- BHW = barangay health workers
- MHO = municipal health officer
- shortage of doctors = led to the close down of many rural
hospitals in the Philippines (according to Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan) - "Bopis District" = Philippine Heart Center, Lung Center of
the Philippines and National Kidney and Transplant Institute - Medicalization of hunger = downplays the fact that
the phenomenon of hunger is a social problem,
not a purely medical one.