CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 427. The informal sector is a highly heterogeneous group. This should be considered when developing a comprehensive social protection strategy, be it in the area of expansion of coverage under the national security system or propagation of innovative schemes. Needs and capacities are as varied as there are varied groups. There is a need to identify, particularly, those groups that are difficult to organize for assistance. 428. Women entrepreneurs need technical and capital assistance if they were to go beyond microenterprises. 429. There is also a need to review the situation of domestic helpers towards giving them appropriate training to elevate their position as professional workers who can demand more reasonable wages. The implementation of the law for domestic workers is not being adequately monitored in terms of minimum salaries, educational benefits and membership in the SSS. Thus, the adoption of a bill on the Magna Carta for Household Helpers or the “Batas Kasambahay”, a bill that seeks to institutionalize and uplift the minimum working parameters and standards of the household helper industry, needs to be pursued in Congress. Article 12 Equality in Access to Health Equality in the field of health care; access to health care services, including family planning; appropriate and free services pertaining to pregnancy, confinement and post-natal period; adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation 430. Health is a basic human right. Article II, Section 15 of the Constitution provides that the “State shall promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them.” Meanwhile, Article XIII, Section 11 provides that the “State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development. There shall be priority for the needs of the underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women and children.” 431. Women’s health encompasses their physical, mental and social well being throughout their life cycle. It is integrated with concerns about reproductive health, sexuality, gender relations, violence against women, women’s human rights, access to economic resources for health maintenance and the over-all socio-cultural representation and reproduction of women. The status of women’s health impacts not only on the productive capacity of half of the population but also on the health and well-being of the next generation. A. WOMEN’S SITUATION Health care delivery system 432. The health department, the lead agency in health, maintains specialty hospitals, regional hospitals and medical centers. It has a regional field office in every region, a provincial health team made up of representatives to the local health boards and personnel. Private sector involvement in maintaining the people’s health is enormous, ranging from provision of health services in clinics and hospitals to heath insurance; manufacture of drugs, medicines, vaccines, 116