Volunteer youth leaders for Health - Philippines: Providing a mechanism for youth empowerment towards advocacy for birth defects prevention and care
Acta Medica Philippina
; : 167-174, 2017.
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@#<p style="text-align justify;">The Volunteer Youth Leaders for Health-Philippine(VYLH- Philippines) is a national youth network established in 2009 as an model on how to organized young women and men into a national force that promotes self-learnings, independence,personal growth and sustained public health change from the grassroots level to up.Formed under the aegis of the University of the Philippines Manila and the department of health,the VYLH- Philippines has focused its activities in the past eight years on helping reduce mortality and disability from congenital disorder through awareness program and support for policy development.This paper describes in details the organization and extraordinary accomplishment of the VYLH- Philippines to date.</p>
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Main subject:
Philippines
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Policy Making
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Awareness
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Volunteers
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Organizations
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Public Health
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Acta Medica Philippina
Year:
2017
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Article