Filipinos.
'There is a need to provide timely and accurate health information, especially now, not just because of the pandemic, but because it is too easy to be misinformed on social media,' DoH's Dr. Beverly Lorraine Ho said in October 2021 at the launch of a website that is managed by the DoH's Health Promotion Bureau and supported by the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) and United States Agency for International Development (USAid).
The Healthy Pilipinas website has served as a vehicle to promote various DoH events along with the "Seven Healthy Habits campaign, complementing a burgeoning social media presence that includes the Healthy Pilipinas Facebook page, DoH Twitter account, and DoH Viber community.
Already have an active account? Log in here to continue
reading.
Or Subscribe
to the Premium
Subscription plan to access this subscriber-exclusive article.