Health - Matches

We assess the short-term impacts of the Doctors-to-the-Barrios (DTTB), a national physician deployment program in the Philippines that augments the su..

The burden of healthcare costs varies across age, sex, location, and socioeconomic status, but the elderly, women, rural, and poorer Filipinos are mor..

From 2018 to 2021, the Department of Health (DOH), with assistance from United States Agency for International Development-Health Policy Plus (USAID-H..

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and relevant stakeholders must prioritize raising the number of accredited hospital beds in L..

#PIDSInfoBits: Alam niyo ba na hindi lahat ng health facilities na pinupuntahan ng mga 4Ps beneficiaries ay may sapat na serbisyo? Kabilang sa mga ka..

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation’s (PhilHealth) membership-to-population coverage in the poorest provinces is only a little over half of ..

The government should revisit policies and processes under the Sin Tax Reform Act of 2012 (Republic Act [RA] 10351) to ensure that tax revenues are us..

The passage of the UHC law in 2019 mandated the creation of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Program to identify and recommend the most cost-eff..

This issue of the Economic Policy Monitor (EPM) highlights the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s marginalized a..

The Philippines has been a major source of female domestic labor in East Asia. The migration of Filipino female household service or domestic workers ..

The last issue of the Development Research News (DRN) this 2022 features articles from presentations during the 8th Annual Public Policy Conference (A..

In this study, a spatiotemporal analysis of trends and disparities in health service coverage indicators was conducted using PhilHealth data on insura..

This study provides new evidence of the heterogeneous impact of the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer (CCT) program designed to improve hum..

The Sin Tax Reform Act (STRA) of 2012 (RA 10351) and its amendments paved the way to revisit excise taxation for sin products, such as tobacco, alcoho..

Kumusta, mga ka-PIDS! Narito ang #PIDSFactFriday ngayong linggo, ukol sa kahirapan sa bansa.   Kumpara sa mga may-kaya, mas maraming mahi..