Health - Matches

The last issue of the Development Research News (DRN) this 2020 features articles from presentations during the 6th Development Policy Research Month,..

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have become the major cause of disease burden in the Philippines. In 2019, NCDs accounted for about 70 percent of the ..

#PIDSInfoBits: Did you know that health workers in the Philippines are not evenly distributed across cities and municipalities? In 2015, more than hal..

The third issue of the Development Research News (DRN) centers on the challenges affecting effective service delivery of local government units (LGUs)..

Studies on health decentralization released by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) found major issues in the policy's..

This quarter’s Development Research News (DRN) focuses on some socioeconomic issues confronting the Philippine healthcare system. The banner story h..

The country’s ageing population poses a challenge to the fiscal sustainability of the government’s Universal Health Care (UHC) program.In ..

The Philippines may suffer economic losses between PHP 276.3 billion and PHP 2.5 trillion due to the coronavirus pandemic, a study of state think tank..

The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic that has infected at least 1.2 million people and caused more than 67,000 deaths wo..

The government budget reflects the government’s spending priorities. It is deemed important to assess whether the priorities as outlined in the prop..

A large number of Filipino children have untimely vaccination, a study of state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) reveale..

A study of state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) found that Filipino healthcare professionals are more likely to work i..

The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It uses health expenditure (in per..

The study proposes an analytical framework that examines the effects of fiscal decentralization on health service delivery using difference-in-differe..

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression di..