Department of Health(DOH)

June 11, 2018 Dear Djune Furio, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated May 20, 2018 11:45:51 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Morbidity and mortality hypertension for Year 2017. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. However, please note that as of the moment, we are only able to provide the 2016 data for Hypertension morbidity as the Field Health Service Information System 2017 Annual Report is still undergoing data validation while the recent available Annual Health Statistics report was from 2014. To view the data on 2016 Hypertension morbidity, kindly visit the DOH website at (doh.gov.ph). Once you are in the website, kindly look for the "Information Sources" tab then select "publications" and "Serials". From there, select the "FHSISI Annual Report" category then choose 2016. The data we are referring to is in Chapter 4 Notifiable Disease (a.) Leading causes of morbidity. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Undersecretary Lilibeth C. David, Chair of Data Governance Oversight Committee/ DOH Central Appeals and Review Committee, at [email protected] .Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Dr. Kenneth Ronquillo FOI Decision Maker